The CBS Public-Private Platform and KORA starts strategic collaboration
The CBS Public-Private Platform and KORA starts strategic collaboration
Doing the last period of time, common points of interest has been identified by KORA – the Danish Institute of Local Governmental Research and the PP Platform. Motivated by the complementarities of knowledge resources shared by the institutions, the two now join each other in a formal strategic collaboration.
The collaboration is set to take form through dimensions as research, teaching and outreach.
Professor and Academic Director at the CBS Public-Private Platform Carsten Greve elaborates:
”The public sector has to prioritize its resources sharply during the coming years, and KORA has the analytical capacity to understand and research the conditions and opportunities that public sector organizations face, especially in local government and regions. The public sector also cooperates with private companies and non-government organizations on solutions to mutual challenges. The strategic partnership between KORA and CBS Public-Private Platform can strengthen society’s knowledge and analysis on resource utilization, innovation, public service motivation and public-private partnerships amongst other pressing issues.”
As part of the collaboration KORA and the CBS Public-Private Platform will bring to life common research projects engaging joint researchers, joint proposals and joint partners. They will focus on joint development at academic initiatives and teach at the partners institution. Further they will facilitate joint events.
The strategic collaboration is clearly strategic in the ambition, as Lene Holm Pedersen, Professor MSO and Director of Research at KORA explains:
“We need to focus on public management which to a higher degree supports innovative solutions and fosters employees with high motivation and professionalism. The entire organisation should want and have the ability to prioritize interdisciplinarity. The strategic collaboration between KORA and the CBS Public-Private Platform provides an institutional frame for research and research dissemination supporting this matter.”
The official partnership began in July 2013, and is signed for a three years period adjustable and expandable.
Upcoming conference on motivation, governance and the delivery of public welfare with Margrethe Vestager
As the first formal event, KORA and the PP Platform invite for a mini-conference about steering, motivation og performance in the public sector. Though many arguments has been put forward about the perception that 'trust is good - control is better', research argues that this isn’t always the case. Even though high motivation toward providing good service exist among employees, rules and economic incentives can ruin this motivation if the dimensions do not support each other. On the other hand, blind trust isn’t the way forward either. Finding this balance and strengthening the use of governance and rules has by research shown to be a question directed much more to the creation of effective public goods than to the conception of the employees. Practitioners and researchers will among other things discuss this at the conference. Key- note at the conference is Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior Margrethe Vestager. Read more about the conference here.
Activities taking form in relation to the partnership between KORA and the PP Platform will be presented continuously here at our website.
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