Enterprise Response to Public Policy Reforms: A Scan of Extant Literature and an Agenda for Future Research

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Venugopal ◽  
M.R. Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Policy Environment ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
International Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organizational Differences ◽  
Industry Sectors ◽  
Vast Range

This paper scans the studies that have investigated the response of enterprises to public policy reforms and suggests an agenda for future research. It traces the evaluation of the literature on relationship between environment and organization as a backdrop for reviewing the 12 key research papers in the international context. It shows that organizations have responded more to the changes in the regulatory environment than in other types of environment. It also points to the shift from unfocused strategy to focused strategy as a response to the public policy environment. The Indian studies scanned by the paper have covered a vast range from understanding the rationale for the public policy reform to responses in specific industry sectors. Against this scan, the paper suggests an agenda for future research in the areas of disaggregated stud ies, organizational processes in strategy reformulation, learning and innovation, corporate governance, and inter-organizational differences in responses. A significant item on the agenda is the study of response of public policy to changes in the firm's strategy. The paper hopes that the agenda would stimulate the preparation of concrete research proposals that would extend the knowledge base of the interaction between the enterprise and its policy environment.

Professional Virtue Reinforcements: A Necessary Complement to Technological and Policy Reforms

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Owen Brown ◽  
James A. Marcum ◽  
Martin T. Stuebs
Keyword(s):  
Trust Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Element ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Accounting Information Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technology Governance ◽  
Information Accessibility ◽  
Information Technology Governance

ABSTRACT Rapid advances in technology within accounting information systems (AIS) accompanied by an increase in information accessibility render organizations vulnerable to the misuse of confidential data. AIS professionals are uniquely equipped and positioned to address these information security risks and to strengthen the trust stakeholders and the public place in the AIS function. We contend that reforms to control and protect intelligence with improved systemic controls must be complemented with reforms to control and protect professional integrity. We propose a Systems Trust Model that elevates professional virtue as a fundamental and necessary control element that complements information technology governance and systemic controls. We then analyze the necessity and sufficiency of the trust model elements for creating and protecting system trust—regardless of additional opportunities and incentives present in new and evolving technologies in AIS. Implications for future research, AIS curriculum, and the AIS profession at large are discussed.

Public Inquiries, Policy Learning, and the Threat of Future Crises

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Stark
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Public Inquiry

This book is animated by a simple but very important question. Can post-crisis inquiries deliver effective lesson-learning which will reduce our vulnerability to future threats? Conventional wisdom suggests that the answer to this question should be an emphatic no. Inquiries are regularly vilified as costly wastes of time that illuminate very little and change even less. This book, however, draws upon evidence from an international comparison of post-crisis inquiries in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom to show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the post-crisis inquiry is an effective means of learning from disaster and that they consistently encourage policy reforms that enhance our resilience to future threats. This evidence is accompanied by a re-booted conceptualization of the public inquiry, which better recognizes the complexity of the modern state, the challenges of policy learning within it, and contemporary forms of public policy scholarship.

scholarly journals PUBLIC PERCEPTION ON GOVERNMENT SPENDING IN ACEH: AN ANALYSIS BASED ON MAQASID PERFORMANCE PAIRWISE MATRIX (MPPM)

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Dayyan ◽  
Mustafa Omar Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Measuring Efficiency ◽  
Infrastructure Health

