THE TRANSPARENCY OF THE LOCAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT THROUGH THE MUNICIPALITIES OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Autor (i): Drd. Teodora Monica FULGA
JEL: H70 State and Local Government - General
Cuvinte cheie: municipalities, transparency, e-governance, visibility, strategic planning.
Abstract:
The transparency of the strategic management of the Romanian county capital cities is constantly a topic of debate. It was discussed from the perspective of the public information access offered by the public institutions’ official websites but also from the point of view of the openness of the administration towards the served citizens, bearing in mind the considerations on transparency provided by recent studies on the increasing access to information sources via the Internet. Transparency was assessed not only from the perspective of mandatory legal obligations of the public institutions but also from the point of view of the need to design and implement into practice the strategic planning documents that would effectively involve the stakeholders as literature describes the area of strategic public management. The study brings the supplementary argument of the more performing as well as more transparent administration theory, in historical regions once under Austrian domination compared to regions historically influenced by the Oriental empires. On the other hand, the transparency of the municipalities’ strategic management closely relates to the importance awarded to stakeholders, on a second place being the size of the serviced community and the economic development level.