New Article Alert: Institutional Work in Smart Cities: Interviews with Smart City Managers

Together with Ali Guenduez and co-authors, we just published a new article on the institutional work that smart city managers conduct. The smart city concept itself is in practice mostly a buzzword and under its umbrella, many different types of transformation efforts are summarized. While we know a lot about the theoretical framework and the

Opening access to academic knowledge beyond the usual echo chamber

I am working at a public University with an explicit open access policy and an active funding pipeline to extend open access to academic journals. This includes an open access repository for faculty publications (KOPS – The Institutional Repository of the University of Konstanz). Publications are listed when they come out and after one year

Special issue “The Public Manager” on ‘Government Embraces New Social Media Tools’

“The Public Manager” has just published its Winter 2012 edition. The whole issue focuses on how government embraces new social media tools. Contributors are among others: Andrew Krzmarzick, who talks about how government embraces social media as new communication tools; Scott Horvath (USGS), who presents an overview of the past, present and future of social media

Public Administration Review article: A Three-Stage Adoption Process for Social Media Use in Government

Together with my co-author Professor Stuart Bretschneider I wrote an article that was just published for early view in the Public Administration Review (PAR). In this article, we develop a model of social adoption in the public sector. Here is the abstract: Social media applications are slowly diffusing across all levels of government. The organizational