This chapter discusses the challenges
undermining the ability of smaller municipalities in South Africa
(SA) to raise revenue to sustain local economic
development (SLED). The concept of enactment of
technology-in-practice (ETiP) of Structuration Theory
(ST) was adopted as a lens to understand and
interpret the factors hindering the implementation of
relevant legislation e.g., the municipal property
rates Act of 2004 (MPRA) for SLED. The purpose of the
study was to determine the role informatics
can play in the implementation of MPRA to
institutionalise its provisions to improve revenue collection.
An extensive investigation in twenty-five (25) smaller
municipalities across SA indicated a number of
factors suggested by ETiP have impacted on the
implementation of MPRA and property rates
collection. The view is that implementation of
legislation e.g., MPRA is similar to the deployment of
ICT solutions in governments. Thus, in the world of
social theory, legislation implementation is a
socio-technical phenomenon with significant political,
economic and social components. The finding of
the study is a general framework as a lens through
which factors influencing SLED can be understood
and interpreted to provide a richer understanding of
the complexity associated with the role of
informatics in government revenue management to drive
SLED.
Author
(s) Detaails
Michael Twum-Darko
Faculty
of Business and Management Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology,
Cape Town, South Africa.
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