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    Management as a system: creating value

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    Boston University School of Management publication from the 1990s about the MBA programs at BU, aimed at prospective MBA students

    Adaptation of domestic state governance to international governance models

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    The purpose of the article is to provide the evolving international trends of modern management models and authorial vision of model of state governance system in Ukraine, its subsystems, in particular, the system of provision of administrative services that is appropriate for the contemporary times. Methodology. On the basis of scientific and theoretical approaches to the definitions of terms “state governance” and “public governance”, there was an explanation of considerable difference between them and, taking into consideration, the mentality of Ukrainian society and peculiar weak side in self-organization, the authors offered to form authorial model of governance on the basis of historically traditional for Ukraine model of state governance and to add some elements of management concepts that proved their significance, efficiency and priority in practice. Results. The authors emphasized the following two prevailing modern management models in the international practice: “new state management” and “good governance”. The first concept offered for consideration served as a basis for the semantic content of state activity that reflects more the state of administrative reformation. Practical meaning. A practical introduction of management to the domestic model of governance creates the range of contradictions that do not allow implementing herein concept. Pursuant to authors, the second one allows in considerable measure to reform state governance, considering historically developed peculiarities of this model. Moreover, the involvement of concept herein into introduction of informational and communicational technologies in the process of governance eliminates the necessity of power decentralization, it allows to form real net structure and, at the same, to keep vertical power structure, to involve citizens for formation and taking of management decisions, to form electronic communicational channel of feedback, to provide citizens with electronic administrative services. All indicated advantages of the concept certify about the necessity to reform state governance exactly in this field. Meaning/ Distinction. This article raises a question about the significance of formation and sequence of state policy in Ukraine aimed at creating an information-oriented society, space, as well as informational and technological infrastructure

    Net structure of subject-to-subject relations in the management of the system of administrative services provision

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    The purpose of the work is to form the net structure of management of the system of administrative services provision on the basis of implementation of subject-to-subject interactions between state sector and civil society. Methodology. The methodology basis for the investigation is the abstract-logical analysis of theoretical and methodological backgrounds for management of relations and interactions. For the theoretical generalization and formation of net structure, there are used scientific recommendations of Ukrainian scientists regarding the necessity to implement subject-to-subject relations in the system of administrative services provision. Results. The investigations allowed confirming that the hierarchical structure of the state governance system does not give an opportunity to implement equal interaction between a subject of provision and a subject of an appeal as these relations have one – way communication and the feedback channel has a formal character. Moreover, the civil society is not considered by state sector to be a source of methods and ways to develop the system of state governance, in particular, the management system of administrative services provision. Practical meaning. The net structure of management will allow implementing the subject-subject relations in the system, under which the actions of the subject of provision – that means state sector – will be directed to the realization of rights and interests of the subjects of appeal. In their turn, apart from the performance of all legislative responsibilities that they should perform, they can carry out activities directed to the development of management activity in the system of administrative services provision and the whole system of state governance as an integral system of management. Meaning/Distinction. The provided model of the net structure will allow involving citizens in the processes of state governance and increasing the impact of the civil sector during the making of state and management decisions and, as a result, to confirm subject-to-subject positions in the relations

    Going Comprehensive: Anatomy of an Initiative That Worked -- CCRP in the South Bronx

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    Traces the story of the Comprehensive Community Revitalization Program (CCRP), a model approach to neighborhood redevelopment in the South Bronx that operated in concert with local nonprofit community development corporations

    Sociology Between the Gaps Volume 2 (2015 - 2016)

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    Analysis of the Podcast Industry and Business Growth of Upside.fm

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    This paper explores the podcast industry with a focus on business related podcasts about entrepreneurship and startup businesses. The paper works to analyze the podcast industry and midwestern startup cities in order to assist podcast company, Upside.fm, in expanding their business model. The two main ideas researched throughout the paper are consumer behaviors in the podcast industry and the entrepreneurial ecosystems of multiple midwestern cities in the U.S including, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kansas City, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Indianapolis, Indiana. For the consumer behavior aspect of the research, a survey was conducted and analyzed to discover what podcast listeners enjoy and why non-listeners do not listen. The city analysis involved a quantitative analysis of numerical data and a qualitative analysis gathered from interviews with entrepreneurial leaders from the midwestern cities that were researched. The findings are condensed as recommendations for Upside.fm regarding how they could use the research to expand their business into new cities while also suggesting what further research can be done in the future

    How students are taught entrepreneurship in universities

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    Rapid changes in an increasingly complex world require future graduates to acquire more than academic attainment in order to transform such challenges into opportunities for change, and make a difference in their communities. There is a valid political imperative in the UK for the development of a strong enterprise culture as a response to the challenges and opportunities presented by continuing globalisation. Universities, through graduate enterprise and entrepreneurship education, play a vital role in preparing and equipping students with the entrepreneurial mindsets, knowledge and capabilities needed to bring about transformation in the organisations that they will lead and manage in future. This paper presents a conceptual review of the different types of pedagogical approaches which are used for the promotion of entrepreneurial learning in higher education. It begins with a review of the political pressure on universities to respond to the concept of the enterprise culture in the UK and Europe. This starting point addresses the question as to ‘why’ entrepreneurship education is seen to be of growing importance. This paper then proceeds to examine the different types of pedagogical approaches which have been used in teaching and learning entrepreneurship. Whilst the use of business plans remain a popular approach, there is a growing recognition of its limitations and a noticeable shift towards experiential approaches. There is an emerging consensus in the literature to suggest that the development of entrepreneurial graduates requires a more experiential approach to learning, which is preferably action-based and student-centred, focusing on the development of entrepreneurial skills and competencies associated with entrepreneurship. It is argued that learning for entrepreneurship cannot be abstracted from the situation in which is it acquired and used. Within an entrepreneurial curriculum, students learn from and through experience within learning environments that simulate ‘real-world’ situations
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