Putting Big Data to Work in Government: The Case of the United States Border Patrol.

Investigating how the public sector adopts technologies to process and analyze very large datasets is crucial for understanding governance in the digital age. The authors of this article examine a large government agency, the United States Border Patrol (USBP), an organization that is in the early p...

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Publicado en:Public Administration Review Vol. 82; no. 2; pp. 280 - 290
Autores principales: Coulthart, Stephen, Riccucci, Ryan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2022
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