Entrepreneurship In The Polis

Author : Inga Narbutaité Aflaki,Evangelia Petridou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317142539

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Entrepreneurship in the Polis by Inga Narbutaité Aflaki,Evangelia Petridou Pdf

Dynamics of entrepreneurship have attracted growing attention from scholars of political science, policy studies, public administration and planning, as well as more recently, from the realms of international relations and foreign policy analysis. Under the banner of political entrepreneurship, this volume considers and maps out conceptual approaches to the study of entrepreneurship drawn from these fields, discusses synergies, envisages new analytical tools and offers contemporary empirical case studies, illustrating the diverse political contexts in which entrepreneurship takes place in the polis. Drawing upon an international cast of senior academics and cutting edge young researchers, the volume takes a closer look at key aspects of political entrepreneurship, such as, defining political entrepreneurs, how it relates to change, decision-making and strategies, organizational arrangements, institutional rules, varying contexts and future research agendas. By highlighting the political aspects of entrepreneurship, the volume presents new exciting opportunities for understanding entrepreneurial activities at regional, national and international levels. The volume will be of particular relevance to scholars and students of political science, policy studies, public administration, planning, international relations and business studies as well as practitioners interested in the nexus and utility of entrepreneurship in the modern-day political world.

Author : Inga Narbutaité Aflaki,Evangelia Petridou,Lee Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political entrepreneurship
ISBN : 1315579936

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Entrepreneurship in the Polis by Inga Narbutaité Aflaki,Evangelia Petridou,Lee Miles Pdf

Author : Ran Bhamra
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482233575

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Organisational Resilience by Ran Bhamra Pdf

An eternal dilemma for all organizations, and one that a considerable portion of management schools are set up to address, is how to become and stay competitive. Organisational Resilience: Concepts, Integration, and Practice brings together, for the first time, key works that describe the scope and nature of resilience and provides direction to take the field forwards. A response not only to rapidly growing interest in this field, but to the increased importance placed on it, the book presents a broad introduction to research, knowledge, and practice. The book captures the diversity and depth of current thinking about research on organizational-related resilience. The book explains fundamental concepts and clarifies some underlying ideas from diverse fields of resilience-related research. It examines how some of these concepts and ideas have been integrated into specific research activity and used to further develop their respective fields of enquiry. The connecting of concepts and ideas to existing readily helps to progress the development of theory. The book then focuses on aspects of real World practice and experience. However, the central theme about resilience as a concept is that it is not merely concerned with survival pure and simple, but that this survival involves transformation more often than not. Examining resilience at the organizational level, this book clarifies the commonality of concepts and practice that exists among disparate research disciplines and establishes a singular ‘go-to’ work that can be used to develop operational and strategic practices.

Author : Michael Mintrom,Dayashankar Maurya,Alex Jingwei He
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000200355

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Policy Entrepreneurship by Michael Mintrom,Dayashankar Maurya,Alex Jingwei He Pdf

Policy entrepreneurs engage in collaborative action to promote broad societal changes. They distinguish themselves from other political actors through their willingness to promote policy innovations that are new within specific contexts. Policy Entrepreneurship: An Asian Perspective showcases an exciting collection of new research studies. Previous studies of policy entrepreneurship within specific contexts across this vast region have confirmed the explanatory power of the concept, even though the political systems under investigation are distinct from the political system in the United States, where the notion of policy entrepreneurship was coined. This book is the first ever comprehensive compilation of research on policy entrepreneurship in Asia, and focused on policy change in China, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. All the studies gathered here assess the agency of policy entrepreneurs within broader structures that present them with both opportunities and constraints. In their different ways, each chapter explores how structural changes, specific strategies used by policy entrepreneurs, and the practice of boundary spanning shape policy agendas. The scholarship on display offers an inspiring treasure trove of ideas, insights, concepts, and research strategies. This book will prompt newer scholarship on policy entrepreneurs and the crucial role they play in contemporary politics, in Asia and globally. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Asian Public Policy.

Author : Nikolaos Apostolopoulos,Konstantinos Chalvatzis,Panagiotis Liargovas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839099847

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Entrepreneurship, Institutional Framework and Support Mechanisms in the EU by Nikolaos Apostolopoulos,Konstantinos Chalvatzis,Panagiotis Liargovas Pdf

Entrepreneurship, Institutional Framework and Support Mechanisms in the EU sheds light on the important and yet crucially under-explored interactions between entrepreneurship, institutions and support mechanisms within the EU.

