Exploring Good Governance with an Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance: A Case Study

Abstract

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is an industrial revolution in which people, technology, and data are mixed to drastically change the way we live. The collection and utilization of big data is one of the most important features to characterize the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The importance of public and administrative data is on the rise over time in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era. Public or administrative data plays an important role in establishing useful policies for the citizens and the data governance infrastructure lowers marginal costs while enhancing knowledge. An integrative framework for collaborative governance (IFCG) suggested by Emerson and her colleagues in 2012 is a useful tool to assess collaborative governance. This study examines the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN), a good data governance in the UK, with the IFCG perspective to assess the good data governance. It is shown that the ADRN governance case can be accounted for by three concepts–principled engagement, shared motivation, and capacity for joint action– in the IFCG perspective and that this framework is a useful criterion to build collaborative governance. Based on case analysis, the paper discusses implications for establishing data governance of administrative data in Korea.