Resisting by workarounds: Unraveling the barriers of implementing open government data policy

作者：Hsini Huang; Calvin Zhou-Peng Liao; Hsin-Chung Liao; Don-Yun Chen

来源：Government Information Quarterly, 2020, 37(4): 101495.

DOI：10.1016/j.giq.2020.101495

• Open government data
• Accountability
• Perceived risks
• Compliance
• Strategic workarounds
• data.gov.tw

All public values (transparency, accountability, civic participation, and collaboration) of open government could be difficult to achieve without administrators' good implementation. This paper raises concern that perceived risks to OGD accountability lead to undesired strategic resistance. Using a nation-wide government survey data of Taiwanese public servants, this study empirically tests for differences in OGD behaviors between two types of perceived risks (individual accountability vs. organizational accountability). Results find the existence of perceived risks to accountability in the process of data release and positive effects on inducing strategic workaround when implementing OGD policies. These findings shed light on the understanding of practices of open government and contributes to knowledge of administrative behavior.