Author : Charlie Karlsson,Charlotte Silander,Daniel Silander
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788112765

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Governance and Political Entrepreneurship in Europe by Charlie Karlsson,Charlotte Silander,Daniel Silander Pdf

The economic crisis has had severe and negative impacts on the EU over the last decade. This book focuses on a neglected dimension by examining European political entrepreneurship in times of economic crisis with particular emphasis on EU member-states, institutions and policies. The main focus is on the role that the political entrepreneur can play in promoting entrepreneurship and growth. It is argued that the political entrepreneur and political entrepreneurship can positively influence the conditions for entrepreneurial activity and business.

Author : Ulrike Zeigermann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030448936

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Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs by Ulrike Zeigermann Pdf

This book explains how transnational policy entrepreneurs have contributed to the transfer of the contested concept of ‘Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development’ (PCSD) in global policy. Tracing the processes by which the PCSD concept has been diffused in an international epistemic community linked to the EU and the OECD, the book offers new insights on international public administrations’ influence on global decision-making. It highlights the dynamic and multi-directional character of knowledge circulation in policy transfer. Drawing on case studies from France, the United Kingdom and Germany, the book contributes to current debates on sustainable development, revealing the role of actors and the logics behind ‘policy coherence’. Thus, it allows to understand the challenges involved in implementing SDG 17. Given its scope, the book will be of considerable interest to academic audiences and students of international relations and policy analysis, as well as practitioners and public officials whose work involves global sustainability policy.

Author : Vincent Boucher,Charles-Philippe David,Karine Prémont
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228004271

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National Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy by Vincent Boucher,Charles-Philippe David,Karine Prémont Pdf

Since the advent of the contemporary US national security apparatus in 1947, entrepreneurial public officials have tried to reorient the course of the nation's foreign policy. Acting inside the National Security Council system, some principals and high-ranking officials have worked tirelessly to generate policy change and innovation on the issues they care about. These entrepreneurs attempt to set the foreign policy agenda, frame policy problems and solutions, and orient the decision-making process to convince the president and other decision makers to choose the course they advocate. In National Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy Vincent Boucher, Charles-Philippe David, and Karine Prémont develop a new concept to study entrepreneurial behaviour among foreign policy advisers and offer the first comprehensive framework of analysis to answer this crucial question: why do some entrepreneurs succeed in guaranteeing the adoption of novel policies while others fail? They explore case studies of attempts to reorient US foreign policy waged by National Security Council entrepreneurs, examining the key factors enabling success and the main forces preventing the adoption of a preferred option: the entrepreneur's profile, presidential leadership, major players involved in the policy formulation and decision-making processes, the national political context, and the presence or absence of significant opportunities. By carefully analyzing significant diplomatic and military decisions of the Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton administrations, and offering a preliminary account of contemporary national security entrepreneurship under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, this book makes the case for an agent-based explanation of foreign policy change and continuity.

Author : Patrick Brouder,Salvador Anton Clavé,Alison Gill,Dimitri Ioannides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317009559

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Tourism Destination Evolution by Patrick Brouder,Salvador Anton Clavé,Alison Gill,Dimitri Ioannides Pdf

Outlining the need for fresh perspectives on change in tourism, this book offers a theoretical overview and empirical examples of the potential synergies of applying evolutionary economic geography (EEG) concepts in tourism research. EEG has proven to be a powerful explanatory paradigm in other sectors and tourism studies has a track record of embracing, adapting, and enhancing frameworks from cognate fields. EEG approaches to tourism studies complement and further develop studies of established themes such as path dependence and the Tourism Area Life Cycle. The individual chapters draw from a broad geographical framework and address distinct conceptual elements of EEG, using a diverse set of tourism case studies from Europe, North America and Australia. Developing the theoretical cohesion of tourism and EEG, this volume also gives non-specialist tourism scholars a window into the possibilities of using these concepts in their own research. Given the timing of this publication, it has great potential value to the wider tourism community in advancing theory and leading to more effective empirical research.

Author : Michael Howlett,Ishani Mukherjee
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781784719326

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Handbook of Policy Formulation by Michael Howlett,Ishani Mukherjee Pdf

Policy formulation relies upon the interplay of knowledge-based analysis of issues with power-based considerations, such as the political assessment of the costs and benefits of proposed actions, and its effects on the partisan and electoral concerns of governments. Policy scholars have long been interested in how governments successfully create, deploy and utilise policy instruments, but the literature on policy formulation has, until now, remained fragmented. This comprehensive Handbook unites original scholarship on policy tools and design, with contributions examining policy actors and the roles they play in the formulation process.

