Benoy Jacob
Biographic Data
| ID | 4398402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benoy Jacob |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benoy |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacob |
| SIGNATURE | JACOB B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6521-2472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pathways to the Making of Prosperous Smart Cities: An Exploratory Study on the Best Practice
In this paper, we examine the understudied issue of the pathways to smart cities. While the extant literature on smart cities offers several insights into what smart cities are, with a few notable exceptions, it has less to say about how they come to be. With this latter question in mind, we identify three pathways to smart cities: (1) a greenfield development pathway, (2) a neighborhood development pathway, and (3) a platform-oriented platform. …
Big Data in the Public Sector: Lessons for Practitioners and Scholars
In this essay, we consider the role of Big Data in the public sector. Motivating our work is the recognition that Big Data is still in its infancy and many important questions regarding the true value of Big Data remain unanswered. The question we consider is as follows: What are the limits, or potential, of Big Data in the public sector? By reviewing the literature and summarizing insights from a series of interviews from public sector Chief Inf…
Beating the Clock: Strategic Management under the Threat of Direct Democracy
This article explores public sector responsiveness to voter‐led initiatives, specifically, the degree to which public managers attempt to lock in resources before they are constrained by a particular initiative. The authors posit that such behavior, which they term “beating the clock,” is a function of the potential impact of the proposed initiative, the degree to which managers can react to the initiative's central issues, and the perceived like…
Re‐thinking local autonomy: Perceptions from four rural municipalities
Led by larger urban municipalities, the current municipal reform agenda in Canada places considerable emphasis on the issue of local autonomy. This article looks at how this agenda might affect smaller rural municipalities, since the assumption seems to be that one can simply re‐size and re‐shape policy prescriptions from urban and suburban contexts to fit rural areas. Drawing on the lessons learned from an eight‐year project titled “Understandin…
Tax Competition Among Municipal Governments: Exit Versus Voice
This research examines the incidence of property and sales tax competition among municipal governments in the Chicago metropolitan region and investigates whether the underlying mechanism is exit or voice. First, the research estimates a model with a spatial lag component that relates each municipality's tax or revenue burden to that of its neighbors, controlling for other factors. The results show that tax competition exists for property taxes, …
Big Data in the Public Sector: Lessons for Practitioners and Scholars
In this essay, we consider the role of Big Data in the public sector. Motivating our work is the recognition that Big Data is still in its infancy and many important questions regarding the true value of Big Data remain unanswered. The question we consider is as follows: What are the limits, or potential, of Big Data in the public sector? By reviewing the literature and summarizing insights from a series of interviews from public sector Chief Inf…
Re‐thinking local autonomy: Perceptions from four rural municipalities
Led by larger urban municipalities, the current municipal reform agenda in Canada places considerable emphasis on the issue of local autonomy. This article looks at how this agenda might affect smaller rural municipalities, since the assumption seems to be that one can simply re‐size and re‐shape policy prescriptions from urban and suburban contexts to fit rural areas. Drawing on the lessons learned from an eight‐year project titled “Understandin…
Tax Competition Among Municipal Governments: Exit Versus Voice
This research examines the incidence of property and sales tax competition among municipal governments in the Chicago metropolitan region and investigates whether the underlying mechanism is exit or voice. First, the research estimates a model with a spatial lag component that relates each municipality's tax or revenue burden to that of its neighbors, controlling for other factors. The results show that tax competition exists for property taxes, …
Tax Competition Among Municipal Governments: Exit Versus Voice
This research examines the incidence of property and sales tax competition among municipal governments in the Chicago metropolitan region and investigates whether the underlying mechanism is exit or voice. First, the research estimates a model with a spatial lag component that relates each municipality's tax or revenue burden to that of its neighbors, controlling for other factors. The results show that tax competition exists for property taxes, …
Re‐thinking local autonomy: Perceptions from four rural municipalities
Led by larger urban municipalities, the current municipal reform agenda in Canada places considerable emphasis on the issue of local autonomy. This article looks at how this agenda might affect smaller rural municipalities, since the assumption seems to be that one can simply re‐size and re‐shape policy prescriptions from urban and suburban contexts to fit rural areas. Drawing on the lessons learned from an eight‐year project titled “Understandin…
Beating the Clock: Strategic Management under the Threat of Direct Democracy
This article explores public sector responsiveness to voter‐led initiatives, specifically, the degree to which public managers attempt to lock in resources before they are constrained by a particular initiative. The authors posit that such behavior, which they term “beating the clock,” is a function of the potential impact of the proposed initiative, the degree to which managers can react to the initiative's central issues, and the perceived like…
Big Data in the Public Sector: Lessons for Practitioners and Scholars
In this essay, we consider the role of Big Data in the public sector. Motivating our work is the recognition that Big Data is still in its infancy and many important questions regarding the true value of Big Data remain unanswered. The question we consider is as follows: What are the limits, or potential, of Big Data in the public sector? By reviewing the literature and summarizing insights from a series of interviews from public sector Chief Inf…
Pathways to the Making of Prosperous Smart Cities: An Exploratory Study on the Best Practice
In this paper, we examine the understudied issue of the pathways to smart cities. While the extant literature on smart cities offers several insights into what smart cities are, with a few notable exceptions, it has less to say about how they come to be. With this latter question in mind, we identify three pathways to smart cities: (1) a greenfield development pathway, (2) a neighborhood development pathway, and (3) a platform-oriented platform. …
Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Data science (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (2 works) · Law (2 works)