http://www.mdpi.com/journal/admsci Latest open access articles published in Adm. Sci. at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/admsci http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/2/162 Canada has been regarded as a model global citizen with firm commitments to multilateralism. It has also played important roles in several international health treaties and conventions in recent years. There are now concerns that its interests in health as a foreign policy goal may be diminishing. This article reports on a thematic analysis of key Canadian foreign policy statements issued over the past decade, and interviews with key informants knowledgeable of, or experienced in the interstices of Canadian health and foreign policy. It finds that health is primarily and increasingly framed in relation to national security and economic interests. Little attention has been given to human rights obligations relevant to health as a foreign policy issue, and global health is not seen as a priority of the present government. Global health is nonetheless regarded as something with which Canadian foreign policy must engage, if only because of Canada’s membership in many United Nations and other multilateral fora. Development of a single global health strategy or framework is seen as important to improve intersectoral cooperation on health issues, and foreign policy coherence. There remains a cautious optimism that health could become the base from which Canada reasserts its internationalist status. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/2/162 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CEST Administrative Sciences 2012-04-11 2 2 Article 162 185 2076-3387 Past Fame, Present Frames and Future Flagship? An Exploration of How Health is Positioned in Canadian Foreign Policy 2012-04-11 doi: 10.3390/admsci2020162 Ronald Labonté Vivien Runnels Michelle Gagnon http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/2/148 In the past few years, e-government has been a topic of much interest among those excited about the advent of Web 2.0 technologies. This paper reviews the recent literature concerning Web 2.0, social media, social networking, and how it has been used in the public sector. Key observations include literature themes such as the evolution of social media case studies in the literature, the progress of social media policies and strategies over time, and social media use in disaster management as an important role for government. Other observations include the lack of a tangible goal for e-government, and the idea that significant change is still needed in government culture, philosophy of control, and resource management before broad sustainable success can be achieved in the use of social media. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/2/148 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CEST Administrative Sciences 2012-04-10 2 2 Article 148 161 2076-3387 A Review of Social Media Use in E-Government 2012-04-10 doi: 10.3390/admsci2020148 Michael J. Magro http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/2/135 Rapid population growth, urbanization, and the growing challenges faced by the urban poor require redefining the paradigm for public health interventions in the 21st century, creating new approaches that take urban determinants of health into consideration. The widening disparity between the urban poor and the urban rich further exacerbates health inequities. Existing tools for global governance of urban health risks fall short, particularly in the lack of formal mechanisms to strengthen collaboration and communication among national and municipal agencies and between their local and international non-governmental partners. There is also a clear disconnect between governance strategies crafted at the international level and implementation on the ground. The challenge is to find common ground for global goods and municipal needs, and to craft innovative and dynamic policy solutions that can benefit some of the poorest citizens of the global urban network. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/2/135 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CEST Administrative Sciences 2012-04-05 2 2 Commentary 135 147 2076-3387 Urban Governance of Disease 2012-04-05 doi: 10.3390/admsci2020135 Rebecca Katz Sangeeta Mookherji Morgan Kaminski Vibhuti Haté Julie E. Fischer http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/120 Designing and adopting a global response to address the rise of chronic diseases in both the industrial and developing world requires policymakers to engage in global health diplomacy. In the context of the recent United Nations’ High-Level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases, the paper first reviews the rationale for collective action at the global level to address the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), given the perceived limited cross-border dimensions of NCDs. Secondly, based on the social sciences literature studying policymaking at the domestic and international level, this article highlights recommendations on how to engage during the main phases of the policy process: agenda-setting, policy development and adoption. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/120 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CET Administrative Sciences 2012-03-20 2 1 Article 120 134 2076-3387 Global Responses to Chronic Diseases: What Lessons Can Political Science Offer? 2012-03-20 doi: 10.3390/admsci2010120 Chantal Blouin http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/99 This paper explores leadership as an emergent social process. We begin by discussing and contesting the tradition privileging linear management processes, and offer as a counterpoint accounts of distributed leadership out of which our focus on leadership as a plural process grows. Our concept of leadership as a plural process is enriched by an inquiry into musical ensembles with formal leaders as well as those which are leaderless that find ways of moving collectively towards shared goals. The specific issues that we explore are: personal preparation, expressing readiness to begin, establishing a way of operating, and dealing with unexpected problems as they arise. We conclude by speculating about how these elements could inform our understanding of how leadership arises from teams beyond the musical world. