scholarly journals Role of Intergovernmental Relationships on Local Industrial Policy Making in Devolution: Case Study of the Act on Formation and Development of Regional Industrial Clusters through Promotion of Establishment of New Business Facilities, etc.

E-journal GEO ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-88
Author(s):  
Sato Masashi
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
New Business ◽  
Intergovernmental Relationships

Debunking myths about oil: A case study of oil subsidies

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-200
Author(s):  
Jung Taek Han ◽  
Seo Yeon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Oil Politics ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
States Government ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Mass Participation

Despite increasing demands for the reform of oil subsidies, the United States government fails to enact substantial reform policies on the issue. The paper visits the biggest unresolved cleavage in the environmental policy literature where there have been no attempts to quantitatively assess the influence of lobbying and mass participation on the policy-making process. It thus attempts to quantify and examine various factors behind legislators’ votes, and the results are hard to square with a pure lobbying model. While the role of lobbying is certainly not ruled out of the explanatory model per se, this paper observed that congressional preferences may instead also be driven by the voter perception towards environmental regulation in each state. The thrust of the argument is that lobbying, while being a decisive factor, may not be the only one influencing legislators’ decisions for the oil subsidy reform bills. This study hypothesizes that the exchange model theory might not fully provide an explanation of why oil subsidies continuously fall through. It suggests that oil politics may instead follow the neo-pluralist model: While lobbying is an important factor in voting results, legislators are mindful of voters’ perspectives in spite of the fact that they are unorganized—and that they might in fact be even more powerful determinants than the lobby variable.

scholarly journals Análise sobre ação empreendedora e políticas públicas no APL moveleiro de UBÁ, MG

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-244
Author(s):  
Andréia Aparecida Albino ◽  
Afonso Augusto Teixeira de Freitas de Carvalho Lima ◽  
Sebastião Décio Coimbra de Souza ◽  
Ricardo Roberto Behr ◽  
Ronise Suzuki de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Local Cluster ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action ◽  
Survey Interviews ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Based on recognized importance of industrial clusters for the socio-economic development of regions, this work presents a case study involving the evolution, discussions on the role of entrepreneurial activities and the influence of public policies on the development of the furniture cluster of Ubá, Minas Gerais. The methodology adopted included a survey, interviews with strategic actors of the cluster, and analysis comparative data. Preliminary results indicate that public policies had limited involvement in the emergence and development of APL, and indicate the need to investigate the diversity of patterns of business components of local cluster order to propose appropriate policies for each different type of companies. The main conclusion is that the key role in the genesis and development of the furniture cluster of Ubá was the entrepreneurial action of the local businessmen.

scholarly journals Implementation Biases of the Antitrust System in Korea: Causes and Consequences

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (0) ◽  
pp. 59-89
Author(s):  
Jong Won Choi
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Monopoly Regulation ◽  
Current Implementation ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Complex Structural ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations ◽  
Economic Concentration

In this paper, we identify three systematic performance biases in the Korean antitrust system: the absence of structural enforcement, the minimal role of antitrust agencies in anticompetitive major industrial policy-making, and the biased conception of the problems of economic concentration. After examining five competing hypothesis based on current implementation literature, we attribute the performance biases mainly to the limited bureaucratic expertise and skills required for complex structural enforcement and to the biased perceptions and expectations, inherent in the policy environment, about the roles of the antitrust system. Further, we connect the two factors above, found in the post-decision period, with some conspicuous features of the preceding enactment process of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act.

scholarly journals “The Role of MSMEs in the Restitution and Development of the Indonesian Economy”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Indrakusuma Loanoto
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Good Corporate Governance ◽  
New Business ◽  
Medium Enterprises

In this Covid-19 era, many companies are required to run new business platforms, but many of these companies are not able to keep up with the growing business trends. Of course, in anticipating changes in the competitive climate in the digital era, companies can carry out transformation programs and also implement good corporate governance values to avoid the dangers and risks of failure. This research uses a case study that focuses on efforts to foster Medium, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) that contribute to improving the Indonesian economy.

What Drives Unequal Policy Responsiveness? Assessing the Role of Informational Asymmetries in Economic Policy-Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (14) ◽  
pp. 2213-2245
Author(s):  
Mads Andreas Elkjær
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Macroeconomic Policies ◽  
Data Set ◽  
State Of The Economy ◽  
Economic Elites ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

Recent scholarship on inequality and political representation argues that economic elites are dominating democratic policy-making, yet it struggles to explain the underlying mechanisms. This article proposes that unequal responsiveness reflects asymmetries in information about fiscal policy across income classes, as opposed to being a structural bias inherent in capitalist democracy. I test the argument in a pathway case study of economic policy-making in Denmark, using a new data set that combines preference and spending data spanning 18 spending domains between 1985 and 2017. I find that governments that pursue standard macroeconomic policies coincidentally respond more strongly to the preferences of the affluent, owing to a closer adjustment of preferences to the state of the economy among citizens in upper income groups. These findings have important democratic and theoretical implications, as they suggest that unequal responsiveness may not reflect substantive misrepresentation of majority interests, but rather differences in information levels across groups.

