Project, Program and Portfolio Management
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Project, Program and Portfolio Management
2024-03-18
Algorithmic Accountability: What Does it Mean for AI Developers and How Does it Affect AI Development Projects
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dar:wpaper:142984&r=ppm
Bartsch, Sebastian Clemens
Milani, Verena
Adam, Martin
Benlian, Alexander
2024
Are Mini-Grid Projects in Tanzania Financially Sustainable?
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04439989&r=ppm
While it is commonly acknowledged that mini-grids are the new pathway to bridging the high electricity access deficit in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), comparably few studies have assessed how existing regulations and tariff policies in SSA affect their potentials to attract the number of private investments required to scale-up deployments. Private investors' participation is particularly crucial to meet the annual electrification investment needs of $120 billons in SSA. We study the regulatory framework, the tariff structure, and the subsidy schemes for mini-grids in Tanzania. Additionally, using an optimization technique, we assess the profitability of a mini-grid electrification project in Tanzania from a private investment perspective. We find that the approved standardized small power producers' tariffs and subsidy scheme in Tanzania still do not allow mini-grid for rural electrification projects to be profitable. A further study is required to identify successful business models and strategies to improve mini-grids profitability.
E. Zigah
M. Barry
Anna Creti
Electricity access, Mini-grids, Africa, Clean energy policy, Energy regulation, Pricing
2023
The Productivity Effect of Public-Private Partnership
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tur:wpapnw:088&r=ppm
Public authorities have increasingly resorted to public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements for the delivery of public services. A PPP bundles the construction, management, and maintenance of a facility in a unique contract. Using data from the Italian district heating industry, I find that PPP internalizes the technological externality between construction and operation tasks of a project by inducing a higher level of capital quality. A unit increase in the capital quality raises the output of PPP firms by 17%.
Mollisi Vincenzo
Populism, Industry Productivity, Public-private Partnerships, Public-service Provision
2024-02
Back to the Futur(oscope): a territorial development "bricolaged" by a political entrepreneur?
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04452686&r=ppm
For many years, public policies for territorial economic development have been inspired by symbols such as Silicon Valley, fueling the dreams of local elected officials. While evaluation processes allow us to assess the efficiency and ex-post performance of the territorial development paths taken, they do not provide a complete understanding of the mechanisms at work in their manufacture. This qualitative research focuses inductively on the genesis and evolution of Futuroscope, an emblematic and atypical figure in the development of a rural area, through a long-term case study. We therefore propose a secondary analysis in the form of a supra-analysis to clarify the mechanisms at work and to shed light on the case with the help of a specific theoretical approach. We show that territorial development does not necessarily produce a territorial ecosystem, or more precisely, that the implementation of a project can generate activity on a territory without sustainably creating productive interactions between stakeholders - interactions that are essential for the qualification of the ecosystem. While territorial development theory neglects the dimension of "public action" and the role of elected representatives as political entrepreneurs, we contribute to this literature by proposing the concept of "territorial bricolage" as a mechanism for producing a territorial development path. The identification of this mechanism of territorial innovation should be a source of inspiration for territorial managers in the implementation of public policies. In particular, in crisis situations, this innovation modality could produce a capacity for territorial resilience, in a combination of bricolage, effectuation and causation.
Olivier Coussi
Bastien Bernela
Bricolage, Développement territorial, Écosystème, Entrepreneur politique, Futuroscope
2024-02-01
Public Policies versus Public Entrepreneurship
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:smo:raiswp:0303&r=ppm
The paper enhances the current understanding of public administration's support for entrepreneurship, providing knowledge that could generate interest in this topic. It analyzes the collaboration among public policies, the public sector, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations, and the following dependent variables: innovation, e-government and digitization, entrepreneurship support ecosystems, and risks in this approach. The academic significance of this research lies in its provision of evidence for the moderating role of NGOs in expanding PPPs to support entrepreneurs. The paper reviews European and national specialized literature in the field of social entrepreneurship. This review focuses on the role of public administrations in supporting social projects and proposes a conceptual model that outlines its empirical boundaries. Additionally, the paper outlines the statistical methods used for this part of the analysis. The findings then lead to suggestions for future research on the role of public administration as a facilitator of social entrepreneurship.
Doina Muresan
public entrepreneurship, public policies, public private partnership, social entrepreneurship
2023-08
When pro-poor microcredit institutions favour richer borrowers: A moral hazard story
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04442586&r=ppm
We suggest an explanation for the existence of "mission drift, " the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to lend money to wealthier borrowers rather than to the very poor. We focus on the relationship between MFIs and external funding institutions. We assume that both the MFIs and the funding institutions are pro-poor. However, asymmetric information on the effort chosen by the MFI to identify higher-quality projects may increase the share of loans attributed to wealthier borrowers. This occurs because funding institutions have to build incentives for MFIs, creating a trade-off between the quality of the funded projects and the attribution of loans to poorer borrowers.
Sara Biancini
David Ettinger
Baptiste Venet
loans, Microcredit, Institutions
2023
Steering Labor Mobility through Innovation
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecl:ohidic:2023-29&r=ppm
This paper argues that firms proactively use innovation decisions to influence the mobility and human capital accumulation of their workers. We develop a dynamic model in which workers conduct R&D projects, accumulating both general and firm-specific human capital. Firms choose the scope of innovation, influencing the type of human capital workers accumulate during the process. Pursuing more general innovation leads to increased knowledge redeployability for the firm at the cost of more difficult employee retention. We estimate the model using granular innovation production and mobility data of three million inventors. Our model closely matches the observed mobility and innovation specificity over inventors' life cycles. Empirical estimates of the model parameters imply that 24% of observed innovation specificity among U.S. firms is driven by their labor market considerations, which enhances the firm value but lowers the inventors' surplus.
Ma, Song
Wang, Wenyu
Wu, Yufeng
2023-12