scholarly journals Taking the Ombudsman Concept into the Private Sector: Notes on the Banking Ombudsman Scheme in New Zealand

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Nadja Tollemache
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
French Language ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
The Relationship

This article traces the development of the institution of Ombudsman in New Zealand and comments on the move of the idea from the public to the private sector. The article first discusses the historical tests for unlawfulness under the Ombudsmen Act 1962 and 1975, which focused on the public sector. The success of the Ombudsmen in the public sector then led to the appointment of New Zealand's first Banking Ombudsman in 1992, modelled on similar offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. However, the article discusses factors that distinguish New Zealand's Banking Ombudsman to that of the United Kingdom: the sequence of events, the structure of the office, and the relationship between the Parliamentary Ombudsman and those in the private sector. *Note: a French language summary of this article is provided at 244.

Organisational Challenges of Implementing E-Business in the Public Services

2011 ◽  
pp. 2231-2252
Author(s):  
Francesca Andreescu
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Strategy

Underpinning £136 billion of economic activity in the United Kingdom, Britain’s National Mapping Agency is a commercialising public sector organisation having trading fund status and existing in the intersection of two different spheres—the public and the private. Recognised as a leading participant in the geographic information industry, within which it is forging partnerships with key private sector companies, the organisation has enthusiastically grasped e-business as an all-embracing phenomenon and implemented a new strategy that transformed the way it did business. Drawing on longitudinal data gathered over a period of four years, this article explores the processes of strategic and organisational transformation engendered by e-business implementation in this organisation and discusses the successful elements, as well as some of the challenges to its change efforts.

Organisational Challenges of Implementing E-Business in the Public Services

2008 ◽  
pp. 833-853
Author(s):  
Francesca Andreescu
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Strategy

Underpinning £136 billion of economic activity in the United Kingdom, Britain’s National Mapping Agency is a commercialising public sector organisation having trading fund status and existing in the intersection of two different spheres—the public and the private. Recognised as a leading participant in the geographic information industry, within which it is forging partnerships with key private sector companies, the organisation has enthusiastically grasped e-business as an all-embracing phenomenon and implemented a new strategy that transformed the way it did business. Drawing on longitudinal data gathered over a period of four years, this article explores the processes of strategic and organisational transformation engendered by e-business implementation in this organisation and discusses the successful elements, as well as some of the challenges to its change efforts.

Organisational Challenges of Implementing E-Business in the Public Services

2009 ◽  
pp. 1665-1689
Author(s):  
Francesca Andreescu
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Strategy

Underpinning £136 billion of economic activity in the United Kingdom, Britain’s National Mapping Agency is a commercialising public sector organisation having trading fund status and existing in the intersection of two different spheres—the public and the private. Recognised as a leading participant in the geographic information industry, within which it is forging partnerships with key private sector companies, the organisation has enthusiastically grasped ebusiness as an all-embracing phenomenon and implemented a new strategy that transformed the way it did business. Drawing on longitudinal data gathered over a period of four years, this article explores the processes of strategic and organisational transformation engendered by e-business implementation in this organisation and discusses the successful elements, as well as some of the challenges to its change efforts.

Public Procurement and Transparency in the Private Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 176-194
Author(s):  
Tom Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Pay Differences ◽  
United Kingdom Government

This chapter begins by considering public procurement in the context of equality duties. The United Kingdom government has not used the Equality Act 2010’s regulation-making powers to impose specific statutory public procurement equality duties in England, but the Welsh and Scottish Ministers have made such regulations. Equality considerations are nonetheless relevant considerations in a public authority’s public procurement decisions as part of the general public sector equality duty in section 149 of the Act. The extent to which equality can (and should) be taken into account in the public procurement process is also, therefore, relevant to private undertakings which might wish to tender for the provision of goods or services to public authorities. The chapter then addresses the provisions in the Act intended to improve transparency in the private sector by prohibiting clauses which prevent employees discussing their pay. The Act introduced, in section 78, a power to make regulations which would impose a requirement on businesses to report on gender pay differences.

scholarly journals Propuesta de mejora en la calidad del aire: caso Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Joel Garcia Galvan ◽  
◽  
Martin G. Romero Morett ◽  
Maria Magdalena Velazquez Contreras ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Financial Analysis ◽  
Investment Project ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Focus ◽  
Didactic Material ◽  
The Relationship

