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My research is currently published in several journals, including Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, American Review of Public Administration and Global Food Security. |
Selected peer-reviewed publications
Fusi, F. (2020 - online). When local governments request access to data: Power and coordination mechanisms across stakeholders. Public Administration Review
There are ongoing efforts to encourage public organizations to use data to enhance their performance and design public policies. Among barriers to data use, public managers report low access to data owned by stakeholders—other city departments, other public agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. A critical research question is how public organizations can design incentives and structures that decrease the time and resources spent to request and obtain access to data. Drawing from resource dependency theory and a contingency‐based approach, this research examines how routinized, formal nonroutinized, and informal coordination mechanisms facilitate access to data from influential groups of stakeholders.
Fusi, F., Feeney, M.K. (2020 - online). Data sharing in small and medium US cities: The role of community characteristics. Public Administration.
This research investigates whether political, social and economic characteristics of local communities are related to data sharing between city departments and businesses and nonprofit organizations. Research about data sharing typically emphasizes managerial, organizational and technological factors in departments, largely neglecting community characteristics. The willingness to share data depends on the relationships between the government and external stakeholders, and these relationships are shaped by the political, social and economic characteristics of local communities. Using data from a 2016 survey of 2,500 department heads in 500 US cities with populations between 25,000 and 250,000, we find that data sharing increases in cities where communities are politically engaged, hold Democratic preferences, and there are higher rates of public sector employment and economic inequality. Data sharing is less likely to occur in communities with higher education and more nonprofit associations
Leroux K., Fusi, F., Brown A., (2020 - online). Assessing e-government capacity to increase voter participation: Evidence from the US. Government Information Quarterly.
One of the great promises of e-democracy is the potential it holds for increasing citizen participation. Much of the research related to this topic has focused on inputs, identifying the tools and technologies of e-democracy, or factors associated with adoption and/or diffusion of these technologies across units of governments or public organizations. By contrast there has been less research examining how these inputs translate into outcomes, or impacts that e-democracy has on changes in civic behavior or citizen engagement. Our study helps fill this knowledge gap by examining the impact that a specific set of information communication technologies (ICTs) have on a common form of civic engagement: voting. This research creates and tests two unique measures, the online election information index (OEII) and the e-registration service index (ERSI) to examine the extent to which local governments offer online information and utilities that help to educate voters and promote turnout.
Fusi, F., Manzella, D., Louafi, S., & Welch, E. (2018). Building Genomics Initiatives and Enabling Data Sharing: Insights from a Multiple Case Studies Investigation. Omics: A journal of integrative biology.
This paper discusses main challenges that new global initiatives in genomics encounter in promoting data sharing across disciplines, countries and sectors. We draw from in-depth interviews with founders, top managers and staff management at seven large-scale, publicly funded genomics initiatives. We identify key challenges for success and we discuss the solutions implemented by the initiatives. Our findings provide guidance to future genomics initiatives and highlight new areas of research for scholars who investigate data sharing practices in genomics.
Other peer-reviewed publications
Feeney, M.K., Fusi, F., Zhang, F., & Camarena, L. (In press). Towards more digital cities? Change in Technology Use and Perceptions across small and medium-sized US cities. Local Government Studies.
Drawing from a multi-year, multi-method national study of government technology use, this paper describes trends and gaps in e-government enactment in medium and small US cities. Specifically, we outline enactment trends of a range of technologies from social media to open data portals, variation across department type, managerial perceptions, and social media use in the workplace. We find that city governments are increasingly adopting and using technology, however, there are significant differences across department type and city size, with smaller cities not yet fully exploring ICTs.
Fusi, F., & Zhang, F. (2018). Social media communication in the workplace: Evidences from public employees’ networks. Review of Public Personnel Administration.
This article explores how public employees use social media tools to communicate within their professional networks and expands our understanding of how social media are entering public sector workplace practices and challenge the overly optimist belief that social media use is intrinsically positive for public organizations.
