An exploratory and quantitative assessment of the sustainable competitiveness of supply chain: Evidence from Indian sugar industry
- Authors: Sheetal, , Singh, Randeep , Kumar, Rajiv
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of public affairs Vol. 22, no. 3 (2022), p. n/a
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- Description: The main aim of this paper is to examine the effect of prominent forces on the sustainable competitiveness of the Indian sugar supply chain with the role of government as a moderator. A survey involving managers working in Indian sugar companies was conducted and partial least square (PLS) method was used to test the proposed research model. The findings supported the positive relationshipbetween suppliers' power and competitiveness suppliers and industry rivalry buyers' power and industry rivalry and government dynamics and competitiveness in the discussed industry. Furthermore, entry barriers exerted a hypothesized negative relationship with competitiveness. The government is working as a moderator between the suppliers' (sugarcane growers') power and the competitiveness of the discussed industry as hypothesized. This study discerns the foundational literature from extant research work lays down basic underpinnings for contextual discussion on competitive forces in the discussed industry and adds empirical facet by surveying the industry professionals. These findings may draw the attention of incumbents, industry practitioners, academicians, and policy‐makers to the impact that selected environmental forces have on competitive landscape of the sugar industry.
Learned helplessness and external locus of control in the public sector
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma , Jones, Robert
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Manageable cooperation? 16th European Academy of Managment Conference (EURAM 2016); Paris, France; 1st-4th June 2016
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- Description: Governments worldwide have pursued privatisation and corporatisation agendas as a way to divest themselves of the financial responsibilities and administrative burdens that managing public sector organisations entail. Due to these organisations’ perceptions of the requirement to maintain their traditional risk averse behaviours in the management of the public funds involved, many government organisations require their employees to observe the traditional bureaucratic methodologies with which their administrations have always been run. The intent is to maintain legislative accountability and public transparency. As a result many organisations maintain their tall and rigid hierarchical structures. In the face of this many public sector workers at this level adopt the risk averse culture they perceive their employing organisations possess, leading them to virtually abdicate their responsibilities for ownership of their job outcomes through the perception that the responsibility that comes with greater authority higher in the organisation will cover them. This breeds a culture of learned helplessness.
Do as we say, not as we do : Promoting mission statements and values in the light of public sector reform
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Managing ethics on the edge, 3rd Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network Conference (ABEN 2013); Hobart, Australia; 2nd-3rd December 2013
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New public management and organisational commitment in the public sector: testing a mediation model
- Authors: Williams, Helen , Rayner, Julie , Allinson, Christopher
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Human Resource Management Vol. 23, no. 13 (2012), p. 2615-2629
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- Description: This paper focuses on the attitudes of learning professionals towards New Public Management (NPM). In a survey of the UK further education sector (n = 433), NPM beliefs were found to be positively associated with both affective and normative organisational commitment. However, as expected, NPM beliefs were not found to be related to continuance organisational commitment. The results also show that although perceived organisational support mediates the relationship between NPM beliefs and affective organisational comment, it is only a partial mediator of the relationship between NPM beliefs and normative organisational commitment. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings, and potential directions for future research, are discussed.
Whistleblowing : Impediments to effective implementation within the South African public sector
- Authors: Dorasamy, Nirmala , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Corporate Ownership and Control Vol. 8, no. 3 B (2011), p. 196-208
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- Description: This purpose of this article is to explore impediments to effective whistleblowing as a strategy for promoting anti-corruption practices within the South African public sector. Corruption, which violates the public service code of conduct; deters foreign investment, increases the cost of public service delivery, undermines the fight against poverty and unnecessarily burdens the criminal justice system. The article addresses the question on whether legislation on whistleblowing is adequate to encourage whistleblowing in the public sector.A review of literature determines that the effective implementation of whistleblowing legislation is largely dependent on addressing the challenges identified in the article. The quantitaive research method was employed in the study to ascertain the views of employees in the public sector on whistleblowing. Empirical findings confirm the hypothesis that the protection of whistleblowers through legislation is inadequate to encourage whistleblowing. The article provides a conceptual framework for the effective achievement of the intended outcomes of whistleblowing in the public sector.
Key public sector individuals as ICT change agents : An analysis of Australian and German experience
- Authors: Jagodick, Jana , Courvisanos, Jerry , Yearwood, John , Braun, Patrice
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration Vol. 31, no. 2 (2009), p. 197-212
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- Description: The increasing demand for technology-enabled public sector services drives state agencies to launch information and communication technology (ICT) projects. The Australian and German state agencies are taking a proactive role towards technological change by employing so-called ICT change agents. These ICT change agents introduce, diffuse, manage and implement ICT within projects. Despite the mobilisation of change agents, there is scant research on the formal and informal roles of these key individuals within public sector projects. This article bridges that gap by providing valuable insights into the activities of public sector ICT change agents. It is based on empirical research from six case studies in Australian and German state agencies. Findings from these studies indicate that public sector ICT change agents position organisations to take advantage of cutting edge technologies by performing a great variety of formal and informal roles. Formal roles are performed in order to accomplish set formal project tasks, while informal roles help to speed up rapid ICT adoption and innovation through the change agents’ informal networks. The findings are delineated in a framework for future research which shows that formal and informal roles impact on the outcomes of public sector ICT projects.
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