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Governing cross-sector collaboration
\"A comprehensive guide to public sector collaboration with private and nonprofit organizations for better service deliveryGoverning Cross-Sector Collaboration tackles the issues inherent in partnerships with nongovernmental actors for public service delivery, highlighting the choices available and the accompanying challenges and opportunities that arise. Based on research, interviews with public, private and nonprofit sector leaders, and considerable analysis of organizations involved in public-private-nonprofit collaborations, the book provides insight into cross-sector collaboration at the global, federal, state, and local levels. Through an examination of the primary modes of cross-sector collaboration, including collaborative contracting, partnerships, networks, and independent public services providers, the book presents a clear case for how public managers can assess the trade-offs and use these options to improve public service delivery. Nonprofit organizations, businesses, and third-party contractors are increasingly partnering with government to deliver public services. Recognizing the types of collaborative approaches, and their potential to solve public policy problems is quickly becoming a major task for public managers, with new methods and techniques constantly emerging. Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration provides specific examples and a framework for public managers to make strategic choices about how to engage private and nonprofit actors in delivering public goods and services while ensuring the public interest. The book provides effective methods for choosing, designing, governing, and evaluating networks, partnerships, and independent public-services providers, with in-depth discussion encompassing: Analysis and engagement of cross-sector organizations Fostering democratic accountability in the public interest Collaborative approaches (including contracts, networks and partnerships) and the issues associated with each type of arrangement Leadership and organizational learning in cross-sector collaboration Included case studies illustrate effective application of the concepts and methods described, providing both practicing public and nonprofit managers and public policy/administration students with insight into these emerging strategic alliances. The first comprehensive guide to public governance collaborations, Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration is an important and timely contribution to the field of public management\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Investment in selected business sectors as a catalyst for South African growth
Attempts to find strategies that can boost economic growth are crucial not just for South Africa, but world-wide especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Investments in the business sector have the potential to influence the economy of a country. It is imperative to know which business sectors to choose to invest in in order to speed up economic growth. Therefore, the study seeks to investigate if investment in selected business sectors (manufacturing, construction and technology) can influence economic growth and which sector matters the most. To achieve this aim, the study employed the autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) approach. The ARDL bounds test showed that cointegration exists in the economic growth-business sector nexus indicating a long-run relationship. There has been a significant and positive relationship between economic growth and all the selected business sectors, and this relationship can diverge to equilibrium at a speed of 26%. It is therefore recommended that investment in business sectors should be encouraged and manufacturing followed by technology proved to matter most to boost economic growth. For practical recommendations, investors should encourage participation in youth and female small businesses, access to markets, production of complex products. For instance, for a diverse South Africa, factories manufacturing complex mineral products can be opened close to mines, food manufacturing businesses close to farms, art and crafting factories close to villages. Then, the manufacturing businesses can be supported with access to trading markets. It is thus recommended that governments, investors and policymakers can make informed decision to boost the economy by investing in business sectors as these businesses can be drivers of economic growth. Several things can be done like forming strong government-business relations, the country’s transition to the market economy, and have sound political factors to influence business strategic decisions.
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Competing in business-to-business sectors through pay-per-use services
Purpose
Despite the opportunities provided by pay-per-use (PPU) services, product companies in business-to-business sectors often fail to compete systematically by using them. The purpose of this paper is to explain how companies can avoid failures when it comes to PPU services. The paper describes the “seizing” capabilities needed to achieve the strategic objectives of PPU services.
Design/methodology/approach
The research process is divided into a pilot and an in-depth study. Altogether, 17 companies participated in the study.
Findings
The findings reveal that the seizing capabilities depend on the strategic objectives of PPU services. To expand the market share with PPU services, companies need to broaden the customer portfolio for PPU services, to align individual services within the entire service portfolio and to balance profits made by PPU services and other business lines. For strategic objectives such as rapid sales growth early in the market development and new market creation other seizing capabilities are required.
Research limitations/implications
The findings are not generalizable, due to the use of a qualitative study. The study is restricted to product companies in the business-to-business sector.
Practical implications
Managers often believe that extending and modularizing the service portfolio is beneficial. When achieving sales growth during the market development phase, these capabilities are in fact sometimes counterproductive. Practitioners have to look into the costs and benefits of setting-up their own financing company and working with banks.
