Processes Of Corporatization Research Articles

Keep-or-drop multidimensional control systems in professional organisations: evidence on the use of the balanced scorecard in healthcare

PurposeDuring the 1990s, Italian healthcare organisations (HOs) underwent a process of corporatisation, and the most innovative HOs introduced the balanced scorecard (BSC) to address the need for broader accountability. Currently, there is a limited understanding of the dynamics and outcomes of such a process. Therefore, this study aims to explore whether the BSC is still considered an effective performance management tool and analyse the factors driving and hindering its evolution and endurance in public and non-profit HOs.Design/methodology/approachWe conducted a retrospective longitudinal analysis of two pioneering cases in the adoption of the BSC: one in a public hospital and the other in a non-profit hospital. Data collection relied on accessing institutional documents and reports from the early 2000s to the present, as well as conducting semi-structured interviews with the internal sponsors of the BSC.FindingsWe found evidence of three main categories of factors that trigger or hinder the adoption and development of the BSC: (1) the role of the internal sponsor and professionals’ commitment; (2) information technology and the controller’s technological skills; and (3) the relationship between the management and professionalism logics during the implementation process. At the same time, there is no evidence to suggest that specific technical features of the BSC influence its endurance.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the debate on the key factors for implementing and sustaining multidimensional control systems in professional organisations. It emphasises the importance of knowledge-based assets and distinctive internal capabilities for the success of the business. The implications of the BSC legacy are discussed, along with future developments of multidimensional control tools aimed at supporting strategy execution.

Концепция “захвата земли”: глобальный и национальный аспекты

The correct understanding of the current world political agenda associated with changes in the global agrifood system is accompanied by the development of new analytical models. The present work is also devoted to the study of the “Land Grabbing” concept as one of innovative tools of the theoretical apparatus of political science. Using the method of historical and logical unity, the author evaluates the role of the “Land Grabbing” strategy, in comparison with “Double Movement” theory and the typology of international food regimes. In particular, the article is devoted to the study of the stages of emergence and evolution of this concept, unfamiliar to the Russian academic community. Based on a comparative analysis, all theories used to describe the expropriation of ecosystem resources are compared. As a result of the procedure, the compilation feature of all related concepts is diagnosed, and the hidden discursive disagreement is eliminated. Using the method of critical analysis, the author develops a “Two-phase model of the occupation of control”, which emphasizes the dominant position of the Conflict paradigm – the semantic module of the idea of “Land Grabbing”. In the experimental part of the article, the effectiveness of the “Land Grabbing” concept is verified on a specific example – the agricultural sector of the Russian Federation. Via the method of statistical observation, the author analyzes the dynamics of property rights and systematizes the register of commercial contracts concluded with agricultural land in the period from 2000 to 2023. It is proved that foreign corporations are the ultimate beneficiaries in more than 90% of cases of all land transactions. Relying on the method of secondary data analysis, the author identifies the largest commercial owners of agricultural land and the leading countries in offshore exploitation of the general domestic ecosystem resource. By the visualization method, a “Tree-factor model of Land Grabbing” is constructed, the indicators of which are the processes of Corporatization, Foreignization and Catastrophization. In the final part of the work, the author simulates a predictive scenario for the transformation of the global food system based on a retrospective analysis of international food regimes. At the same time, a legal examination of the strategy for national security of the Russian Federation is conducted. Drawing on the analysis performed, the author formulates recommendations relevant to the current geopolitical situation.

The role of joint stock companies in the structural change of Ukraine’s economy

Motivation: The corporate sector occupies a special place in the country’s economy and international economic relations. Large joint stock companies (JSCs) are the basis of the country’s economic potential, as they largely form the budgets of individual communities and the state, provide jobs, create networks of connections with small and medium-sized businesses, etc. The study of the relationship between the corporatization of enterprises and structural changes in the economy of Ukraine will allow to determine the socio-economic effect of the activities of JSCs.Aim: The research aimed to identify the socio-economic effect of the development of the corporate sector in the economy of Ukraine and justification of the expediency of government regulation of foreign economic activity of JSCs.Results: The study’s results show a capital accumulation and the dominance of JSCs in low-tech and raw-material sectors. The authors’ findings established that the corporatization process included the transformation of state assets into JSCs and the creation of new financial and industrial conglomerates, mainly in the mining industry and the production of agricultural raw materials. Comparison and generalization of statistical data are carried out as to the nature of foreign economic activities of JSCs. The study identifies a change in the distribution of commodity items towards increase in the share of agricultural raw materials and a tendency towards the reduction of technological chains. It is concluded about descending structural changes and reduction of the technological level of exports.

