International Competitiveness Indicators as a Proxy for Socially Responsible Public Administration
摘要
The concept of corporate social responsibility of public administration is relatively new. However, it has been a long time since well-known international organizations such as the OECD, the World Bank, and others have been publishing several performance indicators related to social responsibility. Moreover, the European Union and the European Commission have also been publishing reports regarding a series of aspects of socioeconomic life which—to some extent—fall within the responsibility of member-states’ public administrations. Finally, there are private institutions such as the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) which also provide performance indicators for public agencies. The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that the use of such indicators referring to public administrations can show how well public administrations do their work. In other words, these indicators can be a proxy for public administration’s social responsibility.