Empirical evidences of correlation between Innovation and ethical behavior in the EU Countries Area

Abstract

The technological innovation stands for a positive foundation in the values system evolution in a country. Once involved in the modernizing process, the Public Sector shows an ever growing interest in the Information Technology and the management methods able to guarantee a higher level in the services control, efficiency and quality, against increasingly restricting expenditure constraints. The development of these technologies goes under the label of e-government (or e-administration), terms referring to the employment of the modern ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), linked to the development of electronics and the Internet in the Public Administration modernization. Several studies have evidenced that innovation is able to influence the ethical model, so triggering a virtuous circle. With reference to the EU Countries Area, following a Business Administration approach, the final part of the paper aims to demonstrate an empirical correlation between these variables.