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Lessons of Corporate Entrepreneurship for Motivating Public Sector Employees
Morris, Robyn J. - 2007
This paper aims to contribute to the field of public entrepreneurship by addressing the question of what can public … sector organizations learn from corporate entrepreneurship to create a more motivating work environment. The study develops a … conditions associated with employment. While the relevance of corporate entrepreneurship to the public sector has been …
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Stakeholder Engagement in Infrastructure Projects Through Art in Infrastructure Delivery
Furneaux, Craig W.; Brown, Kerry A.; McCabe, Angela C. - 2008
Government is a major client of infrastructure projects and can exert considerable influence on the industry sector through the government’s regulatory power and the sheer scale of procurement of public works currently underway in Australia at the moment. Government can also seek to satisfy a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437574
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A critical review of the organisational structure, culture and commitment in the Australian construction industry
Cheung, Yan Ki Fiona; Rowlinson, Steve; Jefferies, Marcus - 2005
This paper reports the findings of a survey undertaken with a government department in Queensland, Australia and it focuses on the perceptions of professional personnel. A mismatch is found in both the organisational structure and organisational culture developed in the department. The level of...
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A holistic audit of managing intellectual property: IP management in the Queensland Department of Primary Industries
Steffens, Paul R.; Waterhouse, Michael - 2000
The management of intellectual property (IP) within Australian government research and development agencies has changed dramatically over recent years. Increasing expectations have been placed on utilising public sector IP to both underpin economic development and augment taxes by generating new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438113
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Beware the reformers: a Machiavellian view of the accounting profession and public sector reform in Australia
Chau, Ching; Cooper, Kathie; Irvine, Helen J. - 2007
During the last two decades of New Public Management (NPM), reformist governments have transformed the principle underlying Australia’s government accountability from compliance to performance evaluation. This change has been instituted in three phases, against a backdrop of uncertainty,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438134
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Online service delivery models : an international comparison in the public sector
Kohlborn, Thomas; Weiss, Simon; Poeppelbuss, Jens; … - 2010
Governments around the world are facing the challenge of responding to increased expectations by their customers with regard to public service delivery. Citizens, for example, expect governments to provide better and more efficient electronic services on the Web in an integrated way. Online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438178
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Shifting the emphasis from knowledge to knowing : the hybrid public-private alliance as collaborative membrane
Tywoniak, Stephane; Sutherland, Janet; Galvin, Peter - 2008
Theories of knowledge management in alliances between competitors highlight the role of the alliance as a vehicle in a competition for knowledge. Vertical publicprivate partnerships face a different institutional framework where competition for knowledge gives way to cooperation. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438321
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Knowledge sharing : enablers and constraints in and Australian public sector organisation
Gardiner, Claire M. - 2009
Is the environment more arduous for knowledge sharing in a public sector organisation? The organising principles, operations, internal environment and power relations of public sector organisations exhibit distinctive characteristics in a range of dimensions which differ from corporate sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438324
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Public sector pay gap in France : new evidence using panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Melly, Blaise - 2008
We estimate the public wage gap in France for the period 1990-2002, both at the mean andat different quantiles of the wage distribution, for men and women separately. We account forunobserved heterogeneity by using fixed effects estimations on panel data and, departingfrom usual practice, allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475711
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Enhancing Best Practices in Public Health: Using Process Patterns for Business Process Management
Stephenson, Christine; Bandara, Wasana - 2007
Business Process Management (BPM) is often perceived as a top priority concern in organisations; both in public and private sectors. Process modeling is an embedded component of most BPM initiatives, yet a resource intensive task. How process models can be derived efficiently (i.e. with less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480461