The Public and Non-Profit Management SIG aims at providing an authoritative and internationally focused forum to discuss major developments in the area of governance and management of public interest. Such focus allows embracing all organisations that operate for the benefit of the community, be they public or private. Key issues include network management, performance management, organisation and HRM, social innovation, social responsibility, accounting and accountability, marketing and fundraising, leadership. We especially welcome topic proposals focusing on collaborative governance (networks and co- production), social innovation, management of hybrid organisations and the creation of public value at the intersection between public and private domains. We encourage envisioning topics and symposia proposals that could be managed in partnership with another SIG.
SIG OFFICERS (2022-2023):
Filippo Giordano (LUMSA University, IT) SIG Programme Chair, f.giordano@lumsa.it – SIG Chair
Lorenzo Costumato (University of Roma Tor Vergata, IT) lorenzo.costumato@uniroma2.it – SIG Programme Chair,
Stephen O’Connor (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) sjo@uab.edu – SIG Co-Chair for Healthcare Management
Reto Steiner (ZHAW School of Management and Law, CH) reto.steiner@ipm.swiss – SIG Co-Chair for the General Track
Riccardo Mussari (University of Siena, IT) riccardo.mussari@unisi.it – SIG Co-Chair for Scientific Quality
Luigina Paglieri (Roma Tor Vergata, IT), luigina.paglieri@uniroma2.it – SIG Communications Officer
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT & NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT SIG STANDING TRACKS
GT11_00 – Public and Non-Profit Management General Track
The track chairs welcome papers dealing with the multiplicity of governance arrangements promoting the public interest. These have endured a shift from the traditional Weberian public administration to forms emulating business models, to public governance hybrid solutions based on collaboration and co-production, also increasingly leveraging on digitalization. The public sector has become more fragmented and multifaceted, while the shift in expectations by citizens make them now keener to engage in policy-making and service delivery. The PNPM general track aims at gathering and promoting confrontation between engaged scholars investigating the role of public and no-profit management for the pursuit of public
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Filippo Giordano, LUMSA – Free University – f.giordano@lumsa.it
ST11_01 – Accounting, Auditing and Sustainability in Public and Hybrid Organizations
This track aims to bring together researchers from the areas of accounting, accountability, CSR and sustainable management with those focusing on public sector and hybrid organizations. In particular, we would like to attract theoretical and empirical papers addressing the following issues: Accounting, Accountability, Auditing, Sustainability and social responsibility, Social reporting, Social auditing, Public Value, Public governance, Hybrid organizations, Ethics, Corruption, Social partnerships, Stakeholders engagement, Performance Management, Corporate social disclosure, Digitalization, and Smart Initiatives; Measuring social impact, Emergency Governance.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Primary Contact:
Giuseppe Grossi, Kristianstad University – giuseppe.grossi@hkr.se
ST11_02 – Healthcare Management Research
This standing track seeks to facilitate sharing of research concerning the health of the population and of the ways to organize healthcare services more effectively and efficiently. Studies of cooperative strategies of hospital networks, physician referral practices, public and private partnerships, and other efforts that improve outcomes are encouraged. Papers on patient safety and satisfaction, workforce issues including quality of work life and employee satisfaction, evidence-based management decision making, innovative practices, and efficient reallocation of health services are welcome. Submissions may include conceptual papers as well as qualitative and empirical studies.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Stephen O’Connor, University of Alabama at Birmingham – sjo@uab.edu
ST11_03 – Management and governance of culture, heritage and tourism
Managing culture, heritage, and tourism is a particularly complex task, cutting across institutional levels, management styles, and organizational cultures, especially with the recent technological and overall societal transformations. Adding further to this complexity, post pandemic times, as well as grand challenges such as the climate crisis, social and political inequality polarization s impacted the tourism as well as the artistic and cultural fields. This Standing Track aims to provide exchange research insights and practices among scholars in the field of management of cultural industries, heritage and tourism, where they can share and learn about the latest developments in the field
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Lorenzo Mizzau, University of Genoa – lorenzo.mizzau@unige.it
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT & NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT SIG TRACKS
T11_04 – Public Value Co-creation and Innovation: the interplay among subjects, objectives and processes
This track seeks to provide a rigorous, open and inclusive forum for the advancement of knowledge on the theme of public value co-creation and innovation for a sustainable ecosystem, in which various categories of stakeholders (public administrations, businesses, non-profit organisations, and citizens) are actively involved in the programming of public policies, the design and delivery of public services, as well as in the processes of resource allocation, reporting, and evaluation of the use of public resources, and to foster networking among management scholars by facilitating the sharing of research. Submissions may include theoretical papers as well as empirical studies.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,Goal 4: Quality education,Goal 5: Gender equality,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Silvia Testarmata, Lumsa University – s.testarmata@lumsa.it
T11_05 – Value Creation and Sustainable Solutions: Integrating Stakeholder Resources for Enduring Grand Challenges
This track aims to explore value creation and its role in generating sustainable solutions for enduring grand challenges. We welcome theoretical and empirical papers that explore resource integration among diverse actors from public, private, and non-profit sectors. Public Service Logic perspective has generated an extensive debate on public value co-creation where value is created at nexus of interactions among multiple stakeholders. However, dynamic interaction among stakeholders may also result in co-destruction of service value, which is less explored. We invite researchers to explore co-creation/co-destruction, resource integration, collaborative governance, and stakeholders’ involvement in various domains such as health, education, poverty, climate change,energy etc.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,Goal 4: Quality education,Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation,Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 13: Climate action
Primary Contact:
Shabana Naveed, University of Central Punjab – shabananaveed61@yahoo.com
T11_06 – Digital Transformation in the Public Sector
In recent years, the role of digital transformation in public sector, has caught strong attention by scholars in the public management field. Still, the managerial challenges faced to manage the complex dynamics that shape the entanglements between digital technologies and public services production and provision are yet to be fully explained. Literature is fragmented, and the theoretical grounds for the study of these dynamics are far from being commonly accepted and established. This track aims at providing an open, inclusive and rigorous forum to advance knowledge on the dynamics, drivers and barriers behind public digital transformation.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Reto Steiner, ZHAW School of Management and Law – reto.steiner@zhaw.ch
T11_07 – Public trust, participatory governance, and resilient democracy as a new open government agenda?
The relevance of open government needs to be revisited in the face of dangerous current trends in order to renovate trust between public institutions and the community.
The proposed topic investigates to what extent open government practices, combined with forms of collaborative governance, improve government performance and how this can be achieved.
In seeking to answer these fundamental questions, we will welcome papers which explore the theoretical and conceptual bases of open government, and we also encourage authors to undertake empirical investigations into the extent to which governments are actually delivering key elements of open government.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Lorenzo Costumato, University of Rome Tor Vergata – lorenzo.costumato@uniroma2.it