Policy entrepreneurs and collaborative action: pursuit of the sustainable development goals

Mintrom, Michael; Thomas, Madeline

doi:10.1504/ijev.2018.092710

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“…Crossing domain, level, and sector boundaries requires significant political and strategic work (Mintrom and Thomas 2018;Briassoulis 2004;Candel and Biesbroek 2016). Recent studies suggest that policy entrepreneurs play an important role in crossing and bridging boundaries (Faling et al 2018a;Mintrom and Thomas 2018;Schaltegger et al 2018), but our understanding of the boundary-crossing process and the role of policy entrepreneurs therein is limited at best (Candel and Biesbroek 2016;van Meerkerk and Edelenbos 2018;Faling et al 2018a). The relevant literature has long treated policy entrepreneurs as individuals acting in a void, but increasingly acknowledges the need to incorporate the policy environment that co-determines whether, when, how, and with what effect policy entrepreneurs operate (Mintrom and Norman 2009;Bakir and Jarvis 2017;Faling et al 2018a).…”

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Cross-boundary policy entrepreneurship for climate-smart agriculture in Kenya

Faling

Biesbroek

2019

Policy Sci

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Many initiatives to address contemporary complex challenges require the crossing of sector, domain, and level boundaries, which policy entrepreneurs are believed to facilitate. This study aims to enhance our understanding of how, why, and with what effect such entrepreneurs operate to cross boundaries. As this requires an account of both entrepreneurial strategy and the surrounding policy environment, we embed entrepreneurship in the policy frameworks of multiple streams, advocacy coalitions, and punctuated equilibrium. We use qualitative methods to analyse policy development for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Kenya. CSA is a cross-cutting strategy to sustainably increase agricultural productivity, resilience, and food security while curtailing greenhouse gas emissions. Our results demonstrate that policy entrepreneurs target varying ideas, interests, and institutions across boundaries in order to establish cross-boundary linkages, but this requires additional resources including connections, funding, and time. Simultaneously, this process offers opportunities, for instance, regarding choice of audience and potential resources to tap. Cross-boundary entrepreneurial strategies include venue shopping to soften up communities; framing CSA in multiple ways to address different audiences; demonstrating brokerage between coalitions through impartial leadership and creating a neutral institutional setting; and process manipulation to bypass complexities arising from the scattered policy environment. Although entrepreneurs managed to realize the adoption of a Kenya CSA strategy, the process displays limited changes in policymakers' ideas; the policy remains the main responsibility of the agriculture ministry alone and receives limited support from local authorities. This raises questions regarding the cross-boundary nature and implementability of this strategy.

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Cross-boundary policy entrepreneurship for climate-smart agriculture in Kenya

Faling

Biesbroek

2019

Policy Sci

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“…Actors, embedded in policy processes, thus deserve more structural attention (van Meerkerk and Edelenbos 2018). Various studies suggest that policy entrepreneurship is crucial in pushing and strengthening cross-boundary policy processes (Peters 2015, Candel and Biesbroek 2016, Jochim and May 2010, Mintrom and Thomas 2018, Schaltegger, Beckmann, and Hockerts 2018. Nevertheless, these studies provide limited conceptual insight into the conditions that facilitate the crossing of boundaries, the strategies entrepreneurs deploy to cross boundaries, and the effects of their cross-boundary behaviour.…”

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“…Crossing domain, level and sector boundaries requires significant political and strategic work (Mintrom and Thomas 2018, Briassoulis 2004, Candel and Biesbroek 2016. Recent studies suggest policy entrepreneurs play an important role in crossing and bridging boundaries , Mintrom and Thomas 2018, Schaltegger, Beckmann, and Hockerts 2018, but our understanding of the process of boundary-crossing and the role of policy entrepreneurs therein is limited at best (Candel and Biesbroek 2016, van Meerkerk and Edelenbos 2018). The policy entrepreneurship literature has long treated policy entrepreneurs as individuals acting in a void, but increasingly acknowledges the need to incorporate the policy environment that co-determines whether, when, how and with what effect policy entrepreneurs operate (Mintrom and Thomas 2018, Bakir and Jarvis 2017.…”

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Strategizing beyond boundaries : policy entrepreneurship for climate-smart agriculture

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Many contemporary climate change and food security initiatives, including climatesmart agriculture (CSA), call for connecting and integrating different government levels, policy domains, and organizations. This boundary-crossing is frequently accompanied by difficulties including turf wars and power struggles, which risk to thwart policy development. Although the literature argues that policy entrepreneurship contributes to the crossing of level, domain, and organizational boundaries, knowledge on these dynamics is fragmented, and insights into entrepreneurial strategies, embedded in the policymaking context, are limited. Consequently, the aim of this dissertation is to understand how policy entrepreneurship contributes to the crossing of boundaries to achieve CSA. The aim is addressed through three research questions: (i) how and why do policy entrepreneurs cross boundaries for climate-smart agriculture; (ii) how does the policymaking context influence cross-boundary policy entrepreneurship for climate-smart agriculture; and (iii) how can cross-boundary policy entrepreneurship in the policy process for climate-smart agriculture be conceptualized?To understand policy entrepreneurship's contribution to the crossing of boundaries, the dissertation focuses on two case studies of CSA policy development: the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture, and the National Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategy in Kenya. These cases have been studied through a mixed-methods research design, including a systematic literature review, congruence analysis, and frame analysis.

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Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

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The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call for action by all countries that provide a global framework for achieving global development while balancing social, economic, and environmental sustainability. SDGs are addressed to all actors in society, but both academia and professional recognize the particular importance of businesses. However, research is still needed to understand the role of companies as sustainable development agents. Relying on Scopus database consultation, the current research adopts an interdisciplinary systematic literature review to investigate, analyze, and present state-of-the-art academic literature on the role of businesses in tackling SDGs. The final sample comprises 101 papers published between 2015 and 2020. It provides evidence that the main topics discussed by scholars are related to aspects of strategy execution. Recognizing different streams that are currently unexplored-despite strictly related to strategic business activities and to the sustainable development as a whole-the study provides many insights for future research on business and SDGs.

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Policy entrepreneurs and collaborative action: pursuit of the sustainable development goals

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Cross-boundary policy entrepreneurship for climate-smart agriculture in Kenya

Cross-boundary policy entrepreneurship for climate-smart agriculture in Kenya

Strategizing beyond boundaries : policy entrepreneurship for climate-smart agriculture

Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

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