Corporatization, Administrative Intensity, and the Performance of Public Sector Organizations

AbstractThe process of corporatization in public services has led to the emergence of new, more autonomous organizational forms. However, while these reforms have been centrally about the development of management capabilities in public sector organizations, we know surprisingly little about what this process involves. To address this concern, we draw on the literature on administrative intensity (AI) to frame hypotheses about the likely relationship between corporatization and investments in management and administration, and the consequences of these investments for performance. As an empirical case, we then focus on the effects of Foundation Trust status on AI and efficiency, effectiveness, and responsiveness in the acute care hospital sector in the English NHS. Based on a database of nine years (2008/09–2016/17) and dynamic panel data regressions, the results show that corporatization leads to a leaner administration and improved organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and responsiveness. In addition, the analysis reveals that lower levels of AI positively mediate the relationship between corporatization and performance, although only in relation to the efficiency dimension. These findings highlight the crucial, but previously misunderstood, importance of lean administration as part of the corporatization reform package, with implications for theory, research, and policy.

Corporatization, Administrative Intensity and the Performance of Public Sector Organizations

The process of corporatization in public services has led to the emergence of new, more autonomous organizational forms. The aim has been to make public sector bureaucracies more business-like, in the hope that this will enhance performance. However, while previous research largely supports this assumption, we know far less about the impact of corporatization on the administrative intensity (AI) of public sector organizations. We address this gap focusing on the effects of Foundation Trust status on administrative intensity (AI) and performance in the acute care hospital sector in the English NHS. Based on a database of nine years (2008/09-2016/17) and dynamic panel data regressions, the results show that corporatization has two primary consequences: improved overall performance: and lower levels of AI. Further analysis reveals that lower levels of AI, in turn, positively mediate the relationship between corporatization and performance, although only in relation to efficiency outcomes. These findings highlight the crucial, but previously misunderstood, importance of lean administration as part of the corporatization reform package, with implications for research, theory, and policy.

The role of the corporate sector in the transformation of the international trade and economic relations system

The article discusses the role of MNCs in the process of transformation of global regulation of trade and international economic relations system. The relevance of this study is determined by one of the key trends in the world economy and the system of international economic relations of the late XX — early XXI centuries — by the process of corporatization of the economic space. There is a desuverenization and corporatization of the national economies of the countries. This process is associated with the increasing dependence of national economies on MNCs and is accompanied by the deepening of the process of corporate globalization of the economic space. The system of economic relations of mega-regional partnerships is the subject of the research. The purpose of the study is to determine the role of MNCs in the process of transformation of global regulation of trade and international economic relations system. There are different methods of scientific knowledge used in the research: comparative-historical, as well as general scientific methods: abstraction, axiomatic method, analysis, induction. As a result of the study, the author identified the key trends in the world economy of the XX–XXI centuries: the corporatization of the economic space, coupled with the desovereignization of national economies. The main findings of the study are: first, the trend towards corporate globalization in the world economy; second, a qualitative changes in the form of organization of trade and economic relations: the transition from globalization to globalizing regionalism — an increase in the number of mega-regional trade agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership / Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, etc.; third, the crucial role of MNCs in the transformation process of the global trade regulation system; fourth, qualitative changes in the form of relations between corporate sector and state. The results of the study can be used in further research on a given topic.

