Public Entrepreneurs Research Articles

Scratching the surface of urban change: Art collectives as public entrepreneurs

This article examines art collectives in Venice that use their artistic and cultural projects to act as public entrepreneurs seeking to improve urban welfare and elicit social change for reasons of societal betterment. These ventures are developed against a backdrop of ongoing socio-economic challenges arising from exploitative tourism in the city. Interviews with some art collective members revealed that: (1) their local rootedness is shaped by issues of gentrification and a search for a city that benefits all; (2) their core values are translated into artistic propositions addressing local demands and institutional voids and (3) their private goals have a public-service background. Our study unveils a unique type of entrepreneur that mediates local demands but has no significant impact at the policy level, thus only scratching the surface of institutional change. This insight contributes to our understanding of artists as public entrepreneurs who, despite their use of activist language channelling public demands, are constrained by the very institutional voids they seek to close.

Transforming Innovation into Success: The Key to Public Entrepreneurship Success in Public Organizations in Indonesia

This article aims to explore the significance of public entrepreneurship in achieving success and fostering innovation within public organizations in Indonesia. The background of the study highlights the growing recognition of the importance of entrepreneurship in the public sector and its potential to drive positive change and deliver better services to citizens. The research objective is to identify the key factors that contribute to the success of public entrepreneurship in Indonesia's public organizations. A qualitative research method, including interviews and case studies, was employed to gather data and analyze the experiences of successful public entrepreneurs. The findings reveal that factors such as leadership support, a conducive innovation ecosystem, collaboration with stakeholders, and a culture of risk-taking and experimentation are vital for the success of public entrepreneurship in Indonesian public organizations. This research provides valuable insights for policymakers, managers, and practitioners in fostering public entrepreneurship and harnessing the transformative power of innovation for the betterment of public service delivery in Indonesia.

The forging of moral leaders in social entrepreneurship: A comparative study from two public welfare organizations in China

Young people, including college students, are the main body for the main force of public welfare entrepreneurship and the effective force of future social entrepreneurs. How can college students, who are often self-made and lack entrepreneurial experience, social capital, and resources, grow up to be “moral leaders” of social entrepreneurship organizations? And what role does social entrepreneurship education play? Previous studies have not provided corresponding theoretical explanations to address these questions. This study uses as examples two public welfare organizations and their founders; namely, YinChao Pension Service Center in Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, and Ant Public Welfare Service Center in Yuyao City. The exploratory comparative research method of two cases is used, and the perspective is constructed based on personal significance. Through the open decoding analysis, this study refines the key elements of the individual growth of public entrepreneurs as “moral leaders,” including four stages: concept construction, moral conflict, relationship construction, and rule construction, as well as personal meaning construction strategy and public entrepreneurship education strategy. The research results not only explain how individuals grow up to be “moral leaders” in public welfare organizations through self-meaning construction in the context of public welfare entrepreneurship and the construction process from individual to organization morality systems but also provide a theoretical framework for cultivating successful public welfare entrepreneurs and a theoretical reference for the sustainable development of public welfare entrepreneurs and public welfare entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities.

Value Creation in Private and Public Sector: Impact of Social Entrepreneurship on Identifying the Performance

The research article has been pointing out on value creation to improve performance of business. In the country, private and public entrepreneurs have played the most effective role as social entrepreneurs. In the marketplace, social entrepreneurs mainly provided services to the social people. In this regard, value creation has helped social entrepreneurs to improve performance. Along with that, this research article has adopted secondary thematic analysis to understand the importance of value creation in social enterprise performance. Value creation has provided a significant strategy to the business organization to develop efficiency in the marketplace. Keyword :Gross Domestic Products (GDP), information and communication technologies (ICT), customer’s satisfaction, value creation.

Agenda informacijski sustav za plovne putove

Informatisation of the public administration of the Slovak Republic aims to create a functional architecture of the integrated information system. This system also includes the development of Agenda information systems that provide electronic services in the most automated mode, according to the principle all at once. In the field of water transport, there is currently no fully functional agenda information system. Creating an Agenda Information System (AIS) will allow multi-channel electronic access to public transport services in water transport. The complex information solution of the water transport agenda will be digitalized for individual applications and submissions. Part of the Waterway Agenda Information System will also be the establishment of a client zone, an online tool that will provide online information for users and providers. This tool will allow personalized client notifications that simplify the process for all parties involved (public administration, entrepreneurs, or individuals).