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/99 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CET Administrative Sciences 2012-03-20 2 1 Essay 99 119 2076-3387 Performing Leadership: Observations from the World of Music 2012-03-20 doi: 10.3390/admsci2010099 Ralph Bathurst Donna Ladkin http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/82 Partly as a result of the rapid growth in Chinese higher education, graduate placement has become a critical issue facing colleges and universties. In response, one of the policy initiatives adopted by the Chinese government is for higher education institutions to put an emphasis on entrepreneurship education. In 2002, the Ministry of Education launched a pilot program on carrying out entrepreneurship education in nine prestigious higher education institutions in China. Since then, many colleges and universities have adopted this innovation in education. This study attempts to examine entrepreneurship education as an innovative solution to the challenges facing higher education in China. It first introduces the background for promoting entrepreneurship education in China, analyzes the entrepreneurship education programs and activities in three selected universities, assesses the state of entrepreneurship education both from a student perspective and also through a comparison with developments in the United States, and concludes with recommendations for further developments in entrepreneurship education in China’s colleges and universities. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/82 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CET Administrative Sciences 2012-03-01 2 1 Article 82 98 2076-3387 A Review of Entrepreneurship Education for College Students in China 2012-03-01 doi: 10.3390/admsci2010082 Mansheng Zhou Haixia Xu http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/63 The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) is well known to assess quality and business processes in a variety of sectors, including government. In this study, we investigate the relationship between aspects of the MBNQA’s leadership triad and knowledge management in an e-government context. Specifically, we survey 1,100 employees of a medium-sized city government in the United States to investigate the relationship between leadership triad components, leadership strategic planning, and customer/market focus, with knowledge management. Our results show that these components are significantly related to knowledge management and are important in the delivery of e-government applications to the citizenry. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/63 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 CET Administrative Sciences 2012-02-03 2 1 Article 63 81 2076-3387 Leadership and Knowledge Management in an E-Government Environment 2012-02-03 doi: 10.3390/admsci2010063 Sherry D. Ryan Xiaoni Zhang Victor R. Prybutok Jason H. Sharp http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/47 Humanitarian immigrants and refugees face multiple adjustment tasks and post-settlement support services concentrated in metropolitan areas play an important role. As part of an ongoing commitment, the Australian Government has increasingly supported resettlement in rural and regional areas of the country. Drawing on the experience of Iraqi migrants in Victoria, Australia, we examine some of the conditions that characterize regional resettlement and raise key questions for public health policy. Structural vulnerabilities and discriminations impact upon physical, mental and social wellbeing, leading to further exclusion, with negative long-term implications. The discussion throws light on the issues that migrants and refugees may encounter in other parts within Australia, but are also germane in many countries and highlight the resulting complexity for policy-making. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/47 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CET Administrative Sciences 2012-01-16 2 1 Article 47 62 2076-3387 Regionalizing Immigration, Health and Inequality: Iraqi Refugees in Australia 2012-01-16 doi: 10.3390/admsci2010047 Katie Vasey Lenore Manderson http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/26 The match between employees and their vocations, jobs and organizations has been the focus of the majority of past person-environment fit research. The compatibility between individuals and their work team environments is a more recently recognized, but much less studied, type of fit. Person-team fit is conceptualized here along two fundamental dimensions of team environments: interdependence and social interaction. Results from a study involving 209 cross-functional team members indicate that person-team fit has an impact on satisfaction, commitment, trust and performance. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/26 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CET Administrative Sciences 2012-01-16 2 1 Article 26 46 2076-3387 Effects of Interdependence and Social Interaction-Based Person-Team Fit 2012-01-16 doi: 10.3390/admsci2010026 David J. Glew http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/1 How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component of national innovation strategies: human capital development. Asian countries are developing an emphasis on innovation and creativity at all levels of education, while the United States continues (via No Child Left Behind testing and budget cut-backs) to move away from that model. Developments in China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Korea and Singapore are complemented with comparisons to trends in national policy and private sector practice in Japan and the United States. Preliminary findings indicate that while progress has been made towards establishing education practices that enrich student learning, helping children to reach their highest potential in some countries, cultural practices and budgetary constraints have limited reform in others. The paper concludes with a summary of comparative best practices in enrichment education policy and practice and implications for globally competitive national innovation systems. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/2/1/1 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CET Administrative Sciences 2012-01-12 2 1 Article 1 25 2076-3387 Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States 2012-01-12 doi: 10.3390/admsci2010001 Kathryn C. Ibata-Arens http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/1/1/45 The authors propose an analysis of the public administration reform in Romania by assessing whether the Romanian civil servants perform their duties according to the regulations of the European Administrative Space. The paper offers a socio-statistic perspective on the internalization of the European Administrative Space principles, namely, the rule of law, openness towards citizens, and public administration responsibility in a Romanian context, after the European Union accession. Designed within the framework of modern theories of organizational sociology that see internalization as a process of organizational learning and change, and using a relevant sample of Romanian civil servants, the paper offers important and useful results for the future Romanian policies and strategies in an integrated European arena. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/1/1/45 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 CET Administrative Sciences 2011-12-01 1 1 Article 45 55 2076-3387 Socio-Statistical Research on the Internalization of European Administrative Space Principles in the Romanian Public Administration 2011-12-01 doi: 10.3390/admsci1010045 Ani Matei Lucica Matei Diana-Camelia Iancu http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/1/1/32 Public health policies continue to play important roles in national and international health reforms. However, the influence and legacies of the public health eras during which such policies are formulated remain largely underappreciated. The limited appreciation of this relationship may hinder consistent adoption of public health policies by nation-states, and encumber disinvestment from ineffective or anachronistic policies. This article reviews seven public health eras and highlights how each era has influenced international policy formulation for leprosy control—“the fertile soil for policy learning”. The author reiterates the role of health leadership and health activism in facilitating consistency in international health policy formulation and implementation for leprosy control. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/1/1/32 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 CEST Administrative Sciences 2011-09-26 1 1 Commentary 32 44 2076-3387 Leprosy: International Public Health Policies and Public Health Eras 2011-09-26 doi: 10.3390/admsci1010032 Niyi Awofeso http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/1/1/14 The importance of teamwork on patient safety in healthcare has been well established. However, the theory and research of healthcare teams are seriously lacking in clinical application. While conventional team theory assumes that teams are stable and leadership is constant, a growing body of evidence indicates that most healthcare teams are unstable and lack constant leadership. For healthcare organizations to reduce error and ensure patient safety, the true nature of healthcare teams must be better understood. This study presents a taxonomy of healthcare teams and the determinants of high reliability in healthcare teams based on a series of studies undertaken over a five-year period (2005–2010). http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/1/1/14 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 CEST Administrative Sciences 2011-07-19 1 1 Article 14 31 2076-3387 Creating High Reliability Teams in Healthcare through In situ Simulation Training 2011-07-19 doi: 10.3390/admsci1010014 William Riley Elizabeth Lownik Carmen Parrotta Kristi Miller RN Stan Davis http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/1/1/3 The study examines the extent to which task and relations oriented leadership moderate the impact of task and relationship conflict on teamwork quality. In a sample of 37 teams, the study shows that relationship oriented leadership is beneficial for dealing with relationship conflict, but it does not have the expected positive interaction effect with task conflict. The main practical implication of the results is that in order to mitigate the negative effects of intra-group conflict on teamwork quality the leadership style should fit the type of disagreement (task versus relational) predominantly experienced by the teams. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/1/1/3 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 CEST Administrative Sciences 2011-03-29 1 1 Article 3 13 2076-3387 Intra-Group Conflict and Teamwork Quality: The Moderating Role of Leadership Styles 2011-03-29 doi: 10.3390/admsci1010003 Petru L. Curşeu http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/1/1/1 In the past thirty years, academic work in the field of business has evolved from an applied field to a theoretically grounded, rigorous, scientific field of inquiry garnering the attention of high-quality academics from the fields of psychology, sociology, economics, and political science and many others. In this time the social science of administration has developed into a multi-faceted field with theoretical and empirical lenses too numerous to mention. With this development has come the need for innovations in scholarly publication in this area, one of these being the introduction of our new journal, Administrative Sciences. [...] http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/1/1/1 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 CEST Administrative Sciences 2010-10-12 1 1 Editorial 1 2 2076-3387 Administrative Sciences: An International Journal on the Science of Administration 2010-10-12 doi: 10.3390/admsci1010001 Robert G. DelCampo