Transformation of the Personnel Policy of Russian Universities Participating in Project 5-100: The Case of National Research Nuclear University Mephi

The article examines the development of personnel policy and human resource management (HRM) in Russian universities under the influence of the Project 5-100. Globalization has intensified the processes of universities corporatization and the spread of effective management practices. National academic excellence programs have contributed to strengthening the performance-based governance in universities all over the world. These factors had deeply influenced the transformation of HRM practices at universities. Russian studies in this field are shown as fragmented, focusing on narrow aspects, and not forming a holistic picture of the HRM system transformation in Russian universities. This work aims to describe a holistic case of personnel policy and HRM system development in one of the leading Russian universities – the National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI” (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute).The research applied the method of semi-formalized interviews and covered 25 employees of MEPhI. Four interview guides were developed for different categories of employees (top management, middle management, academics, teachers), including more than 25 questions, focusing on employees’ perception of different components of the HRM system at the university. The study showed that the HRM system at MEPhI was significantly transformed under the influence of the Project 5-100: the personnel policy was formalized in high-level strategic documents; the processes of recruitment and selection of foreign employees have been rebuilt; the considerable increase in the number of foreign employees was reached; global partners began to play an important role; a comfortable environment for the implementation of initiatives was created and opportunities for professional development were provided. A significant part of these changes is connected, directly or indirectly, with the university’s participation in the Project 5-100. In general, this points to its positive impact on personnel policy and the HRM system at the university. The results obtained can be used as a basis for formulating recommendations for improving the personnel policy and HRM system in Russian universities as an important component of the management system as a whole.

The Challenges of Corporatization Policy for Government Research and Technology Organizations for Wealth Creation

Malaysia’s economic transformation towards the status of a high income nation has led to the widespread demand for an accelerated corporatization policy; one where public sector agencies are transformed into business entities to facilitate the creation of knowledge and wealth. This shift was encouraged by successful corporatization models abroad, including those adopted by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany; the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Korea; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States. These institutions have since encouraged a similar corporatization process in emerging and third world nations. However, corporatization comes along with a unique set of institutional challenges. This study aims to investigate the corporatization processes undertaken by various government research and technology organizations (GR&TOs) in Malaysia, and then to evaluate their overall progress. The outcome of this study indicates that a myriad of challenges can be inverted into growth opportunities through the application of appropriate strategic planning.

Medical Humanities and the Eighteenth Century

Medical Humanities and the Eighteenth Century Stephanie M. Hilger The academic separation of the sciences and the humanities makes it difficult to explore the connection between the various aspects of the human condition, not least in the discipline of medicine. Even though medicine is not a hard science per se but an interpretive approach that combines scientific and humanities-based modes of knowledge and therefore also experiences what Catherine Belling has called the "hermeneutic anxiety" that informs humanities research,1 it is firmly located among other science buildings whose literal and figurative gates are jealously guarded. The current academic focus on evidence-based medicine further increases the distance between medicine and humanities-based approaches to the human body by implying that the humanities do not produce real evidence. At the same time, calls for narrowing this distance are intensifying. Reestablishing the connection between the humanities and the sciences has become more important than ever because of global processes of corporatization that affect both health care institutions and universities. Cost efficiency in medical education has made it increasingly difficult to offer courses that focus on the human aspect of medicine within the medical curriculum itself. At the same time, the perceived crisis in the humanities has encouraged literary scholars to emphasize that their work is not a self-referential field of inquiry but that it engages broad social and political processes. As a result of the convergence of these two trends, the need for interdisciplinary spaces in teaching and research has grown over the past years. The most forceful calls for bridging disciplinary divides already occurred in the 1970s, when the practice of "literature and medicine" gained ground as a reaction to the transformation of medical schools into high-powered research centers in the previous decade. As Anne Hudson Jones outlines, Edmund Pellegrino called upon medical educators to refocus their attention on the moral dimension of medicine.2 At the same time, Joanne Trautmann Banks highlighted the necessity of "read[ing], in the fullest sense" in order to increase medical practitioners' "tolerance for ambiguity" with the goal of improving patient care.3 With the establishment of the journal Literature and Medicine in 1982, these interdisciplinary endeavors found a home. The name of the journal reflected the reality that the majority of these interdisciplinary ventures originated in literature departments. In addition, literature, in the sense of belles lettres, is perhaps the most "humanistic" of all [End Page 301] humanities disciplines because it is often considered a production of art for art's sake. However, the contributors to the first issues of the journal demonstrated the exact opposite of this common notion. In fact, Rita Charon vehemently opposed an instrumentalization of literature that provided medical doctors merely with "a civilizing veneer" by arguing that writing a poem or quoting a philosopher does not necessarily make a better doctor.4 Many of the early scholars working in the field focused on the textual features not only of literature but also of other types of discourse, including medical texts. One incarnation of this practice is Rita Charon's concept of "narrative medicine," which puts medical practitioners face to face with the textuality of their patients' experiences. These close reading practices were geared at simultaneously uncovering the textual dimension of medical discourse and demonstrating that literature does not constitute a self-referential aesthetic discourse but a powerful vehicle for social commentary. Gradually, the designation "literature and medicine" became limiting in view of other humanities-based approaches to medicine such as history, philosophy, and theology, which do not necessarily focus on medicine's narrative dimension. As a result, the designation "medical humanities" began to be used with increasing frequency. The founding of journals such as Medical Humanities, published by the Institute of Medical Ethics in the UK (2000), and the Journal of Medical Humanities, based in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado (1981),5 signaled the expansion of the field and its increasing academic institutionalization. More recently, as Paul Crawford has observed, "medical humanities" has been replaced by "health humanities" to encompass not only the full range of disciplines involved in the delivery of healthcare but also the patients themselves.6...

