Ali Asker Gündüz
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Dr.
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Gündüz
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Ali Asker
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aliasker.guenduez@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 2852
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Item type:Publication, From patterns to meaning: a mixed-methods framework that integrates computational and qualitative text analysis(2025-09-15); ; Type:journal articleJournal:Quality & QuantityScopus© Citations 9 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The political context of public sector innovation: A critical interpretive synthesis on UkraineInnovation often sparks power struggles, redistributes resources, and challenges entrenched institutional legacies. Yet the role of power dynamics embedded in political contexts, particularly in non-Western countries, in shaping public sector innovation (PSI) has remained underexplored. This study addresses this gap by examining how power dynamics at multiple levels and critical junctures have shaped PSI trajectories over time in Ukraine. Drawing on historical institutionalism and using a context-specific critical interpretive synthesis of 84 studies from 1991 to 2022, we reveal how critical junctures intensified PSI and enabled new innovation priorities. However, these moments were deeply conditioned by existing power dynamics across international, national and subnational political levels. While some innovations contributed to the redistribution of power, others were stalled or fragmented owing to path dependencies. This study makes two primary theoretical contributions: first, it reconceptualizes political context as a dynamic, multilevel arena of vertical and horizontal power contestations that shapes PSI; second, it extends PSI theory by demonstrating how critical junctures operate as temporally bounded periods of constrained agency, cumulatively shaping innovation trajectories. These insights advance our understanding of the complex interplays between political contexts, power dynamics, and temporality in PSI.Type:journal articleJournal:Research PolicyVolume:54Issue:10Scopus© Citations 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Digital innovation strategies in the public sectorDespite the increasing attention on digital innovations in the private sector, little is known about digital innovation strategies in the public sector. This knowledge gap is growing as public sector employees are increasingly embracing new digital tools and ideas. Drawing on rich qualitative data from practitioners in 25 cities across 18 countries, this study analyzes the digital innovation strategies pursued in the public sector, with specific attention placed on digital orientation and the foci of value creation activities. Extending the OECD's Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) framework, we identify four distinct digital innovation strategies in the public sector: enhancement-oriented, anticipatory, adaptive, and persistent. Our findings reveal that enhancement-oriented and persistent strategies are the most prevalent, reflecting a strong focus on internal value creation through process optimization and long-term organizational change. In contrast, adaptive and anticipatory strategies are less common. We find a near-equal prevalence of incremental and transformational goals, indicating balanced strategic orientation. Our findings also suggest that practitioners often employ multiple strategies, reflecting the multifacetedness of driving digital innovation in the public sector. We provide valuable insights into various activities linked to the four identified innovation strategies, ending with a comprehensive discussion of our findings, conclusions, study limitations, and future research directions.Type:journal articleJournal:Research PolicyVolume:54Issue:8Scopus© Citations 21 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Government-university collaboration on smart city and smart government projects: What are the success factors?(2024-01); ; Scopus© Citations 27 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Strategically constructed narratives on artificial intelligence: What stories are told in governmental artificial intelligence policies?What stories are told in national artificial intelligence (AI) policies? Combining the novel technique of structural topic modeling (STM) and qualitative narrative analysis, this paper examines the policy narratives in 33 countries’ AI policies. We uncover six common narratives that are dominating the political agenda concerning AI. Our findings show that the policy narratives' saliences vary across time and countries. We make several contributions. First, our narratives describe well-grounded, supportable conceptions of AI among governments, and show that AI is still a fairly novel, multilayered, and controversial phenomenon. Building on the premise that human sensemaking is best represented and supported by narration, we address the applied rhetoric of governments to either minimize the risks or exalt the opportunities of AI. Second, we uncover the four prominent roles governments seek to take concerning AI implementation: enabler, leader, regulator, and/or user. Third, we make a methodological contribution toward data-driven, computationally-intensive theory development. Our methodological approach and the identified narratives present