Aleksander Aristovnik

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• Professor, PhD
• Professor (Full) at University of Ljubljana

The purpose of the paper is to review some previous researches examining ICT efficiency and the impact of ICT on educational output/outcome as well as different conceptual and methodological issues related to performance measurement. Moreover, a definition, measurements and the empirical application of a model measuring the efficiency of ICT use an...

The paper attempts to empirically explore the transmission mechanism regarding the short-term impact of public debt and growth. We examine and evaluate the direct effect of higher indebtedness on economic growth for countries in the EU which are in the epicentre of the current sovereign debt crisis. In comparison to similar empirical studies, our r...

Purpose – The paper has two purposes – first, to examine the dimensionality of employee satisfaction and, second, to identify the impact of the groups of factors on employee satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – The measurement of satisfaction of all employees in the Slovenian Police based on the comprehensive on-line questionnaire. Factor a...

The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale study to date on how students perceive the impacts of the first wave of COVID-19 crisis in early 2020 on various aspects of their lives on a global level. With a sample of 30,383 students from 62 countries, the study reveals that amid the worldwide lockdown and transition to online learning...

The lack of knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged extensive research in the academic sphere, reflected in the exponentially growing scientific literature. While the state of COVID-19 research reveals it is currently in an early stage of developing knowledge, a comprehensive and in-depth overview is still missing. Accordingly, the pap...

This chapter presents a case study detailing the development and application of digital assessment software within Slovenian public administration. The software provides a comprehensive measurement of the level of digitalization through a structured questionnaire rooted in a robust framework that integrates core organizational elements from the mul...

Digital transformation, driven by disruptive technologies, is significantly altering economies and societies worldwide. For public organisations, embracing disruptive technologies can enhance efficiency, productivity, transparency, and service delivery. However, successful integration of these technologies requires comprehensive readiness at an org...

Background: The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in public administration (PA) has the potential to enhance transparency, efficiency, and responsiveness, ultimately creating greater public value. However, the integration of AI into PA faces challenges, including conceptual ambiguities and limited knowledge of the practical applications. Thi...

The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale global study to date on how higher education students perceived the use of ChatGPT in early 2024. With a sample of 23,218 students from 109 countries and territories, the study reveals that students primarily used ChatGPT for brainstorming, summarizing texts, and finding research articles, w...

This paper investigates the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in public governance and its impact on socioeconomic welfare, focusing on Slovenian Social Work Centres (SWCs). The objectives are to assess how AI applications align with governance models such as (Neo)Weberian Bureaucracy, New Public Management (NPM), and Good Governance, and to...

World economies have faced numerous crises throughout history. Fiscal issues have accordingly become a crucial aspect of economic policy discussions, particularly in Eastern Europe, a region shown to be especially vulnerable to the recent economic shocks. The paper therefore aims to provide a bibliometric examination of trends in fiscal research vi...

Purpose: The purpose of the presented study was to develop a set of recommendations for decision-makers (policymakers and public managers) and public employees to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of organisational elements in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in public institutions. Design/methodology/approach: Utilising a system...

Trauma scientists have raised the alarm about the devastating consequences of the Ukraine war on mental health. We examined how higher education students—as indirect victims—coped with this conflict and how they emotionally reacted during 2022. We involved 2314 students from 16 countries through an online survey. A structural equation model indicat...

This research advances the field of digital government by developing and empirically validating a model for measuring the digital state of public administration, with a specific focus on Slovenia. Moving beyond traditional digital maturity models, our study introduces a holistic framework that integrates elements of technology, process, structure,...

The paper provides an in-depth examination of artificial intelligence (AI) research in public administration by comparison with the business sector. The results of bibliometric analysis on 1758 documents for public administration and 2163 documents for the private sector from the Scopus database published until 2022 reveal the growth of the researc...

This study aimed to analyse the impact of digitalisation on good governance with respect to selected local public administrations during the COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020. The overriding assumption made is that agile values mediate the relationship between digitalisation and good governance on this level of public administration. Data wer...

