Public administration management and social services in Czech municipalities: Perceived attitudes of municipal officials with the potential application of the smart city principles

Smékalová, Lenka; Grebeníček, Pavel; Kučera, Filip

dc.title	Public administration management and social services in Czech municipalities: Perceived attitudes of municipal officials with the potential application of the smart city principles	en
dc.contributor.author	Smékalová, Lenka
dc.contributor.author	Grebeníček, Pavel
dc.contributor.author	Kučera, Filip
dc.relation.ispartof	Administratie si Management Public
dc.identifier.issn	1583-9583 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued	2017
utb.relation.volume	2017
utb.relation.issue	29
dc.citation.spage	54
dc.citation.epage	73
dc.type	article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Academy of Economic Studies from Bucharest
dc.relation.uri	http://www.ramp.ase.ro/en/_data/files/articole/2017/29-04.pdf
dc.subject	Cluster analysis	en
dc.subject	Czech Republic	en
dc.subject	Municipalities	en
dc.subject	Public policy	en
dc.subject	Social services	en
dc.description.abstract	Increasing demand for social services connected to the demographic and other changes of the European society presents serious challenge for public policy makers and for the administrative levels most concerned with social services provision. In the Czech Republic this level is represented by municipalities whose attitudes towards the offer of social services in their territory, the providers and the cooperation in this field were surveyed in this paper. Municipal officials’ attitudes to social services differ significantly within the researched sample from a full satisfaction with the present situation in a municipality to a strong dissatisfaction. The paper uses the results of the survey proceed by means of the principal component analysis and cluster analysis to identify the attitudes of the municipal officials in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic and to divide said municipalities into four groups with similar attitudes and issues for which common policy measures may be adopted after more detailed inquiries into their specific issues. Close monitoring, as provided by this paper, presents detailed basis for local policy makers and the further planning of social services network. © 2017, Academy of Economic Studies from Bucharest. All rights reserved.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1007684
utb.identifier.obdid	43876782
utb.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85038099744
utb.source	j-scopus
dc.date.accessioned	2018-01-15T16:31:39Z
dc.date.available	2018-01-15T16:31:39Z
dc.rights	Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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dc.rights.access	openAccess
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Smékalová, Lenka
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Grebeníček, Pavel
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Kučera, Filip
utb.fulltext.affiliation	Lenka SMÉKALOVÁ1, Pavel GREBENÍČEK2, Filip KUČERA3 1 Ing. Lenka Smékalová, Ph.D.; Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin; Czech Republic; smekalova@fame.utb.cz 2 Ing. Pavel Grebeníček, Ph.D.; Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin; Czech Republic; grebenicek@fame.utb.cz 3 Ing. Filip Kučera; Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin; Czech Republic; fkucera@fame.utb.cz
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utb.fulltext.sponsorship	The authors are thankful to the grant no. IGA/FaME/2016/010 which provided financial support for this research
utb.scopus.affiliation	Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic
utb.fulltext.projects	IGA/FaME/2016/010