On Statistical Method-Based Information System for Decision Support of Municipalities

The Influence of Excellence on Municipal Performance: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From the Czech Republic

“…Still, it must be said that improvements over a period of more than 10 years were significantly lower than we expected. These results were also confirmed by Plaček et al (2020), who investigate the effect of fiscal reforms on efficiency of local governments. According to their results, the drivers of improvement vary according to municipality size.…”

“…According to their results, the drivers of improvement vary according to municipality size. With larger municipalities, the main driver of efficiency improvement was the optimum scale, whereas at smaller municipalities the main driver of productivity growth was the better management of resources (Plaček et al, 2020). All results are confirmed by the conclusions (Aiello et al, 2017) that the use of DEA with variable yields with the scale reports higher efficiency than the use of DEA with constant yields from the scale.…”

“…The term "efficiency" started to be promoted in the context of the New Public Management reforms (Pollitt & Bouckaert, 2011) and also during the economic crisis (da Cruz & Marques, 2014;Drew et al, 2015). Efficiency means how well an organization uses resources for public service delivery and the degree to which a system achieves its policy goals (Plaček et al, 2020). In different systems, it has several acronyms, for example, Best Value, 3E, and so on (Plaček et al, 2020a).…”

“…The partial output was provided via an application called WebDear (WebDEAr.fd.cvut.cz). Hammerníková et al (2020) provided a detailed description of the technical details.…”