Best paper award at the 2nd Doctoral Conference of College of Public Service & Community Solutions (ASU)
Fusi, F., Welch, E.W., & Siciliano, M. (2018). Barriers and facilitators of access to biological material for research: the role of institutions and networks. Science and Public Policy.
As result of a USAID-funded study on international networks of collaboration in genomics, this paper proposes a multilevel framework to understand how regulative, organizational and regional institutions, and personal networks shape access to biological materials. Our findings highlight the importance of meso-level institutions and the limited impact of personal ties in a multilayered institutional context.
Fusi, F. & Feeney, M. K. (2017). Electronic monitoring in public organizations: Evidence from US local governments. Public Management Review.
Electronic monitoring is on the rise, but we know little about what factors prompt public managers to adopt electronic monitoring. Focusing on small and medium sized US municipalities, we investigate how organizational, socio-political, and technological factors shape electronic monitoring intensity. Our findings show that electronic monitoring, especially of online activities, is more intense in centralized organizations, organizations that utilize social media, and organizations with higher security concerns. This suggests that electronic monitoring is reinforcing internal control and power structure with possible effects on public employees’ outcomes and technology use.
Welch, E.W., Fusi, F., Louafi, S., & Siciliano, M. (2017). Genetic Resource Policies in International Collaborative Research for Food and Agriculture: A Study of USAID-Funded Innovation Labs. Global Food Security.
Reduction of global food insecurity depends upon the mobilization of genetic diversity for agricultural research and innovation. Yet increased regulation of genetic materials is profoundly affecting the way agricultural research is conducted, particularly international research. This study draws from an international survey of researchers in USAID Feed the Future Innovation Labs to understand how regulations affect access, exchange and use of genetic material within an international collaborative research environment. Although the effects of regulation depend on the research context, transaction costs are increasing and researchers are changing strategies to access genetic material. The new regulatory environment is merging a traditional informal exchange system, perceived to be more open, with a more formal system that sets rules on access and use of genetic materials to address social, economic and environmental goals.
Fusi, F. & Feeney, M. K. (2016). Social Media in the Workplace: Information Exchange, Productivity, or Waste? American Review of Public Administration. doi: 10.1177/0275074016675722
Public managers play a central role in the adoption and smooth implementation of social media tools in the workplace, with local governments increasingly expecting managers to utilize these tools. Nevertheless, we know little about how public managers perceive social media use for work activities and what factors shape such perceptions. Preliminary research shows that social media use in government enhances task efficiency, but it also increases management complexity and workload. Drawing from literature on e-government adoption and use, we find that the interplay of personal and organization use of social media, an organizational culture of innovation, and formal guidance on social media use positively influence perceptions of social media.
Professional reports
E-participation for public managers in small to medium sized cities. Feeney, M. K., Fusi, F., Zhang, F., & Camarena, L. (2018). Dusseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy - Precis. Read the report here.
Contested resource inputs to science: How institutional provisions on the access and use of materials and data affect research collaboration structures and outcomes. Welch, E., Feeney, M. K., Siciliano, M., Fusi, F., Zhang, F. (2017). Final project report, National Science Foundation grant. Available here.
Potential and Emerging Impacts of the Changing Institutional Landscape on the Global Exchange of Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Welch, E., Louafi, S., Fusi, F., Manzella, D. & Siciliano, M. (2017). Report commissioned by the USAID Bureau of Food Security.
Data Sharing, Civic Engagement, and Technology Use in Local Government Agencies: Findings from a National Survey.
Feeney, M. K., Welch, E., Zhang, F., Camarena, L., Cho, S. & Fusi F. (2017). Learn more about this project.
Institutional and Organizational Factors for Enabling Data Access, Exchange and Use Aims for DivSeek.
Welch, E., Louafi, S. & Fusi, F. (2016). Report commissioned by The Global Crop Diversity Trust and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Lean more about this project.