Public administration and governance must adapt to the changing socioeconomic environment, improving quality, process efficiency, and collaboration. Hence, public administration and public governance models have been significantly modified multiple times, resulting in differences in public governance practices. This paper examines different public...

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot, can generate coherent, informative, human-like responses and have natural language conversations with users. In the higher education sector, ChatGPT has been met with both excitement and scepticism. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to investigate the perception of ChatG...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted higher education by forcing the transition to online learning, which became a mandatory teaching process during the lockdowns. Although the epidemiological situation has gradually improved since then, online learning is becoming ever more popular as it provides new learning opportunities...

Faced with increasingly prominent challenges in developing a knowledge- based economy, many countries have attached great importance to research and development (R&D) activities, particularly in industrial enterprises. Considering the heterogeneity in the development background across countries, this study examines industrial R&D performance fr...

The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted postsecondary education with the transition to online learning, which was a mandatory teaching process during lockdowns. Despite the epidemiological situation improving, online learning is becoming increasingly popular as it provides new learning opportunities. Therefore, the paper aims to provide n...

This paper analyses the impact of the use of digital communication tools in administrative procedures on the effectiveness of local administrative authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. It considers COVID-19-driven changes in the legal competence of the institutional unit and administrative authorities’ orientation to good governance as mediator...

The concept of smart public governance (SPG) is gaining attention among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners around the world, especially in response to the modernisation of public administration through emerging technologies in both local (smart city) and national (smart government) levels. Spurred by the noticeable lack of understanding o...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide range of negative consequences for higher education students. We explored the generalizability of the control-value theory of achievement emotions for e-learning, focusing on their antecedents. We involved 17019 higher education students from 13 countries, who completed an online survey during th...

The emergence of digital technologies has profoundly affected and transformed almost every aspect of societal relations. These impacts have also reached public administration, including its governance. Digital technologies’ rise has paved the way for the surfacing of a new public governance model called the Digital Era Governance (DEG) model (often...

The recent trends and challenges emphasize the need to exploit the potential of disruptive technologies in public administration. Accordingly, the main aim of the paper is to examine this issue over the last two decades. The results of bibliometric analysis on 3595 documents from Scopus reveal the growth of disruptive technologies research in publi...

Public administration and public governance play a crucial role in society today by ensuring that social needs are met. Due to the constantly changing environment, public governance models have transformed many times, creating differences in public governance practices among public administration institutions, with combinations of contradictory str...

Disruptive technologies have been recognized as a key facilitator of the Covid-19 pandemic response and recovery efforts. Therefore, they have recently gained increased attention. However, due to the novelty of this research area, there is the lack of knowledge. Therefore, the main of the paper is to a provide bibliometric analysis on Covid-19 and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has radically transformed the lives of people, including higher education students. Thus, the main aim of the chapter is to present the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic work and life of public administration students in Slovenia compared with their counterparts from other fields of study. The analysis is based on 1...

The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has completely reshaped the lives of people around the world, including higher education students. Beyond serious health consequences for a proportion of those directly affected by the virus, the pandemic holds important implications for the life and work of higher education students,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped administrative relations and put emphasis on the digital transformation of public administration that is urgently needed to support a sustainable recovery from the pandemic crisis and future sustainable development in the post-pandemic era. This paper presents a comparative study on the ways the firs...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shaped higher education and seen the distinct rise of e-learning as a compulsory element of the modern educational landscape. Accordingly, this study highlights the factors which have influenced how students perceive their academic performance during this emergency changeover to e-learning. The...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped administrative relations and put emphasis on the digital transformation of public administration that is urgently needed to support a sustainable recovery from the pandemic crisis and future sustainable development in the post-pandemic era. This paper presents a comparative study on the ways the firs...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shaped higher education and seen the distinct rise of e-learning as a compulsory element of the modern educational landscape. Accordingly, this study highlights the factors which have influenced how students perceive their academic performance during this emergency changeover to e-learning. The...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shaped higher education and seen the distinct rise of e-learning as a compulsory element of the modern educational landscape. Accordingly, this study highlights the factors which have influenced how students perceive their academic performance during this emergency changeover to e-learning. The...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shaped higher education and seen the distinct rise of e-learning as a compulsory element of the modern educational landscape. Accordingly, this study highlights the factors which have influenced how students perceive their academic performance during this emergency changeover to e-learning. The...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shaped higher education and seen the distinct rise of e-learning as a compulsory element of the modern educational landscape. Accordingly, this study highlights the factors which have influenced how students perceive their academic performance during this emergency changeover to e-learning. The...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shaped higher education and seen the distinct rise of e-learning as a compulsory element of the modern educational landscape. Accordingly, this study highlights the factors which have influenced how students perceive their academic performance during this emergency changeover to e-learning. The...