Governments provide a host of goods and services to their citizens to achieve various socio-economic objectives. Such spending is done through various programs that include social security, education, infrastructure, health and economic. Several conventional approaches for measuring efficiency of government expenditure have been proposed in the literature. Most of these measures are quantitative in nature. For government spending based on Shari’ah oriented public policy (al-Siyasah al-Shar’iyyah), which is value loaded, there is a need for complementary qualitative yardstick to measure whether such spending achieves Maqasid al-Shari’ah. The present study has made use of content analysis to develop a Maqasid Performance Pairwise Matrix (MPPM), as one of the tools of Islamic oriented public policy (al-Siyasah al-Shar’iyyah); to measure the public perception on government expenditure in Aceh in eight areas and the extent to which the expenditure conforms to Maqasid al-Shari’ah. MPPM was used as an instrument to survey 233 respondents in Aceh. The data from the survey were validated analyzed using SPSS version 18.0. The findings from the study are mixed. Government spending in Aceh in Education and health achieved results at the level of Complements (Hajiyat), beyond the basic need (Daruriyat). Whereas in the other six areas, which include economics, public services and housing, government spending is only able to satisfy the basic needs of the Acehnese. The study concludes with recommendations and suggestions for future research. =========================================== Pemerintah menyediakan tempat barang dan jasa untuk warga negara mereka untuk mencapai berbagai tujuan sosial-ekonomi. Seperti pengeluaran, yang dilakukan melalui berbagai program termasuk jaminan sosial, pendidikan infrastruktur, kesehatan dan ekonomi. Beberapa pendekatan konvensional untuk mengukur efisiensi pengeluaran pemerintah telah ada dalam sejumlah literatur. Sebagian besar pendekatan ini bersifat kuantitatif. Untuk belanja pemerintah berdasarkan kebijakan publik yang berorientasi syariah (al-Siyasah al-Shar'iyyah), yang penuh dengan nilai- nilai, ada kebutuhan untuk melengkapi tolok ukur kualitatif untuk mengukur apakah pengeluaran tersebut mencapai Maqasid al-Syari'ah. Penelitian ini menggunakan analisis isi untuk mengembangkan Maqasid Kinerja Berpasangan Matrix (MPPM), sebagai salah satu alat kebijakan publik berorientasi Islami (al-Siyasah al-Shar'iyyah); untuk mengukur persepsi publik atas belanja pemerintah di Aceh pada delapan daerah serta sejauh mana pengeluaran sesuai dengan Maqasid al-Syari'ah. MPPM digunakan sebagai instrumen untuk menyurvei 233 responden di Aceh. Data dari survei ini dianalisis validitasnya dengan menggunakan SPSS versi 18.0. Temuan dari penelitian ini adalah bervariasi. Belanja pemerintah di Aceh dalam bidang pendidikan dan kesehatan mencapai hasil pada tingkat komplemen (Hajiyat), di luar kebutuhan dasar (Daruriyat). Sedangkan di enam daerah lain, yang meliputi ekonomi, pelayanan publik dan perumahan, belanja pemerintah hanya mampu memenuhi kebutuhan dasar masyarakat Aceh. Studi ini memberi kesimpulan dengan rekomendasi dan saran untuk penelitian di masa yang akan datang.

scholarly journals Achieving sustainability requires systemic business transformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Waddock
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Policy Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Systemic Transformation

Non-technical summary Achieving sustainability requires that businesses transform; however, it is virtually impossible in today's competitive environment for individual businesses to do what is needed to bring about systemic transformation. Instead, it is the context around businesses, including the public policy environment and changes by major actors, which must shift so that the pressures, constraints and demands on businesses can epimimetically drive their competitive instincts in the direction of wellbeing for all.

scholarly journals The Politics of Policy Resistance: Reconstructing Higher Education in Kosovo

2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Bache ◽  
Andrew Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Diffusion ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Lesson Drawing

This article considers attempts to incorporate lessons and transfer policies from Britain in the reconstruction of Higher Education in Kosovo after 1999. In doing so, it employs aspects of the lesson-drawing framework developed by Rose (1991 and 2001) and the related concepts of policy transfer and policy diffusion. Drawing on contributions from anthropology and democratization studies, we suggest development of the public policy frameworks for lesson drawing and policy transfer in circumstances characterised by asymmetric interdependence, in which the tactics and strategies of policy resistance by ‘subordinate’ recipient actors can be crucial. This article details the nature of policy resistance and sets out hypotheses for future research.

Assessments of User Comments With “Alternative Views” as a Function of Media Trust

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Marlene Kunst
Keyword(s):  
Online Discussions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Argument Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Media Trust ◽  
Heuristic Information Processing

Abstract. Comments sections under news articles have become popular spaces for audience members to oppose the mainstream media’s perspective on political issues by expressing alternative views. This kind of challenge to mainstream discourses is a necessary element of proper deliberation. However, due to heuristic information processing and the public concern about disinformation online, readers of comments sections may be inherently skeptical about user comments that counter the views of mainstream media. Consequently, commenters with alternative views may participate in discussions from a position of disadvantage because their contributions are scrutinized particularly critically. Nevertheless, this effect has hitherto not been empirically established. To address this gap, a multifactorial, between-subjects experimental study ( N = 166) was conducted that investigated how participants assess the credibility and argument quality of media-dissonant user comments relative to media-congruent user comments. The findings revealed that media-dissonant user comments are, indeed, disadvantaged in online discussions, as they are assessed as less credible and more poorly argued than media-congruent user comments. Moreover, the findings showed that the higher the participants’ level of media trust, the worse the assessment of media-dissonant user comments relative to media-congruent user comments. Normative implications and avenues for future research are discussed.

Women And Depression: Future Research, Clinical Practice, And Public Policy

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn M. Mazure ◽  
Laura J. Bierut ◽  
Steven D. Hollon ◽  
Susan G. Kornstein ◽  
Charlotte Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Future Research
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