PENGARUH PENURUNAN TARIF PAJAK UMKM DAN SISTEM PELAYANAN ONLINE TERHADAP PERSEPSI WAJIB PAJAK (STUDI KASUS PADA UMKM YANG TERDAFTAR DI KPP SEMARANG BARAT)

<p><em>Taxes are the largest source of state revenue, which is around 70%, so the government tries to increase tax revenues as much as possible by making policies that can later attract people to pay taxes. One of the government's policies is to reduce the final tax rate for public entrepreneurs, which is expected to make public entrepreneurs obedient to pay taxes. And take advantage of technological developments by conducting online tax services both in registration, reporting and tax payment. This study aims to determine the effect of decreasing MSME tax rates and online service systems on taxpayers 'perceptions of MSME taxpayers' compliance that are registered at the West Semarang KPP either partially or simultaneously. This research is quantitative research. The study population is a UMKM taxpayer registered at the West Semarang KPP. The sample was selected using the probability sampling method, which determines a random sample by taking 98 respondents as samples in this study. Data collection method is by field study. Test the feasibility of data on data taken using the validity and reliability test. Hypothesis testing uses multiple linear regression models, so it needs to be held a classic assumption test on the research data obtained. The results of the multiple linear regression test for the variable reduction in MSME tax rates and online service systems have a significant effect on taxpayers' perceptions of MSME taxpayer compliance, both simultaneously and partially.</em><em></em></p><p class="IsiAbstractBahasaInggris"><em> </em><em></em></p>

Contextualising public entrepreneurship in Greek local government austerity

PurposePublic entrepreneurs are an under-researched group in local government. The purpose of this paper is to explore the contextual complexities of public entrepreneurs who pursue more creative ways of “doing more with less” to cope with dynamic financial and societal anxieties of Greek local government fiscal austerity policy reforms. Precisely, this study aims to the understanding of how specific contextual influences impact, first, on the nature of public entrepreneurship and, second, on manifested outcomes. A systematic approach marks the authors attempt to assess the broader impact pointing out the implications for research, policy and practice.Design/methodology/approachA case study of Greek local government draws on 26 in-depth semi-structured interviews with public entrepreneurs across top, middle and front-line levels of management, field notes, documentary and archival evidence.FindingsThe findings demonstrate unique Greek contextual complexities such as contradictory tensions between triggered decentralisation of control and responsibilities of the local government and attempts of external reinvention rather than internal renewal. These complexities influence public entrepreneurs’ systemic entrepreneurship behaviours in Greek local government since the implementation of fiscal austerity policy reforms in 2010. Their representation is manifest in policy, administrative and technological outcomes with public value consequences.Originality/valueThis research contributes to a deeper understanding of public entrepreneurship in context. Greek local government public entrepreneurs bring original insights on the contextual influences of their systemic enactment and manifested outcomes, with implications for research, policy and practice.

Theoretical perspectives on public entrepreneurship

PurposeThe interest in entrepreneurship in the public sector is recognized as an emergent phenomenon in the field of entrepreneurship. Existing theoretical work is limited in helping understand how entrepreneurship in public agencies occurs. The paper aims to discuss this issue.Design/methodology/approachThis is a conceptual paper which develops the literature.FindingsBuilding on the work of Klein et al. (2010) this paper contributes to theoretical development by providing an overview of public sector entrepreneurship (PSE). Although, there are similar features shared by private and PSE, it is proposed that there are significant differences between them, particularly in that public sector enterprise can be seen as entrepreneurship without entrepreneurs.Research limitations/implicationsAs a conceptual paper on PSE the literature is predominantly UK based.Practical implicationsThis paper brings entrepreneurship from the periphery to the core of the theoretical debates, as it is an under-researched area. Moreover, theoretical development has implications for policy and practice as existing research is disparate.Originality/valueThe paper considers how entrepreneurship and enterprise in the public sector is formulated. The significance of the paper is to highlight the importance of public entrepreneurs in working alongside a multitude of stakeholders to deal with numerous global and internal environment forces ethically amongst on-going budgetary and fiscal constraints. The contribution is the highlighting of the difficulties and concerns when uniting the discourse of market-based entrepreneurship and the discourse of public sector service provision.

Transforming a traditional research organization through public entrepreneurship

Public entrepreneurship is much like its private sector counterpart; however, public entrepreneurs face additional challenges due to weaker competitive forces in the public as compared to private sector, with objectives that often are poorly defined and performance that is difficult to measure. Despite the impact on public good, how to enact changes successfully in public sector organizations to be more entrepreneurial is poorly understood. This article summarizes current research on public entrepreneurship and presents a detailed case study of a successful entrepreneurial change in a public sector organization. A five-step change process used to enhance entrepreneurial behaviors was implemented in a public sector organization and the qualitative and quantitative results demonstrated substantial performance improvements over 4 years (i.e., quantitative performance in some areas was more than 10 times greater). We explain key steps that produced successful outcomes and how to avoid common challenges in the implementation of ongoing entrepreneurial behaviors in public sector contexts.

