Search results for "Public Administration"

Is social entrepreneurship a greenfield for foreign direct investment? A conceptual and empirical analysis

2015

Building on legitimacy and social strategy theories, this research proposes a conceptual and empirical framework that links social entrepreneurial activity (SEA) with foreign direct investment (FDI). Investing in foreign countries with a high degree of SEA contributes to increasing foreign investors’ legitimacy. Additionally, firms may consider SEA as a constituent of their social strategy. A key contribution of this study is the comprehensive conceptual framework used to analyze the link between social entrepreneurship and international business. The second key contribution is the econometric analysis of SEA's effect on greenfield FDI, foreign employment, and foreign projects. The estimati…

Delegation and Institutional Design in Health-Care Rationing

2011

The delegation of decision-making powers to nonmajoritarian, independent agencies has become a significant phenomenon in more and more policy areas. One of these is the health-care sector, where decisions on the range of services covered within public systems have, in most developed countries, been delegated to specialized bodies. This article offers an analytical framework that seeks to grasp the empirical variety and complexity of delegative processes and appointed institutions. The framework is used to describe decision-making processes and institutions in six countries: Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. We find that, although constrained by preexisti…

The Robustness of National Agency Governance in Integrated Administrative Systems: Evidence from a large-scale study

2020

This article examines government agencies facing choice architectures that are multiple, overlapping, ambiguous, and sometimes incompatible—in short: turbulent. It makes two contributions: First, two conceptual images of agency governance are outlined that derive distinct predictions on how agencies are likely to maneuver when embedded in integrated multilevel administrative orders. Secondly, benefitting from a large‐N dataset on agency officials (N = 1,963) from 47 government agencies, the study suggests that government agencies are primarily biased towards a pragmatist compound dynamic. Additionally, the analysis probes the robustness of these conceptual images by entering moderator varia…

Prácticas de alto rendimiento y compromiso afectivo: el papel mediador de la cultura organizacional en pymes colombianas

2022

En los últimos años ha cobrado importancia el efecto de las actitudes de los individuos en la productividad de la organización, razón por la que directivos han enfocado sus esfuerzos en consolidar una base de prácticas universales para promover mejores rendimientos. El fin de este artículo es analizar si la cultura organizacional cumple una función mediadora en la relación con prácticas de alto rendimiento y compromiso afectivo, distinguiendo entre las prácticas que dicen implantar los directivos y las percibidas por empleados. Se utilizan ecuaciones estructurales en una muestra de 601 individuos y 50 directores de recursos humanos en pymes de Colombia. Los resultados no permiten afirmar qu…

Symposium on Leadership and Entrepreneurial Behavior in Turbulent Times

2014

Political Leadership and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Effects of Agencification

2009

Submitted version of an article published in the journal: Governance Published version available from Wiley-Blackwell: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2009.01458.x Previous studies have shown that agencification tends to reduce political control within a government portfolio. However, doubts have been raised as regards the robustness of these findings. In this article we document that agency officials pay significantly less attention to signals from executive politicians than their counterparts within ministerial (cabinet-level) departments. This finding holds when we control for variation in tasks, the political salience of issue areas and officials’ rank. Simultaneously we observe t…

Introduction: Contributions of Human Resource Management to the Challenges faced by Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Global Environment

2011

Innovative governance from public policy unities

2016

Abstract This study examines which configurations explain the public policy for innovative governance through comparative qualitative analysis (QCA). The research analyzes the sub-system conditions through a case of Vietnam. The results show the minimum configurations of key variable conditions to achieve the outcome.

Moving Away from Patronage: A Feedback Approach

2022

Patronage appointments in government are a continuing issue in many administrative systems. Especially for countries in Latin America and Africa patronage is considered a major impediment to developing more effective administrative systems. A great deal has been written describing patronage and discussing the causes for patronage, but much less research has addressed the dynamics of moving away from patronage to more merit-based systems. This paper reviews the patronage literature and then develops a dynamic feedback model for movement away from patronage. The model links the quality of the services provided by the government, the nature of the political party system, and levels of trust t…

Contract Renewal in Urban Water Services, Incumbent Advantage, and Market Concentration

2020

Contract renewal with the incumbent is common practice in the contracting-out of public services. It could, however, affect competition by reinforcing trends towards market concentration. This article contributes empirical evidence on the determinants of the result of public tenders for the renewal of private provision of the urban water service. A dataset with information on 215 public tenders held in Spain between 2008 and 2019 is employed. The methodology is grounded in logistic regression techniques. The findings indicate that incumbents' size does not play a role in the proba-bility of alternating between service providers. Furthermore, competition−proxied by the number of bidders−and …