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The link between economic development, entrepreneurial activity, and institutional frame-work conditions has been focused by scholars from different disciplines, inter alia economics and business management, and is of utmost relevance also for practitioners. This applies in particular to the question of those macro factors that exert an influence on the sustainable success of entrepreneurial activity.
PESTEL analysis as a strategic tool that focuses on the assessment of the business environ-ment in terms of specific market conditions, (likely) developments and their positive or negative effects on an enterprise is a popular instrument in this context. However, the existing literature often offers only a compilation and partial discussion of categories and dimensions, but does not include a discussion of the effects of specific framework conditions in detail, nor provides concrete indicators to make the concept operable. The article deals with this question, providing an operationalization of numerous sub-categories of PESTEL, as well as discussing possible extensions to the PESTEL toolbox that become necessary against the backdrop of globalization and digitization.
PURPOSE: The management of cross-border natural resources has been the focus of re-search in different disciplines. Nonetheless, beyond theoretical insights, empirical evidence of successful cross-border management or governance of natural resources is still limited, even in the European Union (EU), where a range of instruments are provided to foster cross-border cooperation between its Member States. This is where our paper departs, providing evidence from an example of cross-border cooperation between two Member States of the EU, Austria, and Slovenia, adding to the analytical framework to identify the drivers of successful cross-border cooperation.
METHODOLOGY: Drawing from the example of the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) Geopark Karawanken we evaluate the success factors and limits for transboundary cooperation encompassing different forms of cooperation. Furthermore, based on empirical evidence of workshops with local, regional, and national stakeholders, we investigate the potential of the EGTC organizational framework to provide for the successful cross-border management of water resources within the Geopark area.
The Covid-19 pandemic is a multi-faceted crisis that challenges not only the health systems and other policy sub-systems in the single Member States, but also the European Union’s ability to provide policy responses that address the transnational nature of pandemic control as a union-wide ‘public good’ that affects health and social policies, border control and security as well as topics related to the single market. Thus, the pandemic constitutes a veritable capacity test for the EU integration project.
This article attempts to take stock of the Union’s early reaction to the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak. After an introduction and a short note on the scope and methodology of the analysis a theoretical framework is developed. Scrutinising the pertinent literature on crisis management, we reflect the traditional hypothesis that in times of crisis the centre becomes more relevant against the background of the EU crisis management system, and discuss the role of informality in particular during the time of crisis. Against this backdrop, empirical evidence from interviews with EU officials and documents in selected policy fields (health and emergency management, digitalisation, and economic recovery) are analysed, before a discussion and conclusion complete the study.
Zwei Jahre nach dem intensiven Hochwasserereignis im Juli 2021 liegen erste Erkenntnisse
im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung vor. Das BMBF-HoWas2021-Projekt richtet hierbei seinen Fokus auf die Warnkommunikation und das Krisenmanagement. Die Analyse beinhaltet die Verknüpfung vonmeteorologischen und hydrologischen Daten mit Aktivitäten aufbehördlicher Ebene und dem Katastrophenschutz. Im Ergebnis können technische und strukturelle Optimierungspotenziale identifiziert werden und deuten somit auf den Nachhol-bedarf bei der Antizipation zukünftiger Hochwasser und dem Entwickeln neuer Ansätze für effektive Warnsysteme hin.
The purpose of this chapter is to delineate and analyse current adjustments of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in Germany in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on current data and official material, road infrastructure PPP was analysed, as demand for transporta-tion services is highly sensitive to fluctuations of overall economic activity. Accordingly, they do not only offer a good illustration of the challenges encountered by PPP operators in gene-ral but also – as road infrastructure PPP in Germany exist in different designs – important lessons may be learned with respect to their respective resilience in extraordinarily adverse economic conditions. One finding from the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany is that the case for public–private partnerships (PPP) become more compelling, also as an integral element of a large-scale reform package to massively improve the resilience of public service delivery to citizens and companies alike. Another important insight from the pandemic and the politico-administrative countermeasures is that massive pressure – both financial and in terms of the workload on the human resources employed – has been placed upon existing PPP, especially in critical infrastructures. The principal reasons are unforeseen or unexpected changes in user behaviour, affecting demand, and more difficult access to funding. These new insights demonstrate the relevance of anticipation of such events in the PPP contract, and the role of preparation for practitioners on both the private as well as the public side. Moreover, the findings provide leeway for further research on how the public administration, in particular in a federal multilevel system, can strengthen knowledge management and information exchange between single entities and stakeholders, and the role of PPP units as potential gatekeeper within this system.
Each crisis is dreadful in its own special way, and so is the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond its lethal nature and truly global spread, one of its characteristics lies within the detachment of cause and effect. The cause, i.e. SARS-CoV-2, can clearly be attributed to health issues, though the COVID-19 pandemic challenges entire public administration (PA) systems well beyond the health sector. Both the lockdown as executed and the first careful exit-steps in their entire complexity increase scope and scale of PA’s tasks and responsibilities, challenging not only health authorities, but all parts of the administrative system, from security administration to public service delivery, with the entire world remaining in very turbulent water. Thus, the question arises how the PA should react to ensure high performance in times of crisis. Our findings underpin the relevance of trust in public administration (or “the government” in general), notably in times of crisis: the higher trust levels are, the more likely compliance of citizens and successful networking with non-state actors is. Even in the absence of many trust generating factors, trust levels are increasing in the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
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.
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.
Der Zusammenhang zwischen wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung oder Wirtschaftswachstum einerseits und der Existenz von bestimmten Institutionen – insbesondere „gute Regierungs-führung“ im Sinne demokratischer Strukturen oder Prozesse, aber auch entsprechend eines erweiterten Governancebegriffs – andererseits wird in der einschlägigen Literatur seit langem diskutiert. Theoretisch wie auch empirisch lassen sich hier sowohl Zusammenhänge als auch kausale Abhängigkeiten begründen; die Annahme hinter allen Modellen ist die Hauptannahme der Institutionenökonomik seit ihren Anfängen: Institutions matter! Gleichwohl sind Art und Umfang des Einflusses von Regierungs- und Governancequalität auf Wachstum und Entwicklung nicht unumstritten und teilweise empirisch schwächer als theoretisch ableitbar. Dies gilt umso mehr mit Blick auf weniger trennscharf zu erfassende informelle Institutionen oder in Fällen, wo einzelne institutionelle Dimensionen nicht kohärent sind. Darüber hinaus ist die einschlägige Literatur auch gekennzeichnet von der Diskussion über Daten, Indikatoren und methodische Schwierigkeiten.
Der vorliegende Beitrag trägt zu dieser Debatte um die Rolle von Institutionen in zweierlei Hinsicht bei: Zum einen erfolgt eine kritische Reflexion des Institutionenbegriffs sowie eine Analyse bestehender empirischer Arbeiten zum Thema, in welcher schwerpunktmäßig die Frage nach der Tauglichkeit der verwandten Indikatoren sowie inhaltliche wie methodische Inkonsistenzen der (empirischen) Literatur diskutiert werden. Anschließend erfolgt mit der Diskussion kultureller Faktoren als Komplement oder Substitut „traditionell“ definierter Institutionen eine bescheidene Erweiterung der Literatur. Das Hauptargument ist an dieser Stelle, dass weniger die formellen und beobachtbaren Institutionen relevant sein könnten, sondern deren kulturelle Basis, die in verschiedenen Dimensionen als „funktionales Äquivalent“ wirkt.