Examining social capital and individual motivators to explain the adoption of online citizen participation

Naranjo-Zolotov, Mijail; Oliveira, Tiago; Cruz-Jesus, Frederico; Martins, José; Gonçalves, Ramiro; Branco, Frederico; Xavier, Nuno

doi:10.1016/j.future.2018.09.044

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“…The process of motivation is complex. It can be defined from various points of view [112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119][120][121]. The results of the research of Sarnovičs [122], using the sample set of respondents with university degree showed that opportunities for career growth and prestige are important factors motivating employees.…”

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Knowledge and Human Capital as Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Human Resource Management

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The ability to do business successfully and to stay on the market is a unique feature of each company ensured by highly engaged and high-quality employees. Therefore, innovative leaders able to manage, motivate, and encourage other employees can be a great competitive advantage of an enterprise. Knowledge of important personality factors regarding leadership, incentives and stimulus, systematic assessment, and subsequent motivation factors are parts of human capital and essential conditions for effective development of its potential. Familiarity with various ways to motivate leaders and their implementation in practice are important for improving the work performance and reaching business goals. Pearson’s chi-square test is used to test correlation between the motivation factors relating to career aspiration and education. Following the research results, the fact that there is dependence between the motivation factors relating to career aspiration and completed education can be stated. The motivation factors relating to career aspiration are important, even very important for highly educated employees and employees with upper secondary education. Following the research results, the fact that the requirements and expectations relating to career aspiration are more demanding when the education completed by employees is higher is confirmed.

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“…In turn, a precondition for CE is the existence of SC (Zlatareva, 2008), since highly attached people are more willing to work collectively to reach a desired goal (Brown et al, 2002). Indeed, recent studies asserted that social capital is positively related to civic engagement (Chan, 2018) and partially impacts e-participation (Naranjo-Zolotov et al, 2019). Interestingly, Haywood (2014) positioned sense of place scholarship as a crucial resource to the better understanding of public participation in scientific research.…”

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Place and city: toward a geography of engagement

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The relationship between sense of place, social capital and civic engagement has been studied in different disciplines. However, their association has been less examined, and their spatial relationship has been analyzed even less. This study contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between these three concepts (i.e., sense of place, social capital and civic engagement). Furthermore, we analyze the crucial role that the spatial relationship between them plays. Using spatial data collected through a web map-based application, we adopt structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques to assess the repercussion that sense of place has on social capital and how the latter affects civic engagement. We find that sense of place is significant and positively correlated with social capital, while the latter also significantly explains civic engagement at the individual level. Furthermore, we observe a better statistical performance in almost all cases when a spatial relationship between the three constructs exists. Our research leverages SEM techniques, Geographic Information Science (GISc) methods, and participatory methodology to show the spatial connection between sense of place and social capital to explain civic engagement. Deriving and quantifying such meaning allows us to highlight the importance of their spatial dimension in city processes such as participation.

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“…We plan to use the UTAUT model (Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology) [27] to understand how this new eParticipation model will be valued among the citizens who will use it.…”

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The “Tokenization” of the eParticipation in Public Governance: An Opportunity to Hack Democracy

Benítez-Martínez

Torres

Frías

2019

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Currently Distributed Ledger Technologies-DLTs, and especially the Blockchain technology, represent a great opportunity for public institutions to transform the channels of citizen participation and reinvigorate democratic processes. These technologies allow the simplification of processes and provide a strong security management of the data stored in its records, guaranteeing the transmission and public transparency of information. Therefore, the possibility of developing a new citizen governance model using this technology as a BaaS (Blockchain as a Service) platform emerges. G-Cloud solutions would facilitate a fast deployment in the cities and provide scalability to foster the creation of Smart Citizens within the philosophy of Open Government. The development of an eParticipation model that can configure a tokenizable system of the actions and processes that citizens exercise in democratic environments is an opportunity to guarantee greater participation and thus manage more effective local democratic spaces. Therefore, a Blockchain solution in eDemocracy platforms represents a great opportunity to claim a new pattern of management amongst the agents that participate in the public sphere.

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Examining social capital and individual motivators to explain the adoption of online citizen participation

Cited by 46 publications

References 47 publications

Knowledge and Human Capital as Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Human Resource Management

Knowledge and Human Capital as Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Human Resource Management

Place and city: toward a geography of engagement

The “Tokenization” of the eParticipation in Public Governance: An Opportunity to Hack Democracy

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