This essay aims to analyze the various scenarios in economic activities and the relationship that exists between the Public Sector and the Private Sector, by proposing to work in a coordinated manner on an investment project with an environmental focus. For this case, about a decrease in air pollution in a part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (Jalisco, Mexico). Based on the information seen in the Seminar “Prospective, complex thinking and transdiscipline”, and as part of the indicated activities, was? didactic material that exemplifies the development of concepts, methodology and economic and financial analysis tools used in the subject of Formulation and Evaluation of Projects taught in the Economics Degree of the University of Guadalajara. The logical framework methodology is used, in which the relationship between the Public Sector and the Private Sector is articulated, as links that occur systematically in a complex environment, such as air pollution in cities and that it affects the public health of the population.

scholarly journals Scientific truth or debate: On the link between perceived scientific consensus and belief in anthropogenic climate change

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 778-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Bertoldo ◽  
Claire Mays ◽  
Gisela Böhm ◽  
Wouter Poortinga ◽  
Marc Poumadère ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Consensus ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
The Relationship

Scientists overwhelmingly agree that climate change exists and is caused by human activity. It has been argued that communicating the consensus can counter climate scepticism, given that perceived scientific consensus is a major factor predicting public belief that climate change is anthropogenic. However, individuals may hold different models of science, potentially affecting their interpretation of scientific consensus. Using representative surveys in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Norway, we assessed whether the relationship between perceived scientific consensus and belief in anthropogenic climate change is conditioned by a person’s viewing science as ‘the search for truth’ or as ‘debate’. Results show that perceived scientific consensus is higher among climate change believers and moreover, significantly predicts belief in anthropogenic climate change. This relationship is stronger among people holding a model of science as the ‘search for truth’. These results help to disentangle the effect of implicit epistemological assumptions underlying the public understanding of the climate change debate.

‘Positive direct rule’: economic policy

No Solution ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.C. Aveyard
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Labour Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Positive Direct

This chapter looks at economic policy in Northern Ireland in the context of severe economic difficulties experienced by the UK as a whole. It shows how the Labour government sought to shield Northern Ireland from economic realities because of the conflict, increasing public expenditure and desperately seeking industrial investment. The level of desperation in this endeavour is illustrated through examples such as Harland & Wolff’s shipyards and the DeLorean Motor Company. The experience of the 1970s, and particularly under the Labour government, set the pattern for the following decades with a steadily increasing subvention from the rest of the United Kingdom and a growing dependence on the public sector, all at a time when the opposite trend took place in Great Britain.

scholarly journals Legitimating change in the public sector: the introduction of (rational?) accounting practices in the United Kingdom, Italy and Austria

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 1374-1399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Hyndman ◽  
Mariannunziata Liguori ◽  
Renate E. Meyer ◽  
Tobias Polzer ◽  
Silvia Rota ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom

scholarly journals Public-Private Partnership in New Zealand and Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nordyanawati binti Rusmani
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Project Finance ◽  
Vision 2020 ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quality Infrastructure

<p>The importance of high quality infrastructure and its maintenance lies in its ability to stimulate economic growth as it fuels business activities, creates job opportunities, markets product, and generates earnings (Yakcop, 2006a). In consideration of this importance, the public sector encourages private sector participation in the delivery of public services and infrastructure in terms of funding and expertise. A successful Public Private Partnership (PPP) is one vehicle used internationally. Both New Zealand and Malaysia acknowledge the potential of PPPs in delivering high quality infrastructure and services to the general public. Consequently, both countries made a move towards PPPs by creating PPP-specialized units and producing PPP guidelines. However, thus far, Malaysia has been more active in pursuing PPPs when compared to New Zealand‘s cautious approach to PPPs. Hence, the purpose of this thesis is to find out the reasoning behind this trend. Issues relevant to reasons for implementing PPPs, features of PPPs, allocation of risks, performance indicators and accounting for PPPs are analysed to justify this trend. This thesis finds that the Malaysian "Vision 2020" has signalled a government preference for PPPs, including its ability to encourage bumiputera participation. Further, the government has developed a system involving Special Purpose Vehicles and utilizing government-held superannuation funds for project finance aid. Consequently, the system reduces the transfer of risk from the public sector to the private sector partners. This has transcended the major issue in New Zealand where the lack of a competitive market has restricted the development of PPPs. A lack of public support has also contributed to New Zealand‘s PPP under-development.</p>

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