- Legal and Policy Issues
- E-Government and Public Services
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
- Firm Innovation and Growth
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Technology Assessment and Management
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Educational Innovations and Technology
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Online Learning and Analytics
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- AI in Service Interactions
- E-Learning and Knowledge Management
- COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Technostress in Professional Settings
University of Ljubljana
2016-2025
University of Zagreb
2020
Economie Publique
2019
The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale study to date on how students perceive impacts of first wave COVID-19 crisis in early 2020 various aspects their lives a global level. With sample 30,383 from 62 countries, reveals that amid worldwide lockdown transition online learning were satisfied with support provided by teaching staff universities’ public relations. Still, deficient computer skills perception higher workload prevented them perceiving own improved performance new...
The paper aims to present the most comprehensive and large-scale study date of students’ perceived impacts COVID-19 crisis on different aspects their lives a global level. with sample 30,383 students from 62 countries reveals that due worldwide lockdown transition online learning were satisfied support teaching staff universities’ public relations. Nevertheless, lack computer skills perception increased workload prevented them perceiving higher performance in new...
The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has completely reshaped lives of people around world, including higher education students. Beyond serious health consequences for a proportion those directly affected virus, holds important implications life and work students, considerably affecting their physical mental well-being. To capture how students perceived first wave pandemic's impact, one most comprehensive large-scale online surveys across world was conducted....
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shaped higher education and seen distinct rise e-learning as a compulsory element modern educational landscape. Accordingly, this study highlights factors which have influenced how students perceive their academic performance during emergency changeover to e-learning. empirical analysis is performed on sample 10,092 from 10 countries across 4 continents pandemic’s first wave through an online survey. A structural equation model revealed...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted higher education by forcing transition to online learning, which became a mandatory teaching process during lockdowns. Although epidemiological situation has gradually improved since then, learning is becoming ever more popular as it provides new opportunities. Therefore, paper aims present recent research trends concerning in using selected bibliometric approaches. analysis based on 8,303 documents from Scopus database published...
The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale global study to date on how higher education students perceived use of ChatGPT in early 2024. With a sample 23,218 from 109 countries territories, reveals that primarily used for brainstorming, summarizing texts, finding research articles, with few using it professional creative writing. They found useful simplifying complex information content, but less reliable providing supporting classroom learning, though some considered its...
The lack of knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged extensive research in academic sphere, reflected exponentially growing scientific literature. While state reveals it is currently an early stage developing knowledge, a comprehensive and in-depth overview still missing. Accordingly, paper’s main aim to provide bibliometric analysis across science social landscape, using innovative approaches (e.g., Venn diagram, Biblioshiny descriptive statistics, VOSviewer co-occurrence...
The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale study to date on how students perceive impacts of COVID-19 crisis various aspects their lives a global level. With sample 30,383 from 62 countries, reveals that amid worldwide lockdown transition online learning were satisfied with support provided by teaching staff universities’ public relations. Still, deficient computer skills perception higher workload prevented them perceiving own improved performance in new...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide range negative consequences for higher education students. We explored generalizability control-value theory achievement emotions e-learning, focusing on their antecedents. involved 17019 students from 13 countries, who completed an online survey during first wave pandemic. A structural equation model revealed that proximal antecedents (e-learning self-efficacy, computer self-efficacy) mediated relation between environmental (cognitive and...
Abstract Trauma scientists have raised the alarm about devastating consequences of Ukraine war on mental health. We examined how higher education students—as indirect victims—coped with this conflict and they emotionally reacted during 2022. involved 2314 students from 16 countries through an online survey. A structural equation model indicated significant relations between war-related worry military macroeconomics domains two coping strategies (opposition, support giving), in turn...
Background: The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in public administration (PA) has the potential to enhance transparency, efficiency, and responsiveness, ultimately creating greater value. However, integration AI into PA faces challenges, including conceptual ambiguities limited knowledge practical applications. This study addresses these gaps by offering an overview categorization research applications PA. Methods: Using a dataset 3149 documents from Scopus database, this identifies...
The concept of smart public governance (SPG) is gaining attention among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners around the world, especially in response to modernisation administration through emerging technologies both local (smart city) national government) levels. Spurred by noticeable lack understanding SPG concept, paper aims comprehensively examine research considering characteristic differences between city government concepts. Bibliometric analysis based on Scopus database,...
This research advances the field of digital government by developing and empirically validating a model for measuring state public administration, with specific focus on Slovenia. Moving beyond traditional maturity models, our study introduces holistic framework that integrates elements technology, process, structure, people organisational culture, enriched dimensions principles, good governance, external environmental factors. is grounded in an adaptation Leavitt’s diamond model, tailored...
Public administration and public governance play a crucial role in society today by ensuring that social needs are met. Due to the constantly changing environment, models have transformed many times, creating differences practices among institutions, with combinations of contradictory structures principles coexist. Accordingly, this paper aims provide an overview different models, extract quantifiable elements based on models’ examine extent layering at levels specific case Slovenian...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at end 2019, has radically transformed lives people around world. Due to its fast spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. lack knowledge on this area encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which reflected exponentially growing scientific literature area. However, current state research reveals only early development knowledge,...
The task of every government, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, is to provide services and goods for citizens maintain economic order. Therefore, combination legislation, judiciary administration inevitable. Moreover, public administrations must transform way they function by using more information communication technology in order remain responsive efficient. This challenge was further revealed lockdowns individual countries, which affected their social development. solution that...
Digital transformation, driven by disruptive technologies, is significantly altering economies and societies worldwide. For public organisations, embracing technologies can enhance efficiency, productivity, transparency, service delivery. However, successful integration of these requires comprehensive readiness at an organisational level. Accordingly, this study aims to identify understand the critical factors that enable or constrain municipalities in developing their technology capability....
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped administrative relations and put emphasis on the digital transformation of public administration that is urgently needed to support a sustainable recovery from crisis future development in post-pandemic era. This paper presents comparative study ways first wave impacted general authorities local level with respect various aspects their functioning digitalization five European countries. With sample 926 respondents Czech Republic, Germany,...
Research and development (R&D) investment is widely recognised as one of the crucial elements generating competitive advantage contemporary companies. At same time, it also considered to represent key determinants overall sustainable development. Global competition, which becoming increasingly harsh forces companies provide value-added products, processes services, constitutes a reason why R&D indispensable in business operations they facilitate keeping companies’ position market...
Investment in research and development (R&D) plays a vital role sustainable economic growth many countries around the world. In addition, also companies are aware of that R&D investment is becoming more important since it can generate future benefits, which may ultimately result corporate growth. The aim this paper to evaluate impact private expenditures tax incentives on Using multiple regression analysis, panel dataset 1372 investing largest amounts activity analysed. results...
Faced with increasingly prominent challenges in developing a knowledge-based economy, many countries have attached great importance to research and development (R&D) activities, particularly industrial enterprises. Considering the heterogeneity background across countries, this study examines R&D performance from 2016 2020 by comparing productivity of top enterprises world-leading economies industries. The metafrontier approach Malmquist index using data envelopment analysis inferential...
This study aimed to analyse the impact of digitalisation on good governance with respect selected local public administrations during COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020. The overriding assumption made is that agile values mediate relationship between and this level administration. Data were obtained through a web-based survey conducted June August empirical analysis was facilitated by applying partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) sample 761 managers from five Central...