Tre conferme: direzioni, aziende, regioni

The Covid-19 emergency has challenged both the institutional configuration of the Italian NHS and the management of health organizations and hospitals The political debate and media coverage have often highlighted the regionalization and the capacity of leaders of health organizations as limitations or causes of failures in managing the pandemic Vice versa, a more in depth and fact-based analysis of what took place in the last months shows how the management of health organizations and the supervision of health services at regional level were strengths in coping with the emergency This work illustrates why Italian NHS should invest more in consolidating the corporatization process of health organizations and the regional governance of health sector Copyright © FrancoAngeli

Accounting for the Corporate: An Analytic Framework for Understanding Corporations in Education

Drawing on an integrative review of the literature on the privatization of education and an empirical case study of technology corporations in education, this article examines the corporate within the political economy of education. It argues that by analytically conceiving of corporations under the banner of the private sphere and, correspondingly, by subsuming the processes of corporatization within the processes of privatization, the literature on privatization conceals the very specific role and influence of corporations. The article puts forward an analytic framework for researching and theorizing corporations in education. How the field of education conceives of corporate actors and their related practices, processes, and power relations is analytically and empirically significant for ensuring equitable, transparent, and accountable educational systems in the United States and globally.

SOME ASPECTS OF MACROECONOMIC PREPARATION MANAGEMENT STAFF

This article analyzes macroeconomic processes that affect the competitiveness of a professional management system. It is proved that macroeconomic dynamics, which are manifested as a result of development of processes of corporatization of economy and further intellectualization of management activity, influence the nature of management activity. Attention is drawn to the need to take into account the development of macroeconomic processes in the preparation of management personnel. Attention is drawn to the fact that such processes determine the mechanism of corporate control over share capital and the mechanism of corporate self-financing. Characterization of the process of increasing the intelligence of managerial work and the modern formatting of the process of capitalization of intellectual human resources, which leads to the emergence of intellectual and managerial capital, which become the main factors of competitiveness of the organization in the modern market environment. Particular attention is paid to the fact that the processes of capitalization of intellectual human resources become the main processes of management activity, and their quality (efficiency and effectiveness) create the market competitiveness of the organization as a whole. It is necessary to expand the range of management activities to the macro level with the identification of the basic factors of competitiveness of the professional management system and the organization as a whole. The parameters of competitiveness of corporate management and its influence on the development of the process of professionalization of management are determined. Attention is drawn to the need for the formation of integrated thinking and the system of responsibility of management personnel for the decisions made.

