The Effect of Digital Leadership Training on Digital Transformation in Government: Field Experimental Evidence from Brazil

• Grant number: 25/04142-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: April 01, 2025
• End date: March 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Administration - Public Administration
• Principal Investigator: Maria Alexandra Viegas Cortez da Cunha
• Grantee: Raquel Freire Lopes Guimarães
• Host Institution: Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (EAESP). Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 23/13163-7 - The effect of digital leadership training on digital transformation in government: field experimental evidence from Brazil V2, AP.TEM

Abstract

The project seeks to causally assess whether digital leadership training is effective at enhancing digital transformation in government, by randomly assigning digital leadership training to public managers and evaluating effects through a panel survey and participant submissions to the Secretary for Digital Government's (SDG) digital transformation project idea competition. No dataset with such characteristics exists. The project addresses this gap, also creating in the process an individual-level panel dataset on digital transformation in government.