key starting points for further research.Type:journal articleJournal:Government Information QuarterlyVolume:40Issue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The role of trust in the adoption of cooperative arrangement types in e-credentials marketsThe interest in digital identities has increased considerably in academia and practice in recent years. This can be seen by the many electronic identity projects worldwide and the numerous published studies that provide insightful narratives and descriptive case findings about success factors and barriers to the adoption of national authentication infrastructures. In this paper, we take a closer look to the role of trust on the design and implementation of a nation-wide e-credential market. We argue that trust in political and economic institutions can be an important factor to explain differences in the chosen cooperative arrangement which can range from monopolistic, purely state-controlled e-credential markets, to polypolistic, decentralized e-credential markets where also private vendors offer state recognized e-ID on their own or in partnership with the government. Following an inductive reasoning process, we develop three testable propositions which may inspire further empirical research and offer practitioners a new angle to rethink e-credential markets in the light of citizen trust in political and economic institutions.Type:journal articleJournal:Information PolityVolume:28 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The role of dynamic managerial capabilities and organizational readiness in smart city transformationThis study focuses on the dynamic managerial capabilities of smart city managers and the organizational readiness of a city administration required to drive smart city transformation. After reviewing the literature, we conducted semi-structured interviews with smart city managers in 40 smart cities. We identified five dynamic capabilities that effectively contribute to smart city transformation: seizing, sensing, innovation, integrative, and empowering capability. Our analysis also reveals that a city administration's organizational readiness plays a critical role in these transformative processes and relies on four factors: innovation readiness, resource readiness, a participatory and collective mindset, and strategic readiness. Based on our findings, we suggest a theoretical framework composed of 10 propositions that describe the mutual influences of these dynamic managerial capabilities and organizational readiness factors, together with their contributions to smart city transformation. We conclude with a discussion of the limitations and the implications for future research and practice.Type:journal articleJournal:CitiesScopus© Citations 59 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Legitimizing the Smart City Idea: The Case of the #Smarthalle(2020-11-09); ; Many cities are pursuing the goal of becoming a smart city which has far-reaching consequences for the city and its stakeholders. A successful implementation of these smart city initiatives requires a broad legitimacy base. This poses a challenge for cities as creating legitimacy for new ideas is by no means easy. In this article, we explore how a city administration tries to influence the legitimacy of an idea like that of a smart city. Based on a case study about the #Smarthalle, a project of the city of St. Gallen different legitimization strategies are presented. The results show that legitimization efforts are primarily directed at citizens and administrative staff. The analysis reveals that creating a vision, making the idea tangible and mobilizing allies are key strategies for legitimizing smart city initiatives and related projects. onsequently, the #Smarthalle was designed as a place to exchange ideas, experience smart technologies and directly connect the administration and the citizens.Type:journal articleJournal:Swiss Yearbook of Administrative ScienceDOI:10.5334/ssas.149 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Technological frames in public administration: What do public managers think of big data?Being among the largest creators and gatherers of data in many countries, public administrations are looking for ways to harness big data technology. However, the de facto uses of big data in the public sector remain very limited. Despite numerous studies aiming to clarify the term big data, for many public managers, it remains unclear what this technology does and does not offer public administration. Using the concept of technological frames, we explore the assumptions, expectations, and understandings that public managers possess in order to interpret and make sense of big data. We identify nine big data frames, ranging from inward-oriented techno-enthusiasts to outward-oriented techno-skeptics, each of which characterizes public managers' specific viewpoints relating to the introduction of big data in public administrations. Our findings highlight inconsistencies between different perceptions and reveal widespread skepticism among public managers, helping better understand why the de facto uses of big data in the public sector remain very limited.Type:journal articleJournal:Government Information QuarterlyVolume:37Issue:1Scopus© Citations 76 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, How smart can government be? Exploring barriers to the adoption of smart governmentType:journal articleJournal:Information PolityVolume:2019Issue:24Scopus© Citations 82