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our society, with administrative procedures – as relationships between public authorities and citizens and businesses – being no exception. Still, the innovative digitalisation of such procedures means the 58 administrative units across Slovenia have been able to develop a responsive administrative system. Usin...

The main goal of this research was to clarify which aspects of blended learning increase a student's knowledge level measured by the course final grade. The questionnaire-based survey was used for gathering students' attitudes towards some aspects of blended learning. A principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering of variables were appl...

The pursuit of global competitiveness requires a complex system of measures that enable the promotion of business. Yet this goal is strongly hindered by interdisciplinary (legal, economic, managerial, IT) red tape programs in both national and supranational frameworks. The aim of the paper is to enhance the understanding of red tape by identifying...

The lack of knowledge on the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of...

The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale study to date on how students perceive the impacts of the first wave of COVID-19 crisis in early 2020 on various aspects of their lives on a global level. With a sample of 30,383 students from 62 countries, the study reveals that amid the worldwide lockdown and transition to online learning...

Purpose: Administrative barriers to employment pose a problem in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) which have an essential role in the European economy, compared to large ones. The existing rigidity and inflexibility of the labor market have further slowed down their position in creating new jobs. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is t...

Special Issue "Impact of the Tax Systems, Tax Administration and Administrative Burdens on Sustainable SMEs’ Performance" A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2020. Special Issue Editor Dr. Aleksander Aristovnik Guest Editor Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljublja...

Research and development (R&D) investment is widely recognised as one of the crucial elements of generating the competitive advantage of contemporary companies. At the same time, it is also considered to represent one of the key determinants of overall sustainable development. Global competition, which is becoming increasingly harsh and forces comp...

Purpose: Private R&D investment in the business sector is often subject to market failures, such as positive externalities, information asymmetries, uncertainty and risk, making it often less than socially desirable. This is the primary reason that governments promote private R&D investment. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to investigate...

Purpose: Legislation and tax authority conduct upon play a very important role in determining overall business environment by defining the rules under which the enterprises have to operate. Nonetheless, the complexity of legislation creates also unnecessary administrative burdens and consequently hinders entrepreneurial activity. Accordingly, the m...

Performed in a Slovenian higher education institution, the presented research was designed to help investigate which factors influence the ways a student perceives an e-course’s usefulness in a blended learning environment. The study is based on an online questionnaire completed by 539 students whose participation in the survey was voluntary. Using...

The aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of public sector reform on academic literature from the post-NPM perspective. There have been several investigations into post-NPM public governance models and their impact on public sector reform. Yet, the research problem faced when analysing post-NPM literature is the lack of studies examining th...

: Investment in research and development (R&D) is becoming very important in terms of improving corporate performance. However, the way this investment is treated in accounting has always been contentious. According to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) or International Accounting Standards (IAS), which became mandatory for listed c...

The purpose of the paper is to examine the relationship between perceived importance of occupational values, assessed work climate and selected demographic characteristics of Slovenian police employees, and their job satisfaction. A total of 1,848 police service employees completed a comprehensive online questionnaire. In order to formulate the fac...

