Search results for "Governance"

Enhancing the governance of local areas through Dynamic Performance Management

2017

This doctoral dissertation applies the findings of explanatory studies in the field of Dynamic performance management (DPM) to the public sector. Purpose. This work aims to show how DPM may support decision-makers in outlining sustainable policies for local areas. The study investigates local areas as meta-organizations. Design. The research takes a relativist perspective and investigates social phenomena through a deductive-inductive approach where qualitative research strategies assume a descriptive account in accordance with management science and System Dynamics (SD) tradition. The systematic review of the evolution of management models of public sector organizations sets the ground for…

Patronage and the Public Service: A Dynamic Performance Governance Perspective

2020

Patronage is one of the enduring issues in public administration. Although the virtues of merit-based recruitment and retention in the public service are extolled widely, patronage of some form persists in many, if not most, countries. By using system dynamics modeling applied to performance governance, this chapter provides an analysis of both the pathological and the eufunctional aspects of patronage appointments in the public sector. It also considers the potential virtues of using patronage appointments. In addition, using a dynamic performance governance model, we examine how patronage may actually improve the performance of public services.

Tackling wicked issues in performance management and governance of health prevention: an empirical analysis of vaccination strategies in Italy

Performance management (PM) in the public sector is a research stream that grasped much of the attention of public administration and management scholars in the last decade (Bouckaert & Halligan, 2007; Hall, 2017; Douglas & Ansell, 2020). This is mainly related to the ever-evolving context in which PM regimes apply. Our society and its current challenges are indeed growing in complexity so that these last have been defined by modern literature as “wicked” (Rittel & Weber, 1973; Head & Alford, 2015). Wicked does not mean “evil” but it refers to the impossibility to share an understanding of societal problems and their definition. According to Head & Alford (2015),“wickedn…

Tourism Governance at Stake: supporting decision makers in a small town through an Interactive Learning Environment

2016

Looking at the impact of collaborative policies on intangibles and outcomes through dynamic performance governance

2023

The Etorkizuna Eraikiz (EE) case study provides thought-provoking insights on the role of intangibles as driving forces for a collaborative network governance primarily lead by the civil society. Among such factors are: 1) social cohesion around core values rooted in cultural traditions (e.g. language and gastronomy); 2) natural and historical assets; 3) human and social capital; and 4) policy innovation. All of them are at the same time framed in an ideal continuity with history, and consistently transposed into the future (Bianchi et al., 2019, p. 104). The fast and intensive growth in both the collaborative network and the achieved outcomes experienced since the inception of the EE ‘mode…

Adopting a Dynamic Performance Governance Approach to Frame Interorganizational Value Generation Processes into a University Third Mission Setting

2022

In recent years, the literature on Higher Education policy and management emphasized an increasingly entrepreneurial role played by Universities in contributing to the socio-economic development of their regional and local areas. Besides Education and Research, this crucial role identifies a Third Mission to be fulfilled by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), which entails social engagement, networking and collaboration with other stakeholders to generate sustainable community outcomes. This chapter introduces the use of the Dynamic Performance Governance approach to analyze the academic network value generation processes underlying Third Mission activities in Universities. The emerging f…

Compliance with the rules and partnerships engagement as determinants of good governance: an analysis of the experiences of local development in Italy

2012

Il contributo affronta il tema della governance di sistema, e declinare la cd. “good governance” degli interventi di sviluppo locale quale risultante dell’efficace combinazione di due variabili qualitative: la ideazione e implementazione di un sistema di regole, e il grado di coinvolgimento dei portatori di interessi. Con specifico riferimento alle esperienze di sviluppo locale in Italia, il differente atteggiarsi delle variabili qualitative esaminate consente di spiegare il percorso evolutivo verso il buon governo, e quindi l’efficacia, degli interventi attuati, a partire dagli anni ’50.

Percorsi di responsabilizzazione individuale per il governo competitivo, economico e sociale delle società sportive agonistiche

2010

In questo contributo, mediante un approccio prevalentemente empirico/induttivo, si cerca di comprendere come i percorsi di responsabilizzazione possono utilmente supportare il governo delle aziende che gestiscono attività sportive di tipo agonistico nella triplice dimensione competitiva, economica e sociale. Ci si sofferma sugli strumenti a supporto della responsabilizzazione individuale all’interno delle aziende oggetto di indagine, assumendo, quale spunto di gemmazione e sviluppo dei citati percorsi, l’adozione di modelli di gestione e di organizzazione per la prevenzione dei reati qualificanti la responsabilità amministrativa delle società e degli enti che, sebbene previsti nel nostro or…

Combating illegal phenomena in Professional Football in Italy: the strengths and weaknesses of the actual model of governance

2012

A recent report about football sector in Italy highlights the reduction of competitive equilibrium of the teams, as shown by their poor performances in Europe, the reduction of fans in the stands, the economic losses and the increasing of debts. In a previous research, we analyse the governance model established in Italy in the professional football sector, and we realize a taxonomy framework helpful for identifying appropriate tools and procedures to overcome them (Cincimino, Tomaselli, Carini, 2012). In this research we focus on a particular category of the taxonomy framework of pathologies. The aim is to explore how to contrast the illegal pursuit of football club objectives and extra cl…

Sustainable user-driven innovation supporting Open Government policies- A System Dynamics perspective applied to the Municipality of Palermo-

Going beyond a technocratic e-government paradigm, this research aims at analyzing how, through the two-ways interaction supported by Web 2.0 technology, skilled external collaboration and knowledge-sharing between citizens and public administrations can offer new ways of citizen participation, enhancing political decision-making process and public value creation. Particularly, the purpose is to investigate how skilled citizens can serve as contributors to tasks that are traditionally performed by designated civil servants and now are outsourced to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call for contributions. To this end, we have conducted a field research in…