Fusi, F. (2020 - online). When local governments request access to data: Power and coordination mechanisms across stakeholders. Public Administration Review
There are ongoing efforts to encourage public organizations to use data to enhance their performance and design public policies. Among barriers to data use, public managers report low access to data owned by stakeholders—other city departments, other public agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. A critical research question is how public organizations can design incentives and structures that decrease the time and resources spent to request and obtain access to data. Drawing from resource dependency theory and a contingency‐based approach, this research examines how routinized, formal nonroutinized, and informal coordination mechanisms facilitate access to data from influential groups of stakeholders.
Fusi, F., Feeney, M.K. (2020 - online). Data sharing in small and medium US cities: The role of community characteristics. Public Administration.
This research investigates whether political, social and economic characteristics of local communities are related to data sharing between city departments and businesses and nonprofit organizations. Research about data sharing typically emphasizes managerial, organizational and technological factors in departments, largely neglecting community characteristics. The willingness to share data depends on the relationships between the government and external stakeholders, and these relationships are shaped by the political, social and economic characteristics of local communities. Using data from a 2016 survey of 2,500 department heads in 500 US cities with populations between 25,000 and 250,000, we find that data sharing increases in cities where communities are politically engaged, hold Democratic preferences, and there are higher rates of public sector employment and economic inequality. Data sharing is less likely to occur in communities with higher education and more nonprofit associations
Leroux K., Fusi, F., Brown A., (2020 - online). Assessing e-government capacity to increase voter participation: Evidence from the US. Government Information Quarterly.
One of the great promises of e-democracy is the potential it holds for increasing citizen participation. Much of the research related to this topic has focused on inputs, identifying the tools and technologies of e-democracy, or factors associated with adoption and/or diffusion of these technologies across units of governments or public organizations. By contrast there has been less research examining how these inputs translate into outcomes, or impacts that e-democracy has on changes in civic behavior or citizen engagement. Our study helps fill this knowledge gap by examining the impact that a specific set of information communication technologies (ICTs) have on a common form of civic engagement: voting. This research creates and tests two unique measures, the online election information index (OEII) and the e-registration service index (ERSI) to examine the extent to which local governments offer online information and utilities that help to educate voters and promote turnout.
Fusi, F., Manzella, D., Louafi, S., & Welch, E. (2018). Building Genomics Initiatives and Enabling Data Sharing: Insights from a Multiple Case Studies Investigation. Omics: A journal of integrative biology.
This paper discusses main challenges that new global initiatives in genomics encounter in promoting data sharing across disciplines, countries and sectors. We draw from in-depth interviews with founders, top managers and staff management at seven large-scale, publicly funded genomics initiatives. We identify key challenges for success and we discuss the solutions implemented by the initiatives. Our findings provide guidance to future genomics initiatives and highlight new areas of research for scholars who investigate data sharing practices in genomics.
Other peer-reviewed publications
Feeney, M.K., Fusi, F., Zhang, F., & Camarena, L. (In press). Towards more digital cities? Change in Technology Use and Perceptions across small and medium-sized US cities. Local Government Studies.
Drawing from a multi-year, multi-method national study of government technology use, this paper describes trends and gaps in e-government enactment in medium and small US cities. Specifically, we outline enactment trends of a range of technologies from social media to open data portals, variation across department type, managerial perceptions, and social media use in the workplace. We find that city governments are increasingly adopting and using technology, however, there are significant differences across department type and city size, with smaller cities not yet fully exploring ICTs.
Fusi, F., & Zhang, F. (2018). Social media communication in the workplace: Evidences from public employees’ networks. Review of Public Personnel Administration.
This article explores how public employees use social media tools to communicate within their professional networks and expands our understanding of how social media are entering public sector workplace practices and challenge the overly optimist belief that social media use is intrinsically positive for public organizations.
