Public Sector Transformation via Democratic Governmental Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship

Human capital utilization fails under the integration of the knowledge management and leadership disciplines. Public sector organizations traditionally lack effective human capital utilization due to bureaucratic operations and structures that restrict knowledge sharing incentives and initiatives. This, however, can be achieved with knowledge democratization methods that should be related to the obligation public servants have to share knowledge and experiences for the effectiveness and sustainability of their organization. The co-evolutionary organizational culture of the Company Democracy Model can be used to implement such an approach. This paper evolves the Company Democracy Model (CDM) into the Democratic Governmental Intrapreneurship Model (DeGIM) and extends it to the Democratic Governmental Entrepreneurship Model (DeGEM). Furthermore, it proposes an organizational structure through which DeGIM and DeGEM can be applied at the local or national level through a centralized authority that can empower the contribution of the public sector to the national economy

Democratic Governmental Corporate Entrepreneurship for the Transformation of the Public Sector in the Balkan Region

Democratization can be defined as the autonomy of decision-making and unbiased contribution, and access to data and information. Therefore, public sector democratization can give more liberty to the public sector employees to trigger original viewpoints that can initiate a more innovative and ambitious-driven work environment. Such democratization can create governmental, corporate entrepreneurship where public servants can explore entrepreneurial opportunities. The process is similar to knowledge-based business transformation, where organizational culture needs to change to achieve better use of knowledge and human resources management. In this paper, such a modification will be adopted by implementing a Holistic Model for governmental entrepreneurship, by integrating the Kotter’s Model for change management, the Self-determination Theory for employee motivation, and Democratic Governmental Intrapreneurship Model (DeGIM) for knowledge management. The paper is based on data and information from the Balkan’s region public sector and sets the base for future adaptation elsewhere

The intrapreneurial state: Singapore's emergence in the smart and sustainable urban solutions field

The East Asian developmental state model and the Anglo-American entrepreneurial state model profile varied ways in which the state continues to intervene in economic development. These models are developed by different disciplines and against diverse contexts to capture extrasocietal state responses to neoliberalism and globalization but leave the intrasocietal preconditions for state evolution little explored. We elaborate the concept of state intrapreneurialism as one way of understanding the interrelationship between economic and state transformation – one ingredient of the intrasocietal preconditions underpinning the responses to extrasocietal changes emphasized in the post-developmental state literature. Drawing on the case of Singapore's emergence in the field of smart/sustainable urban solutions, the subsidiary contributions of this paper are to suggest intrapreneurship as a specific and enduring advantage within the developmental state model, especially when set against its limitations signalled in the post-developmental state literature

Democratizing Innovation. A Geo-Entrepreneurial Analysis and Approach Through the Company Democracy Model

Even that thinking, and innovative thinking, in particular, is supposed to be borderless and unbiased, it seems that most of the innovations globally derive from regions that have built a brand name on it. This limits the opportunities to bright ideas form bright people outside the innovation hubs, resulting in a general loss of intellectual capital for the global economy. This paper aims to democratize innovation by redefining geo-entrepreneurship through a reverse innovation framework that exposes the hidden intellectual capital around the world, evaluates innovation drives and opportunities and empowers the development, commercialization and utilization of innovation. Based on the Company Democracy Model the proposed framework impacts reversely national brain-drain contributes to innovation scouting, strategic partnerships, and redistributes success opportunities. This geo-entrepreneurial approach identifies innovation potential globally, reduces inequalities among all those who can and want to create opportunities regardless of where innovation takes place and by whom

Institutional conditions and social innovations in emerging economies: insights from Mexican enterprises’ initiatives for protecting/preventing the effect of violent events

Latin-American countries are characterised by societal problems like violence, crime, corruption, the informality that influence any entrepreneurial activity developed by individuals/organisations. Social innovations literature confront “wicked problems” with strong interdependencies among different systems/actors. Yet, little is known about how firms use innovation to hedge against economic, political or societal uncertainties (i.e., violence, social movements, democratisation, pandemic). By translating social innovation and institutional theory approaches, this study analyses the influence of formal institutions (government programs and actions) and informal institutions (corruption, extortion and informal trade) on the development/implementation of enterprises’ technological initiatives for protecting/preventing of victimisation. By using data from 5525 establishments interviewed in the 2012/2014 National Victimisation Survey of the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), our findings shows that formal conditions (government programs) and informal conditions (corruption, extortion and informal trade) are associated with an increment in the number of enterprises’ social innovations. Our findings also contribute to the debate about institutional conditions, social innovations, and the role of ecosystems’ actors in developing economies. A provoking discussion and implications for researchers, managers and policymakers emerge from this study

Collected Papers: Entrepreneurship

These collected papers serve as a student exercise in critical thinking. The aim is to explore and discover knowledge relating to differing aspects of entrepreneurship. Critical thinking skills, academic writing and the ability to build arguments are all skills we consider an essential part of our student progression. Our students understand critical thinking as an intellectually disciplined, cognitive process which involves the reflective, active analysis and evaluation of knowledge and arguments in order to develop their own defensible knowledge and arguments. Reading and writing are enquiries that require an action rather than just repeating what has been previously stated or done, it is an act of discovery. It is for this reason we are not offering definitions of entrepreneurship or explanations of any aspects of the challenges in entrepreneurship education and practice, we will leave this to our students. Whether our approach to entrepreneurship education on this particular module serves to empower and emancipate or to just challenge and explore, might be open for debate. It can be argued that entrepreneurship education should be a way of action rather than a specific subject area . We don’t disagree, but in this instance embrace the subject area as a means to building knowledge, skills and exploring the subject area with our students

Interplays of economic and knowledge power. Neoliberal think tank networks and the return and universalization of entrepreneurship

This chapter examines the interplays of economic and epistemic power through a historical reconstruction of entrepreneurship ideas in management and economics and a historical social network analysis linking intellectuals and think tanks to foundations and corporations. With a focus on ideas, concepts and storylines, this study helps shed light on the intellectual and ideological origins of modes of thinking - and the ways of life based on them - that have become invisible or taken for granted. Although the continuing relevance and even the existence of neoliberalism are doubted by many, entrepreneurship discourses have become increasingly influential in contemporary society. This chapter illustrates how the original conception, or rather revision, of entrepreneurship ideas and their promotion by neoliberal intellectuals and think tanks preceded the diffusion of entrepreneurship ideas via business schools and consulting companies. This was followed by the subsequent universalization of entrepreneurship discourses and related arrangements in media and society, respectively: from social security regimes (activation, self-responsibility, and so on) to entrepreneurial universities on to charity and philanthropy (social entrepreneurship, eco-entrepreneurship)

Political Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change: an Evolutionary Approach

The paper is a contribution to the theory of institutional change. Using a process-based, evolutionary framework, a comparative analysis of economic and political entrepreneurship is provided and implications are derived for the role of political entrepreneurship, and the element of agency in general, for the evolution of formal institutions and institutional innovation.Institutional change; entrepreneurship; market process theory; evolutionary approach