The study has two objectives-first, to examine the dimensionality of police service employees' job satisfaction and their assessment of the enablers from the Common Assessment Framework, analyzing these facets at different organizational levels, and second, to identify the impact of selected facets of job satisfaction on trust in one's immediate le...

Purpose This paper aims to study the relationship between students’ activities in the e-classroom and grades for the final exam. The study was conducted at the Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana among first-year undergraduate students. In the e-classroom, students learn new content for individual self-study, and their knowledge is...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are very important for the European economy. However, SMEs often encounter various barriers, whereby tax-related barriers are perceived as the most burdensome that affects their business operations and entrepreneurial activity in general. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it attempts to identify SMEs perce...

The importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is widely recognised for the Slovenian economy. However, the issues regarding legislative and other administrative barriers and their perception by SMEs as a heterogeneous group of enterprises are not yet fully investigated. The main research hypothesis concerns that there exist significan...

In the present study, the correlations between selected aspects of e-learning in the blended learning environment and the competencies students should acquire during their study are explored. The research was based on two different questionnaire-based surveys conducted among Faculty of Administration students. In the research 41 2nd year students o...

This paper aims to analyze the development of the rule of law and its key characteristics as a principle within public governance model (PGM) research. In the study, we analyzed two main EU cultural and geographical subgroups, selected old and new EU member states, in order to identify the main convergences and differences characteristic of the res...

Investment in research and development (R&D) plays a vital role in sustainable economic growth in many countries around the world. In addition, also companies are aware of that R&D investment is becoming more and more important since it can generate future benefits, which may ultimately result in the sustainable corporate growth. The aim of this pa...

Good administration emphasises the service-mindedness of public administration and the restriction of authority. It has long been primarily understood as a legal doctrine. However, the notion of good administration has to be expanded with the concept of business excellence to incorporate specific managerial elements because satisfied civil servants...

In Slovenia, almost the entire population of all enterprises consists of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which represent a driver of growth and job creation. Therefore, Slovenia strives for continuous improvement towards the simplification of legislation and procedures, especially those related to tax compliance and financial and account...

Call for Papers: Education Research International: Special Issue on Performance and Quality Management Challenges in Higher Education

The paper has two purposes – first, to examine the importance of occupational values (those deriving from the specifics of the occupation and of the legal regulation) of particular groups of authoritative organisations’ public employees and, second, to find out how the perception of the importance of those values correlates with job satisfaction. T...

The aim of the paper was to identify HRM factors associated with the innovativeness in the public sector of the Eastern European emerging market economies (hereinafter: EEEME). The initial phase of the research consisted of data acquisition. We used microdata from the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS). In the second phase, we divided the EE...

Investment in research and development (R&D) plays a vital role in economic growth. Therefore, the crucial role of government is to encourage companies to develop new knowledge, skills, and innovations in order to achieve greater competitiveness, employment creation, and economic development. The aim of this paper is to determine whether R&D subsid...

Purpose In higher education, a combination of traditional face-to-face learning and e-learning is becoming very popular. During their studies, students are enroled in several e-courses. They perceive various aspects of e-courses and show different responses when using teaching materials and learning in an e-course. The purpose of this paper is to m...

The following paper deals with the topical issue of fiscal surveillance in the EMU. We focus on analysing the impact of the EU's supranational fiscal rules [i.e., the Maastricht criteria for entering the EMU and the subsequent stability and growth pact (SGP)] on the fiscal behaviour of EMU member states in order to acquire new insights into solutio...

The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and therefore e-learning is becoming an ever more frequently used teaching and learning technique at all levels of education. The purpose of the paper is to analyse how introduction of Moodle e-learning platform as part of the teaching process is related with students' performance, i.e., t...

Purpose In higher education, blended learning is already strongly established. The e-courses vary in their structure, assignments, prompt examinations, interaction between students and teachers, etc. Such aspects may influence the students’ perception of usefulness of blended learning. The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors which inf...

