What drives the adoption of agile government? Insights from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

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ID6149271
AutoresYvonne Hegele (0000-0003-1567-0317), Aline Stoll (0000-0002-1421-921X)
EditoresCaroline Fischer (0000-0001-5870-4498), Oliver Neumann (0000-0002-0988-9729)
Ano2024
Volume29
Fascículo2
Páginas137-152
Data de publicação2024-05-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInformation Polity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1875-8754 • E-ISSN: 1570-1255
EditoraIOS Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.3233/ip-230055
OpenAlexW4399211606
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas48

Agile approaches are increasingly being used in the public sector. What is driving the adoption of agile ways of working, however, remains unclear. In this paper we ask the following two questions: Which agile approaches are being used in public sector organizations? Under which circumstances do public sector organizations use which agile practices? To analyze these questions, we conducted a standardized survey among over 450 civil servants in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Results from the logistic regression analyses indicate that various forms of agile practices are used in the public sector in all three countries. PSOs operating in constantly changing, uncertain environments are more likely to adopt agile. Political and managerial leadership is vital if the aim is to become more agile as a government. Finally, the results show that tasks that require constant internal and external stakeholder involvement and those that require radically new ideas and ways of working lead PSOs to introduce more comprehensive forms of agile working. This work advances the state of literature by providing the first quantitative analysis of the state of agile in the three countries, developing an analytical framework and measurement of agile government, and analyzing the external circumstances under which agile is being used in the public sector

Agile software development · Business · E-Government · Government (linguistics · Information and Communications Technology · Political science · Process management · Software engineering · Computer Science · Law · Public Administration · Accounting