Author : Nikolaos Zahariadis,Nicole Herweg,Reimut Zohlnhöfer,Evangelia Petridou
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781802209822

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A Modern Guide to the Multiple Streams Framework by Nikolaos Zahariadis,Nicole Herweg,Reimut Zohlnhöfer,Evangelia Petridou Pdf

Applying the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to a global range of case studies, this pioneering Modern Guide addresses how policymakers decide what issues to attend to and which choices to make or implement. In doing so it outlines that, far from being the exception, ambiguity and timing are integral parts of every comparative explanation of the policy process.

Author : Antonino Di Raimo,Steffen Lehmann,Alessandro Melis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000335750

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Informality through Sustainability by Antonino Di Raimo,Steffen Lehmann,Alessandro Melis Pdf

Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability. Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality through an understanding of local implications, the authors collectively reveal specific correlations between sites and their local inhabitants. The book opposes simplistic calls to legalise informal settlements or to view them as ‘problems’ to be solved. It comes at a time when common notions of ‘informality’ are being increasingly challenged. In 25 chapters, the book presents contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners whose theoretical or practical work addresses informality and sustainability at various levels, from city planning and urban design to public space and architectural education. Whilst previous studies on informal settlements have mainly focused on cases in developing countries, approaching the topic through social, cultural and material dimensions, the book explores the concept across a range of contexts, including former Communist countries and those in the so-called Global North. Contributions also explore understandings of informality at various scalar levels – region, precinct, neighbourhood and individual building. Thus, this work helps reposition informality as a relational concept at various scales of urbanisation. This book will be of great benefit to planners, architects, researchers and policymakers interested in the interplay between informality and sustainability.

Author : Richard J. Cebula,C. Hall,Franklin G. Mixon Jr.,James E. Payne
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781784718237

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Economic Behavior, Economic Freedom, and Entrepreneurship by Richard J. Cebula,C. Hall,Franklin G. Mixon Jr.,James E. Payne Pdf

This collection of chapters comprises timely aspects of two rapidly growing bodies of academic research: entrepreneurship and economic freedom. Expert editors add to an important field of research, the economics of entrepreneurship, and explore how institutions influence entrepreneurial behavior. This book provides comprehensive and contemporary insights into the interaction between economic behavior of firms and households, economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, and how it generates an environment with greater opportunities for growth and development for individuals, households, and private-sector firms. This advanced and revolutionary book will prove to be a valuable tool for academics conducting research in entrepreneurship and/or economic freedom as well as for graduate students studying in these areas. The volume also provides insight into the measurement and value of economic freedom around the world, making it a useful resource for policymakers and practitioners.

Author : Diane Stone,Kim Moloney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191076343

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration by Diane Stone,Kim Moloney Pdf

Global policy making is unfurling in distinctive ways above traditional nation-state policy processes. New practices of transnational administration are emerging inside international organizations but also alongside the trans-governmental networks of regulators and inside global public private partnerships. Mainstream policy and public administration studies have tended to analyse the capacity of public sector hierarchies to globalize national policies. By contrast, this Handbook investigates new public spaces of transnational policy-making, the design and delivery of global public goods and services, and the interdependent roles of transnational administrators who move between business bodies, government agencies, international organizations, and professional associations. This Handbook is novel in taking the concepts and theories of public administration and policy studies to get inside the black box of global governance. Transnational administration is a multi-actor and multi-scalar endeavour having manifestations, depending on the policy issue or problems, at the local, urban, sub-regional, sub-national, regional, national, supranational, supra-regional, transnational, international, and global scales. These scales of 'local' and 'global' are not neatly bounded and nested spaces but are articulated together in complex patterns of policy activity. These transnational patterns represent a reinvigoration of public administration and policy studies as the Handbook authors advance their analysis beyond the methodological nationalism of the nation-state.

Author : Heike Schirmer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658048594

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Combined Forces for Social Impact by Heike Schirmer Pdf

​For social entrepreneurs, who often operate under conditions of resource scarcity, building partnerships offers an effective way to gain complementary capabilities. Heike Schirmer investigates the dynamics of partnerships between social ventures and corporations. Based on four case studies from Germany, the author shows two opposing formation processes. Means-driven partnerships, dominated by elements of effectuation, start with generalized aspirations and evolve over time. Goal-driven partnerships, dominated by elements of causation, start with pre-determined goals and follow a strategic, systematic implementation. The data also reveals that formation processes and governance mechanisms might be interlinked.