Call for papers The 8th edition of the “Azienda Pubblica” Workshop will be held at the Ca’ Foscari University Venice. The workshop will begin on June 7th with the International Symposium on “Resilience, Sustainability, and Innovation in Public Services”.
(JUNE 7TH , 2018) Resilience, sustainability, and innovation are considered very attractive concepts in public sector literature, because they powerfully embody, nowadays, the dynamics of public sector governance and management. Furthermore, considerable attention is being paid to the topics in a joint combination, by considering the reciprocal influence. The increasing complexity of the socioeconomic environment due to the recent global financial crisis and a dynamic instability in the economic systems demand a higher level of intervention and adaptation within the public sector. Public sector organisations have to look for new conditions of sustainability in services provision and delivery coupled with managerial innovations. In this continuous changing situation, the concept of resilience may be currently considered an element for completing the multifaceted paradigm of sustainability, with its various meanings and perspectives as well economic, financial, social and environmental. The symposium aims to create an opportunity for confrontation, reflection and debate on how public administrations and organisations combine their proclivity to resilience with innovation processes and sustainability in public services delivery. A challenging perspective in studying this topic is related to co-production, collaboration, and partnerships, by taking into account their relationship with innovation processes. The number of papers accepted at the Symposium will not exceed 36. The rest of the papers submitted, if considered eligible by the unquestionable evaluation of the Scientific Committee, will be moved to specific sessions of the Workshop. The papers accepted for presentation in the Symposium sessions are eligible in a Volume in Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management and Non-profit Management Research Book Series and /or for publication in a special issue of Public money and management. Scientific Committee Coordinators: Stephen Osborne (University of Edinburgh); Salvatore Russo (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice) Carmine Bianchi (University of Palermo), Lars Fulsgang (Roskilde University), Kim Isett (Georgia Tech), Chiara Mio (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), Juraj Nemec (Masaryk University), Isabella Proeller (University of Potsdam), William Rivenbark (University of North-Carolina), Ileana Steccolini (Newcastle University, UK)
(JUNE 8TH-9TH, 2018)
The public sector is involved in a continuous process of reform lasting more than 20 years. To pursue their objectives, in terms of efficiency and effectiveness, public sector organisations have planned and implemented innovation in different areas of activity and at different organisational levels. Furthermore, at the macro level from the generation of ideas to their translation into actions, public administrations have an essential and irreplaceable role outstandingly in innovation processes, also compared to other subjects, primarily business, and non-profit organizations. Innovation is a complex object in which people and values are involved by promoting the enabling conditions and its underlying processes. Innovation can be studied from different perspectives, such as managerial, social, financial and technical. From an external point of view, public sector organisations, especially with respect to public services delivery, increasingly interact with private organisations, citizens and users by implementing forms of co-creation and co-production. From an internal point of view, innovation processes have been implemented in many areas such as strategic planning, accounting, human resources management, performance measurement and management, information and communication systems. In these different areas, various features of the ideas generation and implementation and people’s role are relevant. Politicians, administrators, public managers, citizens and private organisations are involved in innovation processes by carrying different approaches to innovation and, in turn, achieving different objectives and results. The 8TH Workshop of “Azienda Pubblica” will focus on both production and impact of innovation on public sector organisations. The main aim of the workshop is to discuss both theoretical models and empirical evidences in order to explain mechanisms, methods, processes, and effects in which innovation is pivotal. Theoretical and empirical, as well as qualitative and quantitative, contributions to this topic are welcome. The workshop will promote, among the others, papers dealing with the following specific areas: 1) Innovation in public sector organisations; 2) Obstacles and enablers of innovation processes in public sector organisations; 3) Measuring innovation in public sector organisations; 4) Ideas generation and implementation in public sector organizations; 5) Accounting innovations and decision-making processes in public sector organisations; 6) Impact evaluation of public service innovation; 7) Innovation in the relationships among public sector organizations, private organizations (non-profit and for profit) and citizens; 8) Co-production as innovation process in public sector organisations;
9) Public managers and professionals’ role in innovation processes.
The papers accepted for presentation in the Workshop sessions are eligible for a fast track publication process on “Azienda Pubblica”, according to the standard review process of the journal. The paper and the presentation can be both in Italian and English.
Scientific Committee Riccardo Mussari (Chief Editor, University of Siena), Luca Anselmi (University of Pisa), Paola Adinolfi (University of Salerno), Eugenio Anessi Pessina (Cattolica University, Milan), Carmine Bianchi (University of Palermo), Elio Borgonovi (Bocconi University, Milan), Eugenio Caperchione (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia), Denita Cepiku (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Giuseppe Marcon (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), Valentina Mele (Bocconi University, Milan), Marco Meneguzzo (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Chiara Mio (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), Aldo Pavan (University of Cagliari), Stefano Pozzoli, (University of Naples “Parthenope”), Luigi Puddu (University of Turin), Salvatore Russo (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), Ugo Sòstero (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), Antonello Zangrandi (University of Parma)
For the SYMPOSIUM
Manuscripts must be submitted to
[email protected] For the WORKSHOP
Manuscripts must be submitted to:
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In both cases, to facilitate the double-blind review process, abstracts must consist of two pages: in the first one, authors have to report their name, position, affiliation, email address and paper title; the second page has to report the paper title and the abstract.
