Productivity of Czech state administration with focus on IT technology and costs connected with use of modern technologies
| Author: | Bc. Pavel Fuchs |
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| Year: | 2021 - summer |
| Leaders: | Petr Pleticha |
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| Work type: | Bachelors |
| Language: | English |
| Pages: | 53 |
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| Link: | https://dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500.11956/147998 |
| Abstract: | Czech state government is often criticized because of slow implementation of new information technologies (IT). Furthermore, IT-related government contracts are frequently overpriced and the official analyses say only little about the projects’ efficiency. The paper inquiries into relatively homogenous level of local government represented by municipalities of extended competence. These jurisdictions have to guarantee extensive portfolio of services, however they have relative freedom of investment decision making. We used Data Envelopment Analysis and assigned each municipality with efficiency score. We found out that higher investment in IT does not stand for improved efficiency and indicates inefficiencies in public spending. We also described an ambiguous effect of the size of the district and a significant negative effect of amount of clerks. |
