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Managerial flow
No full textWhen globalization affects jobs and economies, policy makers strive to plan, design and implement actions to support their communities and businesses (Ansell and Gash 2007). Furthermore, local development policies are at the core of international cooperation programs or more in general represent a challenge for emerging countries. They could refer to infrastructure, entrepreneurship innovation or urban renewal. However, more frequently than not, development policies, which involve different institutional levels and public and private players, fail due to poor implementation management. This research book presents a managerial approach (the so called Managerial Flow) that could help the closure of gaps that hamper an efficient and effective policy execution.
The managerial flow model observes the phenomenon of policy implementation for economic development through managerial lens. In the book, the research team has empirically identified five gaps in practice whereupon public policy implementation falls down. As a response Managerial Flow model outlines sets of managerial actions that can be adopted to facilitate a clear ‘flow’ from policy development through to implementation.
This book expands on the Managerial Flow model, and acts as both a practical guide to stimulate evidence based policy implementation in governments and as theoretical contribution to policy and strategy execution.
Written for researchers and academics, this book begins by outlining the theoretical foundations of Managerial Flow and moves to unpack application and cases, based in different sectors and countries, in order to discuss and show how the Managerial Flow approach can concretely support managers in the implementation of economic development policies. It reviews and discusses how the managerial flow could be relevant in the implementation of a set of sectorial policies and uses the managerial flow concept to analyse cases of economic development and establish lessons for broader management scope
Closing public-private partnerships' gaps in Italy. From legal microsurgery to managerial flow
No full textIl contributo nel libro affronata il tema della gestione dello sviluppo delle infrastrutture in Italia, attraverso l'utilizzo delle tecniche di PPPs valutando: le caratteristiche del mercato, i dati e le tendenze di mercato, l'applicazione del PPP alle infrastrutture, i gap esistenti. le conclusioni del contributo hanno l'obiettivo di formulare alcune proposte operative per il superamento dei gap esistenti, soprattutto di ordine legale
Fostering innovation in Chinese industrial parks
No full text[Extract] The last two decades have witnessed a rise in the economic growth of China, with an average annual increase in gross domestic product (GDP) of more than 9% per year. It is now generally accepted that government intervention has, at times, played a positive role in promoting economic growth in China (Linden, 2004). To develop technological competitiveness and catalyse economic growth at the nation, state, and city levels, the Chinese government has enacted a series of national high- and new-technology industrial development programs, namely, the Torch Program, within the context of the country's evolving national innovation system. Within this system, one of the important aims of Chinese government's industrial policy is to establish high-technology industrial parks and development zones.
As a group, China's high-technology industrial parks and development zones have grown dramatically in recent years. The number of science and technology industrial parks and development zones approved by the State Council was 53 in 1991, and this number has increased to 254 in 2013. The total revenue for all zones reached 16,569 billion RMB in 2012. Their export achieved US$376.04 billion, 18.4% of all the foreign trade (News Letter: Torch-Centre of Ministry of Science and Technology, 2013)
Work Relationships and Organisational Commitment of Nurses: An Analysis of Policy-Practice Differences
No full textFor several decades, one of the major issues facing Australia’s health sector has been a shortage of nurses; a trend also evidenced across many other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Without a suitably sized nursing workforce, a society’s ability to care for the population is diminished, and will continue so unless this trend is reversed. One of the factors contributing to this shortage is the poor retention of currently employed nurses, which results from, in part, a high proportion of nurses lacking commitment to their organisations. For public sector hospitals, the largest employer of nurses in Australia, this lack of organisational commitment is a continuing concern that impacts upon the ability of health organisations to provide care to patients.
This thesis examines the factors that impact upon nurses’ commitment to their organisations. A theoretical framework, Social Capital Theory (SCT), was used as a lens through which to view the behaviour of nurses. The reason for this choice of theory is that SCT is used to examine the relationships in the workplace by exploring their quality, structure, and the context in which they operate. This research uses the SCT framework to interpret how relationships impact upon nurse outcomes, including their level of role ambiguity, the extent to which they perceive that they are empowered in their work, and most importantly, their organisational commitment. Of particular interest to this study is the difference between these organisational practices and the organisation’s espoused policies, to identify gaps and areas for improvement.
The research used a sequential mixed methods approach. Four methods of data collection were used comprising surveys, focus groups, interviews, and document analyses, so as to examine the relevant issues from a variety of viewpoints and triangulate data. Respondents comprised nurses working in two public sector hospitals located in Australia. The data includes 167 surveys, 12 focus groups and 17 interviews. Analysis of the quantitative data involved using regression analysis and
path analysis, while the qualitative data were analysed using manifest and latent content analysis.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith Business SchoolGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
Transforming Singapore's innovation system: an analysis using the managerial flow model
No full text[Extract] The national innovation system (NIS) is an evolving and closely embedded system involving private and public firms, universities, and government agencies to develop, diffuse, and exploit knowledge within a national context (Carlsson, 2006; Lundvall, 2003). Sweden and Germany have each created successful innovation systems; the Fraunhofer model in Germany involves 60 research institutes linked to a network of universities. The Fraunhofer system receives some 30% of funding from the state and 70% from industry and government contracts. Sweden is recognized as one of the top European Union (EU) countries in innovation. The Swedish RISE Holding AB is a holding company owned by the state and consists of umbrella research institutes that are externally funded.
Learning from numerous efforts in creating an effective NIS, there are 3 national assets that shape its performance (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], 1997). The first is strong public-private linkages involving public research infrastructure (research institutes and universities). The second is having labor mobility, which allows the nurturing and mobilization of people with specific knowledge and abilities. The third is industry linkages that facilitate interactions relevant to important technologies, shared knowledge and skills, and producer-supplier relationships
An investigation into the oxidation of carbon anode composites while subject to electrolysis in fused cryolite-alumina
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Supervisor-nurse relationships, training, empowerment and patient role ambiguity for nurses: Australia and England
No full textThis paper uses a Leader-Member Exchange theoretical framework to first, examine the impact of the supervisor-subordinate relationship upon nurses' satisfaction with training and perceptions of empowerment (as measured by self-determination, impact, competence and meaning), and then upon their role ambiguity in relation to patients. Second, we compared nurses' experiences in Australia and in England. Using surveys, data were collected during 2008 and 2010 from 1335 hospital nurses (900 in Australia and 435 in England). Using path analysis, the findings identify that satisfaction with supervisor-nurse relationships and training, plus perceptions of empowerment, explain approximately a fifth of nurses' patient role ambiguity.Full Tex
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