The relationship between user's perception and environmental functions provided by local government

Zakaria, Zaherawati; Noordin, Nazni; Zakaria, Zuriawati; Hussin, Zaliha Hj; Sawal, Mohd Zool Hilmie Mohamed

doi:10.1109/cssr.2010.5773775

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“…There are many studies investigating this stewardship role of local governments but their investigation is limited to the effect of policies and regulation on the disclosure of environmental information (see e.g. van Dijk et al, 2014;Beke-Trivunac and Jovanovic, 2014;Royo et al, 2013;Qian et al, 2011;Zakaria et al, 2010;Qian and Burritt, 2009;Pini, 2009;River, 2006;Strengers, 2004;Pickvance, 2002). Studies including comprehensive analysis of motivations behind local governments' environmental reporting particularly the effect of specific events are sparse.…”

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confidence: 99%

Political competition and debt: evidence from New Zealand local governments

Chatterjee

Bhattacharya

Taylor

et al. 2019

ARJ

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate whether the amount of local governments’ debt can be predicted by the level of political competition. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the artificial neural network (ANN) to test whether ANN can “learn” from the observed data and make reliable out-of-sample predictions of the target variable value (i.e. a local government’s debt level) for given values of the predictor variables. An ANN is a non-parametric prediction tool, that is, not susceptible to the common limitations of regression-based parametric forecasting models, e.g. multi-collinearity and latent non-linear relations. Findings The study finds that “political competition” is a useful predictor of a local government’s debt level. Moreover, a positive relationship between political competition and debt level is indicated, i.e. increases in political competition typically leads to increases in a local government’s level of debt. Originality/value The study contributes to public sector reporting literature by investigating whether public debt levels can be predicted on the basis of political competition while discounting factors such as “political ideology” and “fragmentation”. The findings of the study are consistent with the expectations posited by public choice theory and have implications for public sector auditing, policy and reporting standards, particularly in terms of minimising potential political opportunism.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Political competition and debt: evidence from New Zealand local governments

Chatterjee

Bhattacharya

Taylor

et al. 2019

ARJ

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“…The problems also faced by the people in urban areas which in Kuala Lumpur capital of Malaysia, the bus was still late despite the route stating that the bus would arrive every 15 minutes but the user waiting until half an hour. This is punctuality problems faced by the public buses in Malaysia [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The scenario is different in other country like Japan, Tokyo which has their public transport system and the built environment is fully accessible. They have portable ramps in all train stations where there is a difference in height between the platform and train and stations masters are always ready to assist wheelchair users when requested [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the face of such a fierce scenario, the public transport sector cannot limit itself to maintaining its current level of performance. Due to this incident many seniors are afraid to travel by trains [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This is reflected in the tourism receipts that have increased steadily from RM 17,335.4 million in 2000 to RM 31,954.1 million in 2005. The tourist arrivals to Malaysia had also increased from 10.2 million in 2000 to 16.43 million in 2005. As such, an appropriate model and analysis for tourist arrivals is helpful to the tourism related industries and organizations in their future planning [3].…”

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Accessible Transportation System for the Disabled Tourist in the National Park of Johor State, Malaysia

Sanmargaraja¹,

Wee²

2015

IJSSH

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Abstract-Tourism is a rapidly growing industry in the Asian and Pacific Region, disabled person and older persons are becoming a growing group of consumers of travel, sports and other leisure-oriented products and services. However, their travel experiences are still characterized by transportation constraints, inaccessible accommodation and tourism sites, and inadequate customer services. Purpose of this paper is to identify the constraints gone through by the disabled tourists in the transportation services in the National Parks in Johor State. From the observation and interview session, it is found that there is no public transportation service in the entire park and inadequate of other support facilities which are essential for the disabled community. Even though, this community is often referred as minority community but their population is growing day by day. Therefore an appropriate and accessible public transportation service is required in all the national parks in Malaysia.

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Political competition and environmental reporting

Mir

Chatterjee

Taplin

2015

Asian Review of Accounting

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between “political competition” and “environmental reporting” by New Zealand local governments. Design/methodology/approach – The research method includes a longitudinal analysis of environmental reporting by New Zealand local governments in their annual reports for the financial years 2005-2006 to 2009-2010. “Content analysis” was used to attach scores to the extent of environmental reporting. The “number of candidates divided by the number of available positions at the previous election” was used as the proxy for “political competition”. Findings – The study reports a positive relationship between “political competition” and “environmental reporting” in 2007-2008. The number of local governments reporting voluntary environmental information increased in 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 compared to 2005-2006, followed by a reduction in such numbers following the 2007-2008 financial year. This trend in disclosure can be attributed to the local government elections in October 2007. This finding is consistent with the expectation of “agency theory” and provides insight into the pattern of perceived agency costs. The study also finds a dearth in reporting “monetary” and “bad” news. Originality/value – The study contributes towards the previous literature on environmental reporting by concentrating on the public sector and New Zealand, together with investigating the relationship of such reporting with “political competition” through a longitudinal analysis. The theoretical contribution of this study is the adoption of “agency theory” in the context of public sector voluntary reporting and investigating the significance attached by agents to environmental reporting to minimise agency cost. The practical contribution of the study is in the area of future development of reporting standards in regards to environmental reporting.

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The relationship between user's perception and environmental functions provided by local government

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Political competition and debt: evidence from New Zealand local governments

Political competition and debt: evidence from New Zealand local governments

Accessible Transportation System for the Disabled Tourist in the National Park of Johor State, Malaysia

Political competition and environmental reporting

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