Good administration has evolved in administrative theory and practice differently but within the concept of good governance, incorporating efficient and democratic authority with simultaneous implementation of public interest and guaranteed rights of defence to parties in administrative matters. In view of the above, a theoretical analysis of good...

The aim of the article is to examine the relationship between the facets of job satisfaction and different results, i.e., the performance of law enforcement agencies in Slovenia. The data on job satisfaction were acquired through a job satisfaction survey and the data for the performance results from internal information system databases. Seventy-s...

V prispevku se osredotočimo na sodobni koncept demokratizacije upravljanja invencijskoinovacijskih (I-I) procesov, ki daje možnost enakopravnega vključevanja vseh uslužbencev v II procese, namesto fokusa na omejeno število (vodilnih) kadrov. Namen članka je pridobiti odgovor na raziskovalno vprašanje ali v javni upravi (JU) obstaja povezava med sto...

The paper was motivated by the fact that human resource management (furthermore: HRM) has long been recognised as a critical innovation performance factor. Yet, the link between HRM and innovation performance has been given much less attention in some sectors, the public sector in particular. Therefore, we defined our research question as follows:...

The main purpose of the article is to identify which components of public internal financial control (PIFC), as part of risk management, have been improved by the crisis the most at the regional level, and what is the possible reason for that. During the period 2008–2014, healthcare in the EU and consequently in Slovenia was under the pressure of a...

The paper analyses the procedural stages for obtaining a permit in Slovenia and Croatia, based on the legal requirements, additionally concerning the number of stages and the investors’ costs based on World Bank data (Doing Business). It analyses the differences and similarities but also the advantages and disadvantages in the area. It reveals a ge...

Performance measurement is an increasingly important and ever more frequently monitored measure of excellence in public sector organisations. For this purpose, public sector organisations employ excellence models such as the European Foundation for Quality Management model, Common Assessment Framework (CAF), Business Scorecard, etc. With the suppor...

The use of e-learning techniques in higher education is becoming ever more frequent. In some institutions, e-learning has completely replaced the traditional teaching methods, while in others it supplements classical courses. The paper presents a study conducted in a member institution of the University of Ljubljana that provides public administrat...

The paper presents a survey, which was carried out at one of the member of the University of Ljubljana, providing public administration programmes. The purpose of the survey was analysed how introduction of the blended learning, supported by the LMS system Moodle, is related with students' performance. The same relationship was examined among diffe...

The main purpose of the article is to estimate the regional performance of healthcare systems within the EU at the NUTS 2 level. Using multiple regional inputs and outputs to characterize healthcare provision, non-parametric methodology is applied to evaluate the relative efficiency of 151 regions in old EU member states (EU-15) and 54 regions in n...

The article investigates the impact and efficiency of bureaucracy on the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union (EU). For this purpose, the article applies a non-parametric approach, i.e. data envelopment analysis (DEA), to assess the best performers in terms of transforming existing bureaucratic burdens into...

The paper empirically explores the factor of public debt which considerably changes the mechanism that transmits fiscal policy effects to economic activity in the short term. We empirically examine and determine the turning point of debt-to-GDP ratio and evaluate the impact of levels of indebtedness in public sector on current economic growth for a...

The main aim of the paper is to present the key findings of the recent research in the field of the impact the introduction of the euro had on the trade of the EU members. Last empirical studies show that the trade within the EMU has increased on average up to 15 % due to the adoption of the euro and there was also a surge in trade flows with the E...

The article evaluates the current economic crisis' impact on changes in the adoption of fi scal policy measures for 16 euro-area countries in the 2004–2012 period and compares those changes with fi scal policy measures introduced in Slovenia. In general, the results suggest that the adopted fi scal policy measures in most euro-area countries were m...

This article continues on a number of previous studies by other scientists in investigating secondary education efficiency by applying a non-parametric methodology. In this respect, the purpose of the article is to review some previous studies on measuring the efficiency of public (secondary) education sector as well as some conceptual and methodol...