Social implications
PPU services contribute to a more sustainable consumption and make product design more resource-efficient.
Originality/value
The study is original by virtue of systematically studying PPU services, providing a microfoundation for seizing capabilities and developing testable propositions for future research.
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Corporate social responsibility and regulatory governance : towards inclusive development?
\"This is the first volume of two books on the changing nature of state-business relations. This volume explores CSR in a historical trajectory and development context; is theoretically informed and contributes to the body of critical thinking that calls for more comprehensive regulatory frameworks\"--Provided by publisher.
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Innovation in the main Brazilian business sectors: characteristics, types and comparison of innovation
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the innovation process of organizations representing the main sectors of Brazilian economic activity.
Design/methodology/approach
The literature review focuses on analyzing the innovation process characteristics regarding the innovation types. The authors carried out interviews with executives and managers in charge of innovation at the leading large companies in the respective sectors analyzed. The data analysis of this qualitative research was structured in three steps. The first step is the analysis of data collected for encoding, the second step, the summarization of the common points presented by the companies in each sector and, finally, the interpretation of these data, aided by triangulation from secondary data that support the analysis of the collected primary data.
Findings
The main contribution of this study is to characterize the innovation process of organizations representing the main sectors of the Brazilian economy, with a classification regarding the sectoral innovation standard.
Practical implications
The authors’ intent is that the paper can contribute with a comparative analysis among companies of the same sector and, subsequently, among companies of the different surveyed sectors. Thus, the characterization aims to present the companies’ innovation process and the comparative analysis aims to verify the innovation sectoral patterns. In addition, as implications for management practice, some strategies for better knowledge management in the organization are suggested for each type of innovation.
Originality/value
The main theoretical contribution focuses on the development of a conceptual model that structures the analyzed variables of the constructs “innovation process” and “innovation sectoral patterns”, allowing not only the characterization but also the comparative analysis of the representative organizations present in the sample.
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Green Transition and the Business Sector in the European Union and Romania
Increasingly obvious over the last two decades, human society and the economies of all the countries in the world faced and continue to face increasingly accelerated, amplified, diverse and divergent economic, social, political and technological trends and developments, among which three so-called megatrends stand out for intensity and persistence: digitization and automation of production, greening of economies and global economic power shifts. Considering such issues, the paper focuses on a brief analysis of how the green transition affects the business sector (enterprises) in the EU countries, with a focus on Romania - an EU member state that registers a relatively low level of penetration of the circular economy. Indicators of the green economy and eco-innovation and referring to the economic dimension of the circular economy, were used for the analysis. The results show that the EU27 economies generally are leaders in most of the aspects concerning the greening of economies and their business sectors, but Romania reveal certain relative delays of the local business sector in moving towards production and business development methods characteristic of the ecological economy.
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The shadow economy : an international survey
\"Illicit work, social security fraud, economic crime, and other shadow economy activities are fast becoming an international problem. This second edition uses new data to reassess currency demand and the model approach to estimate the size of the shadow economy in seventy-six developing, transition, and OECD countries. This updated edition argues that during the 2000s the average size of a shadow economy varied from 19% of GDP for OECD, to 30% for transition, and to 45% for developing countries\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lecturer competence and internship programmes as catalysts for developing agricultural education graduates’ competencies for the world of work
This study investigates how higher education institutions can reduce unemployment by aligning graduate competencies with market demands. This study focuses on the influence of lecturer competencies and internship programmes in preparing graduates for the world of work. This study used cross-sectional design with structured questionnaires distributed to 165 third-year agribusiness and agrotechnology students from UPN Veteran East Java and Universitas Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya, selected through stratified and systematic sampling. Data were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling to explore relationships between lecturer competencies, internship performance and graduate competency achievement. The results show that lecturers’ pedagogical, professional and personal competencies are positively correlated with internship performance with coefficients of 0.331, 0.183 and 0.252 vice Versa and with graduate competency achievement with coefficients of 0.144, 0.186 and 0.024, respectively. Internship performance strongly correlates with graduate competency achievement with a coefficient of 0.360. Social competence is indirectly linked through internship performance. The study concludes that lecturer competency development, strengthened through targeted training and strong industry partnerships are essential. Internship programmes should be integrated into curricula and made compulsory to enhance practical skills and employability in agriculture-related fields.
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