Zasady postępowania w sprawach z zakresu działalności gospodarczej unormowane w ustawie Prawo przedsiębiorców

Ustawa z 6 marca 2018 r. Prawo przedsiębiorców (u.p.p.) normuje zasady związane z podejmowaniem i wykonywaniem działalności gospodarczej zdecydowanie inaczej, niż czyniła to poprzednio obowiązująca ustawa z 2 lipca 2004 r. o swobodzie działalności gospodarczej. Przepisy dotyczące postępowania w relacjach między administracją a przedsiębiorcami stanowią w dużej mierze nową materię publicznego prawa gospodarczego. Zasady procesowe zamieszczone są w rozdz. I: Przepisy ogólne i w rozdz. III: Załatwianie spraw z zakresu działalności gospodarczej. Niektóre z zasad powtarzają zasady ogólne postępowania administracyjnego unormowane w k.p.a. (por. art. 28 u.p.p. i art. 7b k.p.a.). W ten sposób Prawo przedsiębiorców przenosi na płaszczyznę publicznego prawa gospodarczego podstawowe zasady (wartości, idee) Konstytucji RP (np. art. 12). Ustawa ta normuje też szereg nowych zasad, w tym takie, które wyrażają idee ujęte po raz pierwszy w formę obowiązujących norm prawnych. Szczególnym przykładem jest zasada zaufania do przedsiębiorcy (art. 10 ust. 1); wyraża ona nowy standard w relacjach administracja publiczna– przedsiębiorca. Unormowanie tej zasady wzmacnia gwarancje procesowe dla przedsiębiorców. Mimo że zasady postępowania unormowane w Prawie przedsiębiorców nie stanowią spójnego zbioru, to – z uwagi na ich uniwersalny charakter oraz rangę i miejsce tej ustawy w obszarze publicznego prawa gospodarczego – mogą służyć za bazę normatywną proceduralnego publicznego prawa gospodarczego.

Understanding labour exploitation in the Spanish agricultural sector using an agent based approach

Using an agent-based model we explore the model of slavery in modern business developed by Crane (2013). Taking the Spanish agricultural sector—specifically the area of Campo de Dalías in Almería where much of Europe's vegetables are grown—as a case, we find that labour exploitation flourishes in communities of like-minded companies that do not care about mainstream norms. We confirm which socio-economic aspects of labour demand/supply lead to slavery, while challenging the assumption that markets which are dominated by few employers are more prone to exploiting workers. We find that, regarding isolation and connectedness of employers, cluster effects and intense inter-employer communication are particularly effective drivers of underpayment if the cluster is homogenous in terms of wage level and if it is isolated from law-abiding employers. This means that employers tend to confirm and reinforce each other in their illegal behaviour, thus creating enclaves in which non-standard norms prevail and worker exploitation is regarded as legitimate. On the other hand, we see that breaking the isolation of employees among each other only increases pay levels if there are law-abiding employers, pointing to the potentially beneficial role social business and entrepreneurs, state-owned companies, or public entrepreneurs could play for transforming labour conditions of entire markets.

Vecinos, patrimonio, instituciones y cuentapropistas en La Habana Vieja. Santo Ángel desde dentro

Este artículo nos lleva hasta Santo Ángel, pequeño barrio de la Habana Vieja expuesto en muy poco tiempo a nuevas formas de la economía mercantil. La investigación documenta las relaciones sociales existentes entre los vecinos de siempre —y su patrimonio privado—, las instituciones públicas, los nuevos vecinos, los nuevos emprendedores, los nuevos trabajadores y los turistas internacionales y analiza el proceso de transformación social y económica desde una comunidad estable, similar y basada en el principio de reciprocidad hasta otra provisional, compleja y diferenciada.

A place-based developmental regional industrial strategy for sustainable capture of co-created value

This paper critically assesses recent place-based approaches to industrial and regional policy epitomised in the EU’s 2020 ‘smart specialisation’ programme. It suggests that these are a move in the right direction in so far as they acknowledge ‘place’ as a key, constituent part of policymaking. Drawing upon examples from across the world, we emphasise the importance of regions pursuing strategies that allow them to capture—in a sustainable way—a part of the value they help create and co-create with other entities, such as multinational firms and other organisations. This involves policymakers acting as public entrepreneurs, devising and implementing strategies, structures and policies to enable the regional ecosystem and its constituent parts to capture value sustainably. In addition to the extant focus on linkages and embeddedness, a key aspect of this involves the adoption of regional value capture and positioning strategies.

