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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Ines Mergel is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their research spans areas primarily within the social sciences and business, management, and accounting fields, with notable subfields including political science and international relations, management of technology and innovation, public administration, management information systems, and media technology.

Their published work addresses themes related to e-government and public services, innovative approaches in technology and social development, public policy and administration research, smart cities and technologies, public administration and political analysis, information technology governance and strategy, and social media and politics.

Recent papers authored by Mergel include:

  • Agile: A New Way of Governing, 2020, Public Administration Review
  • Implementing AI in the public sector, 2023, Public Management Review

Frequent scholarly collaborators include:

  • Nathalie Haug
  • Noella Edelmann
  • Ali Asker Guenduez
  • Ada Scupola
  • Lars Fuglsang

Their research contributions are commonly published in venues such as Innovative Verwaltung/VOP. Verwaltung, Organisation, Personal; Administrative Sciences; Government Information Quarterly; SSRN Electronic Journal; and Public Administration Review.

Ines Mergel has been recognized as a Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration.

Best Publications

  • Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviews

    Ines Mergel;Noella Edelmann;Nathalie Haug

  • Networks in Public Administration Scholarship: Understanding Where We Are and Where We Need to Go

    Kimberley R. Isett;Ines A. Mergel;Kelly LeRoux;Pamela A. Mischen

  • A framework for interpreting social media interactions in the public sector

    Ines Mergel

  • Social media adoption and resulting tactics in the U.S. federal government

    Ines Mergel

  • A Three‐Stage Adoption Process for Social Media Use in Government

    Ines Mergel;Stuart I. Bretschneider

  • Implementing Open Innovation in the Public Sector : the Case of Challenge.gov

    Ines Mergel;Kevin C. Desouza

  • Social Media in the Public Sector: A Guide to Participation, Collaboration and Transparency in The Networked World

    Ines Mergel

  • The social media innovation challenge in the public sector

    Ines Mergel

  • Studying Social Networks: A Guide to Empirical Research

    Marina Hennig;Ulrik Brandes;Juergen Pfeffer;Ines Mergel

  • Networks in Public Administration: Current scholarship in review

    Jesse D. Lecy;Ines A. Mergel;Hans Peter Schmitz

  • Big Data in Public Affairs

    Ines Mergel;R. Karl Rethemeyer;Kimberley Isett

  • Open innovation in the public sector: drivers and barriers for the adoption of Challenge.gov

    Ines Mergel

  • Agile innovation management in government: A research agenda

    Ines Mergel

  • Social media institutionalization in the U.S. federal government

    Ines Mergel

  • Overcoming barriers to digital government: mapping the strategies of digital champions

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  • Government 2.0 Revisited: Social Media Strategies in the Public Sector

    Ines Mergel

  • Agile government : systematic literature review and future research

    Ines Mergel;Yiwei Gong;John Bertot

  • Opening Government

    Ines Mergel

  • Agile: A New Way of Governing

    Ines Mergel;Sukumar Ganapati;Andrew B. Whitford

  • Open collaboration in the public sector : the case of social coding on GitHub

    Ines Mergel

  • Co-production in digital transformation of public administration and public value creation: The case of Denmark

    Ada Scupola;Ines Mergel

Frequent Co-Authors

David Lazer
David Lazer Northeastern University
Andrew B. Whitford
Andrew B. Whitford University of Georgia
Tina Nabatchi
Tina Nabatchi Syracuse University
Marijn Janssen
Marijn Janssen Delft University of Technology
Kevin C. Desouza
Kevin C. Desouza Queensland University of Technology
Ulrik Brandes
Ulrik Brandes ETH Zurich
Jeremy Shiffman
Jeremy Shiffman Johns Hopkins University
Gill Walt
Gill Walt London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Kathleen M. Carley
Kathleen M. Carley Carnegie Mellon University
David M. Van Slyke
David M. Van Slyke Syracuse University

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