Integration and corporatization in the AIC: pros and cons

The article discusses the processes of corporatization and integration in the agro-industrial complex, the advantages of large agricultural holdings and agricultural enterprises in terms of organizing production, working in the markets and the interests of stakeholders (government, banks, retailers, suppliers), the dynamics of state support for this sector of the economy and the results of its activities in comparison with small and micro-businesses. The directions of changing the structure of the agro-industrial complex economy are proposed.

Farewell to the University (without Nostalgia); or, Thoughts on the Relation between the University and the Common

This article argues for a university that would be neither private nor public but common. After providing a definition of the common, this article proposes to counter the current and ongoing processes of privatization and corporatization of the (public) university through a lopsided double-pronged strategy: to work and struggle at once within and against the university as well as outside and beyond the university (where the outside and the beyond consist of alternative institutions for the production at once of common knowledge and of the knowledge of the common); further, more emphasis should be put on the outside and the beyond rather than on the within and against.

NeoLiberalism Unshaken: A Report from the Disaster Zone

Abstract: We report here on our experiences working, in a large university, in Christchurch, New Zealand in the wake of the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The state of emergency, our experiences suggest, produces the idealised condition of neoliberalism, expediting, operationalising and realising to perfection the modes and methods of neoliberal agendas—urgency, crisis, instability and “the bottom line.” At the University of Canterbury, which like so many universities elsewhere has been experiencing the processes of corporatisation and marketisation for the last two decades, neoliberalism, we argue, thrived within the disaster zone.

АГРАРНИЙ КОРПОРАТИВНИЙ СЕКТОР: ТЕОРЕТИЧНІ ЗАСАДИ ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ

Розглянуто розвиток теоретико-методологічних засад дослідження аграрних корпорацій і процесу корпоратизації аграрного сектору економіки України. Встановлено, що єдиного і всеохоплюючого визначення понять «корпорація» взагалі та «аграрна корпорація» зокрема чинне вітчизняне законодавство не містить. Тим часом існуючі їх визначення демонструють певну неузгодженість у тлумаченнях поняття «корпорація» у різних законодавчих актах.Формування корпорацій не віддільне від процесів концентрації та інтеграції. Основними ознаками належності інституційної одиниці до корпоративного сектору є поєднання ресурсів (капіталів та/або майна); внутрішня структурованість; відокремлення прав власності від прав управління (контролю).Корпорація є економічною системою з певними суспільними функціями. Корпоративний сегмент у сільському господарстві формується із сільськогосподарських підприємств, їх об’єднань і кооперативів. При цьому до аграрних корпорацій формально не повинні відноситися державні та приватні підприємства, які мають одноосібного власника, а також фермерські господарства. Аграрна корпоративна система не є однорідною ні за складом, ні за характером регулювання. Її треба структурувати за певними ознаками (наприклад, за масштабами землекористування та/або поголів’ям худоби) і відповідно до цього досліджувати тенденції в розвитку різних сегментів, їх вплив на динаміку макроекономічних показників, а також оцінювати ефективність державного регулювання в галузі.Український аграрний корпоративний сектор демонструє в цілому позитивну динаміку розвитку. Він виробляє майже половину всієї аграрної продукції та понад половину рослинницької. Аграрні корпорації роблять основний вклад у забезпечення додатного сальдо зовнішньої торгівлі продукцією аграрного сектору. Водночас корпорації відповідальні за викривлення структури експорту – за превалювання в ньому декількох груп сировинних товарів. В аграрному корпоративному секторі домінують холдингові структури, діяльність яких законодавчо не врегульовано.

Articulación de intereses y movimientos sociales en argentina. El caso del movimiento de mujeres agropecuarias en lucha (MMAL)

