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Globally, there are challenges and threats that cannot be targeted by a single actor, even if it may be a national state, legitimized and willing to act. Hence, new collaboration regimes were created: international organizations, but also – formal or informal – cooperations with the private sector. Our paper discusses organization forms of these cooperations or ‘global public private partnerships’ (GPPP) theoretically and outlines framework conditions for the use of these global partnerships. Additionally, the health sector will be tackled exemplarily to delineate in how far GPPP are largely depending on the nature of the good provided.
This article conceptualizes the vulnerability of the different stages of Public-Private Partner-ship (PPP) models for corruption against the backdrop of contract theory, principal-agent theory and transaction cost economics, and discusses potential control mechanisms.
The article’s contribution to the debate on PPPs is twofold: first, an issue widely neglected by the pertinent literature is conceptualized. Second, as these PPPs are used not only in de-veloped countries whose legal order may shield them sufficiently, but also in developing countries, carving out the vulnerable points in PPP arrangements may enable decision mak-ers to install appropriate control mechanisms, if need be on project level.
Grundsätzlich stellen PPPs zunehmend eine Realität auch in Deutschland dar. Während jedoch der politisch Wille zugunsten von PPPs relativ klar erkennbar ist, u.a. in der institutionalisierten Form von „PPP-Units“ sowie programmatischer Vorgaben, fehlt es der öffentlichen Verwaltung nicht nur an Erfahrung mit dem Instrument, sondern insbesondere an Akzeptanz. Der vorliegende Beitrag liefert empirische Evidenz für Vertrauensprobleme in PPPs und diskutiert die verwaltungspraktische Sicht.
The number of public–private partnerships (PPP) is on the rise. The authors analyse empirical evidence (including outcomes from interviews and a survey of civil servants in Germany), about the importance of transaction costs and trust in PPP implementation and perfor-mance. The paper makes an important contribution to the literature by reflecting on trust relations in PPPs, as well as providing empirical evidence for higher transaction costs in PPPs, compared to entirely public sector provision.
It is an open question what impact public governance reforms have had in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, which is challenged by domestic transformative societal developments as well as by transformational pressures from abroad. To assess their differential impact, the article first revisits the legacies that characterize the public administrative systems of the MENA region. Then, using data from the newly-developed Arab Administrative Elites Survey, it taps into the images and aspirations of public governance insiders as regards crucial public sector values. According to this data, the reforms aim to increase efficiency and to bring public administrations closer to the people. Arguably, reforms in MENA public governance converge, though from a relatively low level, with the direction of global standards of public management.
The Covid-19 pandemic affects societies worldwide, challenging not only health sectors but also public administration systems in general. Understanding why public administrations perform well in the current situation—and in times of crisis more generally—is theoretically of great importance; and identifying concrete factors driving successful administrative performance under today‘s extraordinary circumstances could still improve current crisis responses.
This article studies patterns of sound administrative performance with a focus on networks and knowledge management within and between crises. Subsequently, it draws on empirical evidence from two recent public administration surveys conducted in Germany in order to test derived hypotheses. The results of tests for group differences and regression analyses demonstrate that administrations that were structurally prepared, learned during preceding crises, and that displayed a high quality in their network cooperation with other administrations and with the civil society, on average, performed significantly better in the respective crises.
National innovativeness is one key driver of economic development. The relation of national innovativeness and national culture has been firmly established by research. Cultural factors, however, influence national innovativeness via different mechanisms on the macro-, meso-, and micro-level of a country. In our paper, we build on existing research on the link between cultural dimensions and national innovativeness to develop a new model that classifies different cultural dimensions in groups according to their mechanism: political, social, or individual (PSI-model). Using a newly-established data set composed of world data, we test and find support for this model using a variety of regression models. The PSI-model provides a more structured theoretical background of the impact of different cultural dimensions on national innovativeness, especially with regard to social practices and social values. It can be used to generate policy recommendations on national innovativeness and offers further applications in fields related to the various impacts of national culture.
The links between innovativeness as a driver of economic performance, and the determi-nants of innovativeness have been investigated by management scholars and economists
for decades, focusing mostly on “hard factors” as investment in research and development, or education. Focusing on a relatively neglected, but in times of globalization even more important aspect, the influence of cultural characteristics on innovativeness, we apply different econometric models to test for links between cultural tightness and looseness on the one hand, and national innovativeness on the other hand. We find that cultural tightness — in the sense of homogenous and intolerant societies — has a negative link to national innovativeness, while cultural looseness — in the sense of tolerant and diverse societies — displays a positive link to national innovativeness.
Das Projekt HoWas20211 untersucht die Bewältigung der Starkregen- und Hochwasserereig-nisse im Juli 2021 in Nordrhein-Westfalen und Rheinland-Pfalz. Durch die Zusammenarbeit verschiedener Fachdisziplinen (Hydrologie/Meteorologie, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Ver-waltungswissenschaft, geographische Risikoforschung und sozialwissenschaftliche Katastro-phenforschung) gelang es in dem Projekt, eine differenzierte Beschreibung der Ereignisse insbesondere bezogen auf Schwachstellen in der Governance und Kommunikation vorzu-nehmen.
In diesem Artikel gehen wir neue Pfade und beforschen 1) Vertrauen und Misstrauen in Re-gulierung 2) über nationale und europäische Regierungsebenen hinweg 3) in einem Eliten-Kontext und berücksichtigen somit die entscheidenden Akteure im Regulierungsregime als Vertrauensgeber und -nehmer. Wir analysieren Daten einer Umfrage unter Entscheidungs-trägern in den Sektoren Lebensmittel, Finanzen sowie Datenschutz und finden relativ hohes und über Zeit steigendes Vertrauen in Regulierungsregime und - akteure. Dabei sehen wir, dass, v.a.in Deutschland, Regulierung als zu locker in der Anwendung wahrgenommen wird. Ebenso können wir rückschließen, dass inklusivere Regulierung ein wichtiger Faktor zur Vertrauenssteigerung sein kann. Weiterhin stellen wir fest, dass Misstrauen ein weitgehend von Vertrauen unabhängiges Konzept darstellt. Wir finden, dass hohes Vertrauen durchaus mit hohem Misstrauen vergesellschaftet sein kann – teils gar der Regulierungsperformanz zuträglich.