Tamyko Ysa visiting scholar at the PP Platform
Tamyko Ysa visiting scholar at the PP Platform
Associate professor Tamyko Ysa from Esade Business School has been visiting the platform this fall. Tamyko’s areas of interest are the management of partnerships and their impact on the creation of public value; the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies, and the relations between companies and governments. On these subjects she has published various books and articles in specialized journals, presented papers at national and international congresses and given courses, seminars and lectures.
Interview with Tamyko Ysa
The CBS Public-Private Platform interviewed Tamyko on her work and interest in the PP Platform and PPPs. Tamyko stayed at the Department of Business and Politics whilst visiting CBS.
Which potentials do you find in PPP, and what is your interest?
”Partnerships have mainly two potentials in my opinion. Firstly, they allow to develop projects that otherwise would be impossible to be implemented or it would take many more years, due to the combined capacities from the public and the private (for profit and nonprofit) organizations to deal with risk.
Secondly, partnerships offer different approaches and solutions to wicked societal issues, than other conventional and traditional ones. Room is created for innovation, which is both profitable for companies and generates outcomes for society.”
Why have you chosen to visit and share knowledge with the CBS Public-Private Platform?
”I have chosen to visit the CBS Public-Private Platform because it is a very interesting cross-cutting strategy from CBS to get knowledge from different university departments, while being connected to the society through translational research. It bridges research and practice in a two way direction: by transferring new knowledge into practice, and most important by bringing interesting questions from society into research.
Having a platform that focus in this important topic of PPP is a great comparative advantage for the university. I am also a member of the Platform´s advisory board, and visiting here is an exceptional opportunity to see first-hand the very impressive outputs of the Platform in its first year of existence.”
What do you look into in your current research and in general? Will you focus on something in particular while you are in DK?
”I am analyzing the impact of management on performance in partnerships and networks - and especially modes of governance, boards and leadership. While at CBS with professor Carsten Greve, we will focus on public-private policy partnerships. In the aftermath of the financial crisis we do see the emergence of policy areas and issues dealt with through PPPs. More than 10 years ago, Rosenau (2000) referred to these types as public-private policy partnerships.”
”We seek to explore the renewed relevance of these hybrids for governments. In many policy areas (education, energy, cli-mate), governments are using a managed partnership approach to get new ideas into practice (innovation) and implemen-ting policies. The research’s results will build propositions regarding public-private policy partnerships, the main key partne-ring variables that foster the design, governance and management of those new types of PPP.”
How does you research, and PPP research in general, benefit cross-national knowledge and practice sharing?
”PPP and research in general learn from testing hypothesis and building new theories. Without access to cross-national samples it would be hard to test the robustness of theories to make PPP more responsive and efficient.”
“The accumulation of knowledge coming from business cases, interviews to policy makers and CEOs, and survey responses help scholars to generate this knowledge. This in-depth knowledge coming from practice makes it possible to focus both on processes and strategies.”
How will you characterize the future market for PPP? Are there specific obstacles or possibilities? Are they linked to a certain area?
“The future market for PPP will not be only focused on infrastructures and funding. There are enormous potentialities of going a) from projects to a national policy approach regarding PPPs; b) from infrastructure projects to also sustainable partnerships for systems of service provision and innovation.”
Presentation on Portfolio Network Governance
Tamyko has spent four months at CBS, Carsten Greve says:
"It has been truly inspiring to have Tamyko Ysa visiting CBS for four months. Tamyko is an expert on public-private partnering and innovation, and she is engaged in an extended network of scholars on PPP in Europe, Australia and the United States. We have started writing an article together on policy partnerships. Tamyko has been giving advice to PhD students at Department of Business and Politics. A foundation has been laid for more research collaboration in the future".
During her stay Tamyko gave a presentation on Portfolio Network Governance for the CBS Public-Private Platform Team: ppp_platform_cbs_2013_tamyko_ysa_2.pdf