Dr. Achim Lang

Projects

• Regulatory impact assessment of FINMA Circulars / Project leader / completed
• Analysis of Inter-Municipal Collaboration in Service Delivery in the Austrian Federal State Vorarlberg / Co-project leader / completed
• Co-development pf a participation platform, innovation network and living lab for the digital transformation of a canton / region / Team member / completed
• Analysis of Service Delivery of Albaniane Municipalities (Scoping Mission) / Project leader / completed
• Annual Capacity and Performance Assessment of Kenian County Governments / Project leader / completed
• Evaluation of Stakeholder-Collaboration in Developing an eGovernmant Application / Project leader / completed
• The digital revolution in public administration / Team member / completed
• Electronic health dossier / Team member / completed

Publications

• Hegele, Yvonne; Karakaçi, Valbona; Lang, Achim; Mushani, Arberesha,

  2024.

  Compliance with national standards of decentralized public services : the case of preschool services in Albania.

  Public Administration and Development.

  44(2), pp. 75-90.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.2037

• Teucher, Michelle; Lang, Achim,

  2020.

  Die Digitalisierung von Verwaltungsleistungen : die Auswirkungen auf die Bearbeitungszeit am Beispiel des eUmzugCH.

  Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Verwaltungswissenschaften.

  11(1), pp. 94-107.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5334/ssas.142

• Lang, Achim; Brüesch, Caroline,

  2019.

  Collaborative governance in program Implementation : the development of e-relocation notification in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

  International Journal of Public Administration.

  43(12), pp. 1083-1095.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2019.1665681

• Tosun, Jale; Lang, Achim,

  2017.

  Policy integration : mapping the different concepts.

  Policy Studies.

  38(6), pp. 553-570.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2017.1339239

• Lang, Achim,

  2016.

  Collaborative governance in health and technology policy : the use and effects of procedural policy instruments.

  Administration & Society.

  pp. 1-27.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399716664163

• Deleye, Cécile; Lang, Achim,

  2014.

  Maternal health development programs : comparing priorities of bilateral and private donors.

  BMC International Health and Human Rights.

  14(31).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12914-014-0031-x

• Lang, Achim,

  2014.

  Government capacities and stakeholders : what facilitates ehealth legislation?.

  Globalization and Health.

  10(4).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-10-4

• Lang, Achim; Murphy, Hannah,

  2014.

  Business and sustainability : between government pressure and self-regulation.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

  Sustainability and innovation.

  ISBN 978-3-319-07238-8.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07239-5

• Menzi, Chantal; Lang, Achim; Mertes, Alexander,

  2025.

  Digitale Transformation der Schweiz.

  In:

  Klenk, Tanja; Nullmeier, Frank; Wewer, Göttrik, eds.,

  Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung.

  Wiesbaden:

  Springer.

  pp. 1045-1056.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37373-3_98

• Menzi, Chantal; Lang, Achim; Mertes, Alexander,

  2023.

  Digitale Transformation der Schweiz.

  In:

  Klenk, Tanja; Nullmeier, Frank; Wewer, Göttrik, eds.,

  Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung.

  Wiesbaden:

  Springer.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23669-4_98-1

• Hegele, Yvonne; Lang, Achim,

  2022.

  Wie können kollaborative E-Government Projekte gelingen? : Lessons Learned aus zwei Projekten im Kanton Zürich.

  In:

  Pleger, Lyn Ellen; Mertes, Alexander, eds.,

  Digitale Transformation der öffentlichen Verwaltung in der Schweiz : Stand, Entwicklungslinien und Praxisbeispiele.

  Wiesbaden:

  Springer.

  pp. 195-217.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36591-2_9

• Lang, Achim,

  2020.

  Technologieakzeptanz und nachhaltiges Verbraucherverhalten : ein experimentelles Design zum Einfluss von sozialen Strukturen.

