Impact of Amalgamation on Strategic Planning, ICT capabilities and Institutional Performance
Local government areas in Australia are referred to as local councils. These councils are responsible for local community services such as garbage collection and local road works. This study covers the Sunshine Coast council area and looks at the impact amalgamation of local councils in Australia has on strategic planning and the Information and Communication technologies (ICT) capabilities of the newly merged council. The research looks at this impact in terms of institutional advantage and provides a novel perspective to the mergers and amalgamations research domain. The methodology will be a combination of qualitative and quantitative research approaches with the literature review providing the background and a series of focus groups providing qualitative data from relevant administration staff. The focus groups feedback along with a targeted, mini survey of key decision makers within council will inform the development of the general survey questionnaire which will then be sent out to all admin staff in the council. The results of this questionnaire will be subject to statistical analysis through structural equation modelling. These results will then be related back to the original research questions and to the theoretical framework and specifically to the key variable, namely institutional advantage.
Amalgamations Planning ICT Performance
Oscar Imaz Bishnu Sharma Don Kerr
Faculty of Business University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
国际会议
香港·广州
英文
429-434
2010-07-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）