Public enterprises as policy instruments: the importance of public entrepreneurship

Bernier, Luc

doi:10.1080/17487870.2014.909312

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“…Public enterprises have been part of research for a couple of decades, but mainly in a public monopoly market environment, as that was the typical textbook case until the 1980s (Florio ). Today, these enterprises operate in a liberalized market context (Rentsch and Finger ) and have a more profit‐driven orientation than in the past (Luke and Verreynne ; Bernier ).…”

Section: Public Enterprises and The Relation To Npm And The Institutimentioning

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“…Today, the phenomenon of the public enterprise works in a very different world than that in which it was created (Bernier ). It competes in liberalized markets with other enterprises (Rentsch and Finger ) and is more profit‐driven than in the past (Luke and Verreynne ; Bernier ). Despite the advent of liberalization processes across the globe, public enterprises remain major economic players (Rentsch and Finger ).…”

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“…). Nevertheless, public enterprises are described as most resistant to change (Millward ) and as being ‘incompatible with manifestations of entrepreneurialism’ (Bernier : 258).…”

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“…), which has led to a bias in the literature toward those so‐called classic enterprises (Smith ). There are few systematic and high‐quality recent empirical studies on contemporary public enterprises (Bernier ; Florio ), even though they could offer a promising context in which to find and examine the emerging theme of public entrepreneurship (Luke and Verreynne ; Martens et al. ).…”

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Linking Two Worlds? Entrepreneurial Orientation in Public Enterprises: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

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2018

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Contemporary public enterprises differ from their forebears. Today, they are more similar to private enterprises, receiving far more attention than previously, when privatization processes all over the world were in the spotlight. Furthermore, the broad research stream of entrepreneurship has so far neglected the consideration of public enterprises. To set a future research agenda, the author examines the dispersed literature using an integrative and organizing framework to identify major topics and research findings. This paper reviews articles that investigate the entrepreneurship in contemporary public enterprises. Despite the growing scholarly interest globally, this systematic literature review indicates there is no more than a loose connection between the literature streams of public entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship. Specifically, the review shows that the multidimensional concept of entrepreneurial orientation has thus far been ignored, although autonomy plays a significant role in the literature review, namely in the context of the interference of the public owner. It also reveals other essential research gaps, such as the development of a modern theory of public enterprises. The linked research stream of public‐sector corporate entrepreneurship offers a broad area of scholarly research and should encourage further investigation.

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Section: Public Enterprises and The Relation To Npm And The Institutimentioning

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confidence: 99%

“…). Nevertheless, public enterprises are described as most resistant to change (Millward ) and as being ‘incompatible with manifestations of entrepreneurialism’ (Bernier : 258).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…This perspective has been largely neglected by innovation policy scholars and until recently by SOE-scholars as well. The latest attempts to discuss the role of SOEs in innovation and innovation policy (see Belloc 2014, Bernier 2014) look mostly at micro or firm level factors -i.e. incentives of managers, public entrepreneurship etc.…”

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State Owned Enterprises as Instruments of Innovation Policy

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Karo

2016

Ann Public Coop Econ

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This article expands the literature on the rationales and governance of state owned enterprises (SOEs). We show that SOEs could be seen as instruments of innovation policies and change agents within broader innovation systems that can overcome many of the conventional challenges of innovation policy and its implementation, from coordination and implementation of policies and innovation system actor networks to financing innovation. We review the existing literature on the rationales of SOEs and extend it to include innovation as a central rationale. Thereafter we provide a taxonomy that reveals the necessary policy and managerial conditions and constraints for using SOEs as instruments of innovation policy. We place some of the better-known innovation-oriented SOE successes and failures into this taxonomy and show that this approach will allow in future research to explore different SOE practices and potential for using SOEs as innovation policy instruments across countries.

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The nexus between non‐governmental organisations involved in conservation and profit‐seeking state‐owned enterprises: A potential alternative credibility enhancing mechanism for biodiversity disclosures?

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Adebayo

2024

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Responding to calls to incorporate biodiversity matters into accounting research, we attempt to provide a balance by moving away from the conventional focus on the reporting of biodiversity impacts and activities by public and private sector organisations, by focusing on how non‐governmental organisations active in the conservation space (CNGOs), interact with the public sector. In particular, we confine our study to explaining how South African state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) and CNGOs active in South Africa, report on their collaboration engagements. To explain the engagements between SOEs and CNGOs, we use their publicly available reports (annual/integrated) to explore the extent which these entities interact and collaborate. However, although several CNGOs operate in South Africa, we documented little evidence of formalised engagements between these SOEs and CNGOs, with Eskom being the notable exception. Notwithstanding the observed scant formalised reporting on engagements, we suggest that the reporting of CNGOs engagements could be harnessed to indirectly serve as alternative credibility enhancing mechanisms. In this way, it could contribute by attesting to the veracity of organisational biodiversity disclosures, and may provide a basis to hold these organisations to account for their contribution to environmental conservation, or degradation. In this context, we conclude by calling for a research agenda to investigate the relationship between CNGOs and their funding organisations, irrespective of whether they operate in the public or private sectors, as well as the potential of CNGOs to serve as advocacy and activism agents, thereby improving organisational biodiversity accountability.

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Public enterprises as policy instruments: the importance of public entrepreneurship

Cited by 60 publications

References 52 publications

Linking Two Worlds? Entrepreneurial Orientation in Public Enterprises: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Linking Two Worlds? Entrepreneurial Orientation in Public Enterprises: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

State Owned Enterprises as Instruments of Innovation Policy

The nexus between non‐governmental organisations involved in conservation and profit‐seeking state‐owned enterprises: A potential alternative credibility enhancing mechanism for biodiversity disclosures?

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