Information Technology for Relational Business Ecosystems

2002 ◽  
pp. 52-69
Author(s):  
Luiz Antonio Joia
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Ecosystem ◽  
Technology Service ◽  
Engineering Company ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Business Ecosystems ◽  
New Business

This article presents a framework to integrate effectively different information technologies in order to coordinate a relational business ecosystem, an innovative business model. The information technologies needed to create this new business environment are presented, as well as an integrated model based on a technology-service-process-production taxonomy. A case study addressing a major engineering company in Brazil, now playing the role of an integrator within a relational business ecosystem is presented in order to validate the proposed model. Some conclusions in this realm are presented addressing the main obstacles and hurdles to accomplish a relational business ecosystem as well as the solutions to overcome them, so as to make the findings and concerns applicable to other countries.

Product-Service Systems as Enabler for Sustainability-Oriented Innovation

2013 ◽  
pp. 1106-1120
Author(s):  
Friedrich Grosse-Dunker ◽  
Erik G. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Product Innovations ◽  
Product Service ◽  
New Business ◽  
Product Service Systems

Corporations increasingly subscribe to the principles of corporate sustainability, which is generally described as the integration of economic, environmental, and social dimensions. As sustainability presents a new source of ideas and visions leading to new business opportunities and competitive advantage, the role of Sustainability-Oriented Innovation (SOI) is ever more emphasized. However, developing products under the paradigm of SOI is risky: both the product’s market success and (non-economic) sustainability effects are uncertain. Product-Service System (PSS) – i.e. a combination of products and services –constitutes a significant approach to overcome some of the limitations of SOI and, additionally, can spur the diffusion of SOI. In this chapter, we use an exploratory research strategy to further investigate the links between SOI and PSS. We present a case study on off-grid lighting in Kenya and analyze the sustainability effects on the product and PSS level. The complexity of SOI and the sustainability potentials of PSS are illustrated. Moreover, we also emphasize the role of a joint achievement of sustainability-oriented product innovations and PSS innovations.

scholarly journals Chinese entrepreneurs and workers at the crossroad: the role of social networks in ethnic industrial clusters in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Biggeri ◽  
Lisa Braito ◽  
Annalisa Caloffi ◽  
Huanhuai Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chinese Entrepreneurs ◽  
Worker Exploitation ◽  
Chinese Worker

PurposeThis paper aims to analyse the evolution of Chinese industrial ethnic clusters in Italy, by focusing on the role of social networks and the processes behind the phenomenon of Chinese worker exploitation and entrepreneur “self-exploitation”.Design/methodology/approachThe case study is a sub-cluster of micro and small enterprises owned by Chinese entrepreneurs within the leather industrial district of Florence, Italy. This research adopts the following mixed methods: a small-scale survey to capture the characteristics of the sub-cluster and a social network analysis to describe cluster evolution, complemented by life-course interviews conducted with key informants and entrepreneurs.FindingsMigrant social capital and social networks play a central role in the evolution of the case study sub-cluster. Social networks play a supportive role in migration, job creation, entrepreneurship formation and the creation of business opportunities. Simultaneously, they enhance the phenomenon of worker exploitation and entrepreneur self-exploitation. Furthermore, the more the business community grows, the more the economic performance of ethnic enterprises depends on agglomeration forces produced by the cluster.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest a series of potential policies to upgrade the ethnic enterprises' capacities, to increase their formality and inclusion in the Italian social and economic systems and sub-cluster.Originality/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first attempt to examine the evolution of social networks in relation to the phenomenon of Chinese worker exploitation and entrepreneur self-exploitation in an ethnic industrial sub-cluster.

Information Technology for Intelligent Metabusiness

2001 ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Luiz A. Joia
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Technology Service ◽  
Engineering Company ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
New Business ◽  
Innovation Capital

This chapter presents a framework to integrate effectively different information technologies in order to raise the intelligence and manage the knowledge of a metabusiness, an innovative business model. The concept of intelligence in a metabusiness is analyzed and the information technologies needed to create this new business environment are presented, as well as an integrated model based on a technology-service-process-production taxonomy. A case study addressing a major engineering company in Brazil, now playing the role of an integrator within a metabusiness, is presented in order to validate the proposed model. The main obstacles and hurdles to accomplish an intelligent metabusiness are presented as well as the solutions to overcome them. Future trends and some conclusions in this realm are presented, mainly the ones regarding how to leverage the Human and Innovation Capital in a metabusiness.

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