Governance and Performance in Public and Non-Profit Organizations

Governance and Performance in Public and Non-Profit Organizations
Author: Alessandro Hinna
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1786351072

Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance (SPNPG) publishes in a growing area of governance research. SPNPG allows for the establishment of an engaged community of researchers. It contributes to the definition of the theoretical components that assign an innovation role to governance systems in public and non profit organizations.

Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services

Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services
Author: Andrea Bonomi Savignon
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1787437701

This book seeks to answer the unsolved questions related to hybrid organisations, adopting a multifaceted approach focussing on different national contexts, including the UK, Italy, Australia, and Sweden, as well as global organisations. Authors consider policy sectors including humanitarian aid, local transport, healthcare, and welfare services.

Reshaping Performance Management for Sustainable Development

Reshaping Performance Management for Sustainable Development
Author: Luca Gnan
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2023-12-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1837973040

Reshaping Performance Management for Sustainable Development explores how performance management plays a central role in improving the policy cycle and contributing to public organizations' management and accountability.

Digitalization in Organizations

Digitalization in Organizations
Author: Mehmed Zahid Çögenli
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1527571734

This volume carries out an evaluation of the digital transformation process for organizations, which has accelerated further with the influence of COVID-19. It provides an up-to-date perspective by addressing organizational aspects and activities of different fields in the social sciences. The contributions gathered here discuss the digital transformation of social and organizational studies related to disciplines such as public practices, human resource management, finance, education, occupational health and safety, organizational behavior, health management, management strategies, entrepreneurship, and marketing. In this way, it will be possible to see and evaluate digitalization in various aspects of organizations.

Cross-Sectoral Relations in the Delivery of Public Services

Cross-Sectoral Relations in the Delivery of Public Services
Author: Andrea Bonomi Savignon
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-01-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 178743172X

This volume presents and discusses evidence on collaboration between government, businesses and non-profits, focusing on an inter-organizational perspective of managing at the boundaries between sectors.

The Wiley Handbook of Entrepreneurship

The Wiley Handbook of Entrepreneurship
Author: Gorkan Ahmetoglu
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2017-07-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1118970799

Written by leading scholars, The Wiley Handbook of Entrepreneurship provides a distinctive overview of methodological, theoretical and paradigm changes in the area of entrepreneurship research. It is divided into four parts covering history and theory, individual differences and creativity, organizational aspects of innovation including intrapreneurship, and macroeconomic aspects such as social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in developing countries. The result is a must-have resource for seasoned researchers and newcomers alike, as well as practitioners and advanced students of business, entrepreneurship, and social and organizational psychology.

Organizational Hybridity and Social Innovation

Organizational Hybridity and Social Innovation
Author: Lucca Nietlispach
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2024-11-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3759749925

Global societal challenges like food insecurity or the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy have no easy and straight-forward solutions. Ultimately, a democratic process and social acceptance of new approaches are just as important as economic efficiency and cost reduction. Besides engagement from the public sector, there are private initiatives that aim to strike this balance. These newer hybrid organizations aim to internalize both social and economic identities and goals. However, this causes challenges that have to be overcome in order to successfully disseminate social innovations. This thesis, composed of three individual essays, investigates this context with a particular focus on social impact incubators and accelerators. These types of private support organizations act as intermediaries in social innovation ecosystems and support social enterprises through bundled services offered in innovation programs that span several months. The first essay is a literature review that takes a closer look at management in social enterprises, because they are the main participants in social impact incubator and accelerator programs. By investigating strategies to manage hybridity, this study contributes to the literature on organizational hybridity. The holistic management framework that was developed extends our knowledge of how social enterprises can concurrently improve in the social and economic goal dimensions. The second essay then investigates interactions between social incubator participants and the program environment. Program participants profit from personal mentoring, as well as access to a network and funding opportunities. However, little was known about how program participants interact and learn in these environments. This thesis contributes to knowledge by providing insights through a longitudinal single case study. In addition, it illuminates how these programs are funded in the third essay. An empirical model was built and tested using data collected from an original global survey of social impact incubators and accelerators. The results indicate that tensions between social and economic aspects are common in this context, and that governments tend to fund more economically oriented incubators and accelerators.

Public Values for Cities and City Policy

Public Values for Cities and City Policy
Author: Jari Stenvall
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030807991

This book provides a framework for understanding the creation of public value in urban environments. The ability of cities to produce value is related to their capacity to generate meaningful resources for city residents and workers that enable them to craft meaningfulness in life and work. Meaningfulness and public value require new ways of leading and developing city governance. This extends to designing inclusive structures and processes for people to grapple with the meanings and values underpinning public value creation. A public value framework demands that city governance goes beyond ordinary government to considerations of how to involve city residents and workers in creating and maintaining the common good. The common good is determined by an inclusive associational life characterized by deliberative processes and opportunities for social contribution. When acting upon their entitlements to make the city, urban residents and workers – as members of diverse civic, public and private organizations – co-create the meanings that facilitate the collective action necessary to translate values into value. The experience of cooperating for the common good produces meanings that people can adopt into a sense that their lives have significance and purpose. This is particularly relevant to understanding how to motivate just and inclusive sustainability transitions, especially as cities recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on cities and urban policy, the main theme of this book is to elaborate on public values for cities and city policies, and to further develop the concept of the meaningful city. This book aims to provide new kinds of tools for city development that can help them co-create resilience against future shocks.

Arts Governance

Arts Governance
Author: Ruth Rentschler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2014-10-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317815416

Since the crisis in governance which led to a shortage of capable board members, recent years have seen the emergence of the enterprising arts organisation – a development which has led to the need for new types of board members who have a greater understanding of 'mission, money and merit' within a cultural construct. This innovative book explores the world of the arts board member from the unique perspective of the cultural and creative industries. Using a wide range of research techniques including interviews with board members and stakeholders, board observations and case studies this book provides a rich and deep analysis from inside the boardroom. It provides in-depth insight into the changing pressures on arts boards after the financial crisis, and focuses uniquely on the role of passion on arts boards. Part of the Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries Management series, written specifically for people seeking to develop their careers in cultural and creative management, this book is also for people working in and with arts organisations, in government and non-profit arts organisations. It will also be of interest to academics and researchers working in the wider corporate governance field.