Best paper award at the 2nd Doctoral Conference of College of Public Service & Community Solutions (ASU)
Fusi, F., Welch, E.W., & Siciliano, M. (2018). Barriers and facilitators of access to biological material for research: the role of institutions and networks. Science and Public Policy.
As result of a USAID-funded study on international networks of collaboration in genomics, this paper proposes a multilevel framework to understand how regulative, organizational and regional institutions, and personal networks shape access to biological materials. Our findings highlight the importance of meso-level institutions and the limited impact of personal ties in a multilayered institutional context.
Fusi, F. & Feeney, M. K. (2017). Electronic monitoring in public organizations: Evidence from US local governments. Public Management Review.
Electronic monitoring is on the rise, but we know little about what factors prompt public managers to adopt electronic monitoring. Focusing on small and medium sized US municipalities, we investigate how organizational, socio-political, and technological factors shape electronic monitoring intensity. Our findings show that electronic monitoring, especially of online activities, is more intense in centralized organizations, organizations that utilize social media, and organizations with higher security concerns. This suggests that electronic monitoring is reinforcing internal control and power structure with possible effects on public employees’ outcomes and technology use.
Welch, E.W., Fusi, F., Louafi, S., & Siciliano, M. (2017). Genetic Resource Policies in International Collaborative Research for Food and Agriculture: A Study of USAID-Funded Innovation Labs. Global Food Security.
Reduction of global food insecurity depends upon the mobilization of genetic diversity for agricultural research and innovation. Yet increased regulation of genetic materials is profoundly affecting the way agricultural research is conducted, particularly international research. This study draws from an international survey of researchers in USAID Feed the Future Innovation Labs to understand how regulations affect access, exchange and use of genetic material within an international collaborative research environment. Although the effects of regulation depend on the research context, transaction costs are increasing and researchers are changing strategies to access genetic material. The new regulatory environment is merging a traditional informal exchange system, perceived to be more open, with a more formal system that sets rules on access and use of genetic materials to address social, economic and environmental goals.
Fusi, F. & Feeney, M. K. (2016). Social Media in the Workplace: Information Exchange, Productivity, or Waste? American Review of Public Administration. doi: 10.1177/0275074016675722
Public managers play a central role in the adoption and smooth implementation of social media tools in the workplace, with local governments increasingly expecting managers to utilize these tools. Nevertheless, we know little about how public managers perceive social media use for work activities and what factors shape such perceptions. Preliminary research shows that social media use in government enhances task efficiency, but it also increases management complexity and workload. Drawing from literature on e-government adoption and use, we find that the interplay of personal and organization use of social media, an organizational culture of innovation, and formal guidance on social media use positively influence perceptions of social media.
Professional reports
E-participation for public managers in small to medium sized cities. Feeney, M. K., Fusi, F., Zhang, F., & Camarena, L. (2018). Dusseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy - Precis. Read the report here.
Contested resource inputs to science: How institutional provisions on the access and use of materials and data affect research collaboration structures and outcomes. Welch, E., Feeney, M. K., Siciliano, M., Fusi, F., Zhang, F. (2017). Final project report, National Science Foundation grant. Available here.
Potential and Emerging Impacts of the Changing Institutional Landscape on the Global Exchange of Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Welch, E., Louafi, S., Fusi, F., Manzella, D. & Siciliano, M. (2017). Report commissioned by the USAID Bureau of Food Security.
Data Sharing, Civic Engagement, and Technology Use in Local Government Agencies: Findings from a National Survey.
Feeney, M. K., Welch, E., Zhang, F., Camarena, L., Cho, S. & Fusi F. (2017). Learn more about this project.
Institutional and Organizational Factors for Enabling Data Access, Exchange and Use Aims for DivSeek.
Welch, E., Louafi, S. & Fusi, F. (2016). Report commissioned by The Global Crop Diversity Trust and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Lean more about this project.