Seleção e monitoramento de empreendedores públicos à luz da gestão por competências

Resumo Este artigo busca compreender, à luz da gestão por competências, como ocorreram a seleção e o monitoramento dos resultados de servidores em cargos de provimento em comissão de recrutamento amplo, designados como empreendedores públicos (EPs). Também busca refletir sobre de que forma a gestão por competências contribui para a gestão desses cargos e para a agregação de valor para a administração pública. Para atender ao objetivo, foi enviado um questionário a 132 EPs em exercício e exonerados até a data da pesquisa, e entrevistados dois gestores do programa. As respostas apontam que o modelo de competências para a seleção atende às expectativas dos dirigentes e dos candidatos. Contudo, os instrumentos de monitoramento enfrentam problemas de gestão, como dificuldade de mensuração das entregas e atuação desalinhada da estratégia de governo e da ação inicialmente proposta para o cargo.

A Stakeholders’ Analysis of Eastern Mediterranean Landscapes: Contextualities, Commonalities and Concerns

This study aims at demonstrating and critically assessing high-level landscape stakeholders’ perceptions and understandings of landscape-related issues, threats and problems, in the Eastern Mediterranean, through a purposive comparative research survey of four case studies: Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Lebanon. Employing qualitative data analysis of intensive stakeholder interviews, performed in the broader context of the MEDSCAPES ENPI-MED project (www.enpi-medscapes.org), the paper draws together the insights and concerns of a total of 61 public entities, private entrepreneurs, academicians and NGO representatives, on landscape knowledge, understanding, management and public awareness, in these four countries. The results point to significant commonalities among them and begin to show relational and synthetic nature of the interrelationship between humans and the landscape, as it developed in the context of the local and regional geographies and histories of this broader region, affected by and involving a series of relevant geophysical, economic, political, social, moral, institutional and other parameters.

Networks of entrepreneurs driving the Triple Helix: two cases of the Dutch energy system

Entrepreneurs are often envisioned as small private start-up firms operating against all odds. Here, we investigate how in the context of the Triple Helix various entrepreneurs form communities and drive institutional and technological change. To theoretically shape a socialized view of entrepreneurship, we use the Triple Helix approach. Our empirical basis is a highly regulated sector driven by various agents, i.e. the Dutch energy system. As it depends very much on natural gas and relies less on renewables compared to similar countries, we analyse two cases where entrepreneurs drove the uptake of renewable energy sources.In our paper, we investigate how entrepreneurs from the private, public and academic sectors drive the evolution of the Triple Helix. From our results, two general features of entrepreneurship in the Triple Helix emerge. First of all, private stand-alone enterprises do not mirror entrepreneurs at large. Second, networks of various entrepreneurs are much more common and much more complex than usually anticipated. More specifically, we find that there are rather divergent developments in Dutch energy systems. Whereas in the case of Aardwarmte Den Haag, a number of key players collaborated in order to realize one specific technology, in the LochemEnergie case, we see a project-to-project approach supported by subsidies. In both cases, a variety of entrepreneurs from the private, public and academic sectors with different roles, goals, incentives, resources, knowledge and policy levers drive the development of their energy system. It depends on the actual situation on who has the incentives and resources to be in charge and act and to include others when it seems necessary.Entrepreneurs in such a set-up require particular skills including the ability to engage with their (knowledge) network, identify gaps, attract new participants and motivate the new and existing participants. Entrepreneurs managing these networks handle a whole range of semi-unpredictable actors and environmental factors that also influence each other; therefore, they can be defined as truly complex socio-technological systems. As the development of local energy initiatives unfold along the way, entrepreneurs have to be flexible and open to organizational change. While large organizations such as municipalities or large multinational companies are usually less flexible, they might create space for smaller entrepreneurial activities by supporting individuals, start-ups or academics in finding novel solutions. At the same time, a major role for public entrepreneurs lies in stimulating and subsidizing entrepreneurs and their networks.The analytical framework provided here can be used to study the principles of the Triple Helix concept in a dynamic environment in which technological innovation requires the expertise and capabilities of multiple types of actors. Its function is not only to identify roles and types of entrepreneurs and their incentives, but to also assess which resources (knowledge, skills, subsidies) they can contribute to the initiative.

