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Righting Past Wrongs Through Restorative Justice: Managerial Motivations for Collaboration

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonprofits are crucial to state collaborations as their embedded nature in communities allows them to gain the trust necessary to facilitate change and enhance strengths. As nonprofits collaborate with the public sector to tackle systemic challenges, understanding managerial motivations for collaboration and implications for social change is ...
Kara L. Lawrence   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market: A Steady-State Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
We analyze a model that focuses on the export/outsource decision. Outsourcing has the advantage of providing better information about local preferences.
Ping Wang, Raymond Riezman
core  

Different from the start: key dimensions of seedling traits of central European temperate grassland species

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
Plant traits and their tradeoffs are major determinants of plant functions. Although trait‐based frameworks should apply to plant functioning at any life stage, they have been primarily established for adult plants. Therefore, we lack comprehensive trait‐based studies of seedlings across multiple species to prove which key dimensions of trait variation
Sarah Martin, Christiane Roscher
wiley   +1 more source

What Do We Know about Contracting Out in the United States? Evidence from Household and Establishment Surveys [PDF]

open access: yes
A variety of evidence points to significant growth in domestic contracting out over the last two decades, yet the phenomenon is not well documented. In this paper, we pull together data from various sources to shed light on the extent of and trends in ...
Anne Polivka   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Public Administration Education on Individual Policy Capacity of Federal Civil Servants in Ethiopia

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, policy capacity has garnered increasing attention from scholars in the Global North. However, there has been limited focus on policy capacity in developing countries, particularly in Africa. While various factors, such as experience, the nature of policy tasks, and educational background, can influence the policy capacity of
Kiflie Worku Angaw   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Capacity for Novel Technology Adoption: Developmental Insights From Singapore's AI Adoption in Long‐Term Care

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Worldwide, artificial intelligence‐driven technologies, including robotics and autonomous systems (RAS), are adopted to address manpower shortages in long‐term care. However, their effective use requires a reasonable degree of policy capacity across individual‐, organisational‐ and system‐levels.
Si Ying Tan, Lili Li, Araz Taeihagh
wiley   +1 more source

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