Papers must have a structure aiming at highlighting the following aspects: ü Abstract. ü Research question(s) or purpose of inquiry. ü Literature Review. ü Methodology.
ü Results and findings. ü Critical discussion of findings. ü Analysis of possible research impacts in terms of theory development. ü Analysis of possible research impacts for public managers and policy-makers.
Each participant may submit only one manuscript, as author or co-author, to the symposium and/or to the workshop according to the following guidelines: ü Abstract: max 800 words, Times New Roman – 12 pt. ü Paper: Max 8.000 words (excluding abstract, tables, figures and references), Times New Roman – 12 pt. ü Double-space, with 1 inch margins
SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP ü Extended Abstract submission: February 05th, 2018 ü Notification to authors of abstract acceptance: March 05th, 2018 ü Deadline for full paper submission: May 07th, 2018.
SYMPOSIUM and WORKSHOP only for foreign participants: ü Early registration by April 18th, 2018: €150,00. ü Late registration after April 18th, 2018: € 200,00.
SYMPOSIUM and WORKSHOP ü Early registration by April 18th, 2018: €300,00. ü Late registration after April 18th, 2018: € 350,00. Ph.D. students: ü Early registration by April 18th, 2018: € 200,00. ü Late registration after April 18th, 2018: € 250,00.
Registration fee includes: participation to the conference with a paper, gala dinner (June 8th), coffee-breaks and a lunch breaks.
Spouse/guest registration fee: € 120,00. This fee permits an individual to accompany a regular conference registrant to the gala dinner, coffee breaks, and lunch breaks. Registration fees must be paid, starting from Feb. 1st 2018, through Credit Card at: http://www.unive.it/workshopaziendapubblica2018 http://www.unive.it/symposiumrsi2018 In addition to payment, on the same website you must register for the symposium and workshop
The Symposium will start on the 7th of June 2018, at 9.00 and will run on the 8th June with the Workshop, which ends on the 9th at 13:00. The program consists of plenary and parallel sessions in which selected papers will be presented and discussed, and a final round-table that will involve public management scholars and public sector professionals (managers and politicians). The main aim is to stimulate a debate on public administrations. The program schedule is forthcoming.
Salvatore Russo (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), Marisa Agostini (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), Enrico Bracci (University of Ferrara), Stefano Landi (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), Pasquale Ruggiero (University of Siena)
The Gala dinner is scheduled on June 8th 2018.
Department of Management - Ca’ Foscari University Venice e-mail:
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Azienda Pubblica editorial office, Ph. +39 02 58366113, Fax +39 02 58362508, e-mail:
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Founded on August 6, 1868 as the “Scuola Superiore di Commercio” (Advanced School for Commerce), Ca' Foscari was the first Italian institution to deal with advanced education in Business and Economics. The original main office is still found in the grand gothic palace “volta de canal” (on the bend of the Grand Canal), in the heart of Venice. Ca’ Foscari University is a magnet for successful academics from across Europe and beyond, and with a thriving community of internationally acclaimed scientists, high profile politicians and economists, visiting Nobel laureates, famous writers and influencers in all disciplines, it offers students a powerful inspiration to become game-changers in their own fields and to make a genuine difference in the world. SYMPOSIUM. The Symposium will take place at the Ca’ Foscari University’s Headquarter, address: Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venezia. (http://static.unive.it/mappe/sede/990000)
WORKSHOP. The Workshop will take place at the Department of Management, Campus Economico, Ca’ Foscari University, address: San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873, 30121 Venezia, http://www.unive.it/management
HOW TO REACH Venice from Marco Polo Airport The most convenient ways to get to is either by bus or by boat. By bus. In order to take a bus, you should use the exits on the airport ground floor; the bus will stop right in front of you. You can buy tickets from the ACTV stand for the bus number 5 in the ATVO stand or in the arrivals lounge from 8:00AM to 12:00PM. You can buy ATVO tickets also on board and from the ticket machines in the arrival lounge. Get off at Piazzale Roma, the city’s main bus station and the last stop. It takes about 30 minutes to get to Venice by bus. By boat If you prefer to reach Venice by boat, turn left as soon as you leave the airport. You can buy tickets for Alilaguna Service both on-line and in the arrival lounge and it takes about an hour to get to Venice. For more information, you can visit the following websites: http://www.veniceairport.it/en/transport/ https://www.alilaguna.it/en http://www.venicelink.com/en
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