  In:

  Nagel, Melanie; Kenis, Patrick; Leifeld, Philip; Schmedes, Hans-Jörg, eds.,

  Politische Komplexität, Governance von Innovationen und Policy-Netzwerke.

  Wiesbaden:

  Springer.

  pp. 153-159.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30914-5_18

• Tosun, Jale; Lang, Achim,

  2016.

  The politics of hydraulic fracturing in Germany : party competition at different levels of government.

  In:

  Weible, Christopher M.; Heikkila, Tanya; Ingold, Karin; Fischer, Manuel, eds.,

  Policy debates on hydraulic fracturing.

  New York:

  Palgrave Macmillan.

  pp. 177-200.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59574-4_7

• Andermatt, Kevin C.; Lang, Achim,

  2025.

  Public perception of mission-oriented innovation policy at the local level in Switzerland[paper].

  In:

  7th Innovation in Public Services and Public Policy Conference (PUBSIC), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 5-7 February 2025.

• Brüesch, Caroline; Fuhrimann, Sandra; Lang, Achim; Popova, Victoria,

  2016.

  Ownership strategies and stakeholder relations of state-owned enterprises : taking stock of current practice in Swiss cantons[paper].

  In:

  20th Annual International Research Society on Public Management IRSPM Conference, Hong Kong, 13-15 April 2016.

  Available from: http://programme.exordo.com/irspm2016/delegates/presentation/298/

• Andermatt, Kevin; Stoll, Aline; Lang, Achim,

  2022.

  Mission-oriented innovation systems for sustainable development : a governance design approach[paper].

  In:

  IRSPM Conference 2022, online, 19-22 April 2022.

• Lang, Achim,

  2022.

  The need to understand and integrate procedural and substantive tools.

  In:

  Howlett, Michael, ed.,

  The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools.

  London:

  Routledge.

  pp. 47-58.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003163954

• Brüesch, Caroline; Fischer, Damaris; Lang, Achim,

  2020.

  Bevölkerungsumfrage in der Schweiz, Deutschland und Österreich zur nationalen Contact Tracing-App : eine Studie des Instituts für Verwaltungsmanagement der ZHAW.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22545

• Githae, Peter; Matengo, Meshack; Lang, Achim; Horni, Pascal; Frener, Arlette,

  2017.

  County annual capacity & performance assessment (ACPA) : synthesis report.

  Nairobi:

  Matengo Githae & Associates.

• Lang, Achim,

  2015.

  Germany.

  In:

  Fierlbeck, Katherine; Palley, Howard A., eds.,

  Comparative health care federalism.

  Farnham:

  Ashgate.

  pp. 29-47.

  Federalism studies.

• Mertes, Alexander; Lang, Achim,

  2023.

  User profiles of electronic participation in public policymaking and policy implementation.

  In:

  EGPA Annual Conference, Zagreb, Croatia, 5-8 September 2023.

• Stoll, Aline; Lang, Achim,

  2023.

  Innovation capabilities in public sector innovation labs.

  In:

  IRSPM Conference 2023, Budapest, Hungary, 3-5 April 2023.

• Lang, Achim; Brüesch, Caroline,

  2018.

  Collaborative governance and co-production : the development of the e-relocation-notification in the Canton Zurich in Switzerland.

  In:

  XXII IRSPM Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 11-13 April 2018.

  Available from: http://programme.exordo.com/irspm2018/delegates/presentation/342/

• Lang, Achim,

  2017.

  Public corporate governance at the municipality level : how transparent are government owned organizations in Switzerland?.

  In:

  21st Annual International Research Society on Public Management IRSPM Conference, Budapest, 19-21 April 2017.

  Corvinus University of Budapest.

• Lang, Achim; Malang, Thomas; Schneider, Volker,

  2013.

  International Congress on Public Policy, Grenoble, France, 26-28 June 2013.

  In:

  International Congress on Public Policy, Grenoble, France, 26-28 June 2013.

go back