Structural Changes to the Public Sector and Cultural Incompatibility: The Consequences of Inadequate Cultural Integration

Being at a global development crossroad under an era plagued by major global challenges including financial crisis, poor governance, economic inequalities, climate change, food insecurity, human rights injustices, among others calls for a concerted effort from all the stakeholders to play a critical role in development. These roles are to be embraced through market-driven and people-centered modalities that seek to address inefficiency in service delivery and unequal distribution of economic gains. To foster this, the public sector is at the central point in driving institutional reforms in safeguarding progressive development-oriented norms and practices within an economy. In this regard, strategic reforms ought to be upheld as multifaceted processes that involve social structural changes, attitudinal changes, national institutions reforms, economic growth acceleration, reduction of inequalities, and poverty eradication. Restructuring, participation, public-private partnership, accountability, human-resource issues are some of the reformation strategies identified in this chapter.

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NEW HARVESTER OF CABBAGE

Vestnik of Kazan state agrarin university ◽

10.12737/article_5afc1d8f606365.73298905 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 102-107

Author(s):

Сергей Алатырев ◽

Sergey Alatyrev ◽

Петр Мишин ◽

Petr Mishin ◽

Алексей Алатырев ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Structural Changes ◽

The Body ◽

Vegetable Crops ◽

The Public ◽

Multivariate Technique ◽

Spontaneous Migration ◽

Harvesting Process ◽

State Agricultural Academy

In recent years, significant structural changes have taken place in agricultural production, small forms of management have developed substantially. A spontaneous migration of a significant part of the vegetable crops from the public sector to personal subsidiary and farming enterprises occurred. In this situation, the concept of creating for the current consumer a multivariate technique that adapts to changing production and agro-technical conditions has become relevant. In order to implement the above-mentioned concept, a multivariate cabbage harvester was developed in the Chuvash State Agricultural Academy together with JSC “TechMA” of “Tekhmashholding” group of companies, equipped with radically new working units: a cutting device, a separating device, a bulk transporter, a copying mechanism, cabbage in a sparing regime. The harvester allows to organize the harvesting process of cabbage in three technological schemes: shipment of cabbage in bulk to a universal vehicle device; shipment of cabbage to the containers, installed in the body of the vehicle; by shipping the cabbage first to a flexible floor of a trough-like shape, and then manually shifted to containers.

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Analyzing complexities in the Brazilian soybean supply chain: a systems thinking and modeling approach

RAUSP Management Journal ◽

10.1108/rausp-03-2021-0053 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Monique Filassi ◽

Andréa Leda Ramos de Oliveira ◽

Arun Abraham Elias ◽

Karina Braga Marsola

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Public Sector ◽

Systems Thinking ◽

Structural Changes ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

Transport Systems ◽

Loop Modeling ◽

Content Type ◽

The Public

Purpose This study aims to analyze the complexities of the Brazilian soybean supply chain (SSC) and develop strategic interventions to improve the origin system’s performance. Design/methodology/approach This study used stakeholder interviews to identify the SSC bottlenecks and determine and assess drivers of competitiveness. A methodological framework based on the systems thinking approach for developing long-term structural changes was used. The problem was structured using behavior over time graph and causal loop modeling to propose three investment strategies to solve the logistics problem in SSC. Findings This study highlights the gaps in coordination between stakeholders and the public sector regarding the public policy for infrastructure investment. Three strategic interventions were developed to address the agro-industrial logistical problem, namely, investment in storage, multimodal transport systems and improvements in existing transport infrastructure. To overcome transport and storage logistics limitations, the authors suggest different forms of partnerships, including public-private partnerships. Research limitations/implications This research is limited to evaluating an agricultural commodity (soybean) and does not include its by-products. The sample of stakeholders was limited and the boundary of analysis was Brazil. Nevertheless, the study showed how strategic interventions could be developed following a holistic analysis. Practical implications The proposed integrated approach illustrates the development of three strategic initiatives. It can be implemented by stakeholders, including the public sector, which is the basis for providing assertive long-term investments in Brazilian logistics. Social implications The SSC analysis could promote the implementation of systemically determined interventions and strategies. It could significantly improve the performance of agricultural systems and help the formulation of public policies aimed at rural development. Originality/value The use of system dynamics to identify intervention points is an essential contribution to mitigating the SSC’s hindrances. Moreover, the combining methodologies resulted in comprehensive intervention strategies.

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The financialization of local governments—the case of financial rationality in the management of Norwegian hydroelectric utilities

Socio-Economic Review ◽

10.1093/ser/mwy026 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 725-743 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tomas Hostad Løding

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Financial Markets ◽

Cultural Change ◽

Local Governments ◽

World Economy ◽

Structural Changes ◽

Financial Capital ◽

Global Finance ◽

The Public ◽

Market Practices

Abstract Research on the diminishing distance between global financial markets and traditional nonfinancial actors has increased dramatically over the last decade, most commonly captured in the notion of ‘financialization’. This literature has largely been preoccupied with a confluence of structural changes in the state and in the economy that advance the power and scope of financial capital. However, scholars have also provided evidence for cultural change in the framework in which people think about finance and property. Despite the fact that governments have increasingly engaged in heterodox financial market practices, this culturalized analysis has not yet been extended to the public sector. Based on interview data from Norwegian municipal owners of hydroelectric utilities, this article suggests that a rationality attuned to a financialized world economy is disseminating into public sector management. The article concludes by discussing what this means in a sector traditionally governed by a logic rather alien to that of global finance.

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