En este trabajo se aborda el tema de los movimientos sociales, poniendo el centro de atención en los aspectos dinámicos del mismo, es decir, en su evolución y dinámica de cambio. La tesis central que se plantea es la de afirmar que el éxito de un movimiento social en la consecución de sus demandas le conduce a una creciente corporatización de sus estructuras organizativas, desprendiéndose de gran parte de sus rasgos fundamentales (discurso identitario, estructuras horizontales, racionalidad orientada a valores, base social amplia y heterogénea) para irle acercando a los que son típicos de las organizaciones formales de representación de intereses. Para contrastar empíricamente esta tesis, se analiza el caso del Movimiento de Mujeres Agropecuarias en Lucha (MMAL) desarrollado en Argentina durante la década de los 90 como reacción de los agricultores al problema del endeudamiento y ante la incapacidad de las organizaciones gremiales tradicionales para defender los intereses del sector agrario argentino. La originalidad del MMAL radica en el hecho de haber sido protagonizado por mujeres-esposas de propietarios agrarios, utilizando estrategias y métodos de lucha típicos de los movimientos sociales. Tras seis años de movilizaciones, el MMAL ha experimentado un importante proceso de corporatización hasta adquirir el status de interlocutores ante los poderes públicos.

Who Cares for Those Who Take Care? Risks and Resources of Work in Care Homes.

Over the years – due to the aging population, the process of corporatisation and a demand for a higher quality of services – professionals who work in Care Homes have been exposed to an increasing risk of physical and emotional malaise because of the number of challenges they’ve been asked to manage. Given these factors, there is a growing interest in the study and understanding of professions in geriatric care settings. In the literature there is a prevalence of quantitative studies offering an overview in terms of indicators – at the individual or group or organizational level – concerning the potential development of situations of professional malaise. Conversely, there is a lack of qualitative studies exploring the risk and protection factors. For this reason, in this study we decided to use a qualitative approach to explore “more up close” this kind of organizational context and to keep together the different levels in systemic terms in order to identify – according to professionals’ perceptions – resource factors (in order to leverage these aspects) and fatigue factors (to identify them and treat them). Three Italian Care Homes were involved and the interview’s sample was composed of 45 professionals – 15 nurses, 30 total Patient Care Assistants (PCAs) and Auxiliary Care Assistants (ACAs), of these, 17 males and 28 females, with an average age of 43 years (SD = 0.78) – selected using a sampling of maximum variability. From the analysis of the materials there seem to be four profiles of the professionals involved. Implications to ensure a functional human resource management are discussed for the purpose of promote the well-being of the various professionals, and, as a result, an increasing quality of service.

Under Conviction: “Real Men” Reborn on Spiritual and Cinematic Battlefields

While situating my ethnographic fieldwork at Mars Hill Church of Seattle from 2006–2008, this paper examines how processes of corporatization and militarization were structurally embedded through the circulation of fear, shame, and paranoia in the virtual, visual, and visceral networking of Pastor Mark Driscoll's posture in voice. Specifically, this paper examines teaching on biblical masculinity in tandem with Mars Hill's promotion of a militarized and sexualized visual culture as a methodology of cultural politics that conflated freedom and control while bodily recruiting evangelical ‘citizen-soldiers’ into everyday spiritual warfare on mission to expand the church's empire. I argue this ethos of battle readiness manifested through the felt reality of emergent threat signals an affective political economy conscripting U.S. citizen-soldiers through cultural politics writ large to participate in the ongoing ‘global’ war on terror ‘at home.’ By reassessing the political valences of ‘conviction’ in terms of ‘gut feeling’ which signals desires simultaneously biological and social that can be suggested and manipulated through the affective priming of mood and atmosphere, this paper examines the bodily affects and political effects of conviction as resonant across spaces deemed religious and secular to index and critique intersecting aims of Evangelical and U.S. Empire amplifying biopolitical control in the name of freedom.

Corporatization of Agriculture and Its Effect

Corporatization of agriculture is very crucial issue not only for India’s but for most of the world and specifically developing countries like India where more population involved in primary sector of production. This project will focus only on Indian phenomena of corporatization of agriculture. Paper will try to explain the meaning of corporatization and difference between corporatization and privatization while introducing the topic. Then it will explain the process of corporatization of agriculture in India. It will explain in the detail that how the agriculture sector corporatized in India. After that it will show the impact of corporatization of agriculture in India. It will analyze the impact of corporatization of agriculture on farmers, production and food security. After that it will be concluded with some recommendation to overcome the agrarian crisis Indian facing today due to corporatization of agriculture sector.