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Working papers
Open Government Data for Environmental Justice: A Work in Progress for Most US States.
Fusi, F., Zhang, F. & Liang, J. Presented at APPAM
Open government data (OGD) represents a key resource for environmental justice (EJ) policy making which is characterize by great power imbalance and information asymmetries between government agencies, affected populations, and advocacy and interest groups. This paper investigates the implementation of OGD across the 50 US states. We contend that full implementation of OGD should align with a user-focused approach (Dawes et al., 2016) where not only do public organizations provide OGD to citizens but they also remove burdens associated with the access, use, and analysis of raw data. Along these lines, we developed the EJ OGD implementation score that considers key characteristics of OGD for the user, including the degree of accessibility, completeness, and usability of data provided by the state governments. We find that only 1 out of 5 states offer OGD for EJ in a way that allows an average citizen to answer an EJ-relevant question: How exposed my neighborhood is to social and environmental vulnerability?
A theoretical perspective on social capital in open communities.
Fusi, F., Welch, E. & Louafi, S. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference
Leveraging qualitative data collected from a UN project, this paper investigates how digitization of physical information shape new forms of organizations within science, particularly open communities . Open communities are based on voluntary participation and contribution of members, which make them a very different setting than traditional organizations, where formal institutions and agreements bound interactions among members, collaboration and sharing. We apply a social capital framework to look at how the structural, cognitive and relational dimensions of social capital interact and support long-term survival of open communities
How technological vulnerability affects organizational risk propensity: the moderating effect of technical and political information.
Fusi, F., Jung, H. & Welch, E. Presented at APPAM 2018.
Public organizations at all levels have adopted and implemented new technologies including social media, sensor and surveillance systems, Intranet, and e-services (Feeney & Brown, 2017; Fusi & Feeney, 2017; Mergel, 2013). But as technology becomes an integral part of interconnected government activities, public organizations face greater exposure to damaging events, such as risk of attacks by hacking groups and data breaches (Greening & Johnson, 1996). Yet public management scholarship has dedicated little discussion on how technological vulnerability affects top managers’ behavior and organizational performance. Of particular interest in this paper, how vulnerability can affect organizational risk propensity (ORP) defined as an organizational tendency to undertake new efforts to address shortcomings or solve problems in new ways and the moderating role of political and technical information. We find that top managers who possess information about legal requirements for participation and unsanctioned disclosure of information tend to respond to vulnerability by encouraging new forms of problem solving. By contrast, lack of information further increases the negative impact of vulnerability on risk propensity.
Blockchains for Global Access, Use and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources and Digital DNA Sequences: From Technology Design to Trust.
Jung, H., Fusi, F., Welch, E., Louafi, S., & Manzella, D. In preparation for the ‘Blockchain, Public Trust and Public Law’ Conference
This research investigates the link between trust and blockchain design. We start by discussing issues of trust in the current access, use, and exchange of biological material across individuals and towards institutions and the scientific community as a whole. Then, we propose a framework to understand how the implementation of blockchain technology might impact trust among individuals and towards institutions and society of the scientific communities.
Open Government Data for Environmental Justice: A Work in Progress for Most US States.
Fusi, F., Zhang, F. & Liang, J. Presented at APPAM
Open government data (OGD) represents a key resource for environmental justice (EJ) policy making which is characterize by great power imbalance and information asymmetries between government agencies, affected populations, and advocacy and interest groups. This paper investigates the implementation of OGD across the 50 US states. We contend that full implementation of OGD should align with a user-focused approach (Dawes et al., 2016) where not only do public organizations provide OGD to citizens but they also remove burdens associated with the access, use, and analysis of raw data. Along these lines, we developed the EJ OGD implementation score that considers key characteristics of OGD for the user, including the degree of accessibility, completeness, and usability of data provided by the state governments. We find that only 1 out of 5 states offer OGD for EJ in a way that allows an average citizen to answer an EJ-relevant question: How exposed my neighborhood is to social and environmental vulnerability?
A theoretical perspective on social capital in open communities.
Fusi, F., Welch, E. & Louafi, S. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference
Leveraging qualitative data collected from a UN project, this paper investigates how digitization of physical information shape new forms of organizations within science, particularly open communities . Open communities are based on voluntary participation and contribution of members, which make them a very different setting than traditional organizations, where formal institutions and agreements bound interactions among members, collaboration and sharing. We apply a social capital framework to look at how the structural, cognitive and relational dimensions of social capital interact and support long-term survival of open communities
How technological vulnerability affects organizational risk propensity: the moderating effect of technical and political information.
Fusi, F., Jung, H. & Welch, E. Presented at APPAM 2018.
Public organizations at all levels have adopted and implemented new technologies including social media, sensor and surveillance systems, Intranet, and e-services (Feeney & Brown, 2017; Fusi & Feeney, 2017; Mergel, 2013). But as technology becomes an integral part of interconnected government activities, public organizations face greater exposure to damaging events, such as risk of attacks by hacking groups and data breaches (Greening & Johnson, 1996). Yet public management scholarship has dedicated little discussion on how technological vulnerability affects top managers’ behavior and organizational performance. Of particular interest in this paper, how vulnerability can affect organizational risk propensity (ORP) defined as an organizational tendency to undertake new efforts to address shortcomings or solve problems in new ways and the moderating role of political and technical information. We find that top managers who possess information about legal requirements for participation and unsanctioned disclosure of information tend to respond to vulnerability by encouraging new forms of problem solving. By contrast, lack of information further increases the negative impact of vulnerability on risk propensity.
Blockchains for Global Access, Use and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources and Digital DNA Sequences: From Technology Design to Trust.
Jung, H., Fusi, F., Welch, E., Louafi, S., & Manzella, D. In preparation for the ‘Blockchain, Public Trust and Public Law’ Conference
This research investigates the link between trust and blockchain design. We start by discussing issues of trust in the current access, use, and exchange of biological material across individuals and towards institutions and the scientific community as a whole. Then, we propose a framework to understand how the implementation of blockchain technology might impact trust among individuals and towards institutions and society of the scientific communities.