Atuação de empreendedores públicos na formulação de um programa de apoio ao desenvolvimento juvenil

The main objective is to comprehend the acting of public entrepreneurs in the public policy formulation stage which resulted in a Training and Digital Experience Center in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The context of the creation of such a center is the implementation of the State Program for Results (EPR) that gave rise to positions of Public Entrepreneurs (PEs), high professional technical and management level, hired to support the projects and government programs. The content analysis technique was applied from data collected in bibliographies, documents and interviews with PEs who participated in the formulation stage of this public policy in the city of Belo Horizonte. As results, it was evident that although the Public Entrepreneurs are good performers of public policy, they are not necessarily good makers. Nevertheless, credited the results of public policy to the networks training capacity, innovation and focus on the results of these professionals.

Configurations of Confucian Entrepreneurship in the Asian Public Sector: A Preliminary Study of South Korean Public Organizations

In any organization, creativity is an important resource to ensure survival in a competitive market. Recently, entrepreneurship has been highlighted as a means of improving the public sector’s quality. Many public organizations have created innovative ways of managing their employees for administrative reform activities. Yet, in the public sector, few studies have attempted to systematically model the actions of public entrepreneurs in well-defined contexts. Based on the research question (Could a special form of entrepreneurship based on Confucian values be discovered in Confucian Asian countries?), this study focuses on public organizations in South Korea as a means of exploratory research to extend previous studies on the uniform and universal attributes of entrepreneurship. This study confirms the existence of Confucian and entrepreneurial values in South Korean public organizations, identifies relationships between Confucianism and entrepreneurship, develops a Confucian Asia Entrepreneurship (CAE) index, and compares the differences among South Korean public organizations. The empirical analysis shows that there are significant similarities and differences among South Korean public organizations and raises the examples in applying our CAE index. In sum, the overall findings of the analysis suggest that there are meaningful relationships between Confucianism and entrepreneurship that should be addressed.

Entrepreneurship in Public Management: The Case of Sri Lanka Administrative Service

The role of entrepreneurship in public management remains in debate. Despite the debatable arguments to regarding public entrepreneurship, this paper argues that the concept still has validity of utilizing as a tool for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of public service. By using Hunter’s reputational snowballing technique to identify public entrepreneurs among Sri Lanka’s administrative service, this study presents the preliminary findings based on a recent empirical study and examines their administrative and decision-making roles towards desired changes in the public service in Sri Lanka. During the period of October 2002 and March 2003, the study gathered the data through in-depth interviews of 25 officers in the Sri Lanka Administrative Service. The results of the study indicate that public managers’ motivation to achieve and their leadership skills, goal clarity, managerial autonomy, performance-based reward system, citizen participation and public support represent major factors contributing to public entrepreneurship in the Sri Lanka Administrative Service. This study also finds that there are entrepreneurs in the Sri Lanka public service. Also the paper argues that there are opportunities and potential in the service to work as entrepreneurs who are innovative, proactive and willing to take some risks beyond their work responsibilities. Further, the author argues that there are significant benefits when the entrepreneurship is applied to public management. Therefore the necessary reforms are needed to sustain such initiatives of public entrepreneurs towards more effectiveness and efficiency of public service.

Public entrepreneurship and sub-clinical psychopaths: a conceptual frame and implications

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to adapt the research conducted on subclinical psychopaths in the private sector and applies it to the public sector to build a conceptual frame for further research on subclinical psychopaths in public organisations. General characteristics of entrepreneurs often run counter to democratic values, and are more often aligned with private sector values. Public managers who display one of the dark-triad personalities, i.e., psychopathy, can pose a greater threat to democratic values and the state.Design/methodology/approachThe approach of this paper is theoretical with the aim of proposing a conceptual framework that utilises Downs’ five types of officials governing bureaucracies, to illustrate a relationship between public entrepreneurs and subclinical psychopaths.FindingsThe conceptual framework presented in this paper suggests that psychopathic entrepreneurs can be identified within Downs’ bureaucratic framework specifically as climbers (due to inherent personality traits) and as zealots (heroic and altruistic behaviour for organisational causes, yet motivated by power, domination, and self-interest). The implications of psychopathic public managers who engage in entrepreneurial activities may be escalating public distrust, hostility, and dissatisfaction in government.Originality/valueThis theoretical paper adds to the growing body of criticism for public entrepreneurship by conceptualising how psychopaths, as climbers and zealots, affect public trust in terms of accountability and democratic values.