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Quarterly newsletter
ISSUE 7 Fall 2013
Welcome to the CBS Public-Private Platform!
In this quarterly newsletter we aim to keep you up to date with our
ongoing activities, and to encourage you to get involved in our work.
The fall is here and the Public-Private Platform is back from the summer
break with a packed schedule of activities, visits and public events. A new
partnership agreement has been signed between the platform and KORA
and on Friday October 4, this took its first move when 150 people gathered
for a conference on motivation, governance and the delivery of public
welfare. Earlier in September Canadian PPP expert Larry Blain visited for a
talk about PPP and the optimum size of government followed by a later
visit by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, one of the co-authors behind the book:
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think.
this issue
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: 2-3
Partnership with KORA: 4
Mini conference: 5-6
PPP report: 7
Equality Exchange report: 8
Larry Blain: 9
Internet Governance Forum: 10
Publications: 11-12
News: 13
OBHC: 14
New faces: 15-16
Platform clusters: 17
The platform team: 18
Upcoming events: 19
Upcoming guest lectures: 20
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Visit by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
‘Big data will help us understand the world better'
On September 18 the CBS Public-Private
Platform and the Big Data Forum proudly
presented a seminar with Viktor MayerSchönberger – one of the world’s leading
experts on big data and co-author of the New
York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book Big Data: A Revolution That Will
Transform How We Live, Work and Think (coauthored with Kenneth Cukier from The
Economist).
The seminar was completely booked, and we
were unfortunately not able to give everyone
a seat. An account of arguments put forward
by Viktor is summarized here for those
interested.
From Big Data to Small Data
At the seminar Viktor argued that by focusing on big data rather than small data we can provide an outline for more qualified
choices. Whereas with small data you focus on one thing and the rest is blurry, big data is the opposite, and if you can see it
all – then you can choose what you want to focus on. He compared it to a camera, saying:
‘wouldn’t it be great to have a photo camera where you don’t have to focus on one layer but where you capture every single
light and then later on you choose what you want to focus on? Similar with big data, you can choose what you want to focus
on after you have collected the data’.
According to Viktor the problem with small data is also, that you have to invest time and thoughts on what you want to
collect and you are limited to the notion of what is possible to collect. With fewer data points, you need to make them
accurate. However, he underlined that we should not give up on other data methods, like small data, just because of the
possibilities now existing within big data.
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Visit by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
The challenges
‘Big
data will help us understand the world better. It
will improve medicine, how we educate our children
and much more’ argued Viktor.
In regards to challenges Viktor argued that if big data is
going to be the most valuable thing to own, we might
see a challenge in the willingness to share it? Data is
now protected by copyright, but having data might
going to be the best recipe for success in the future!
Viktor underlined in this relation that it can become a
challenge to cope with this balance. And it is sad, as e.g. cloud capacity makes you easily access the data which can be of great
value for start-up businesses. Therefore releasing data sets by the government in order to stimulate start-up business and big
data innovation could be great in a future perspective.
Furthermore Viktor explained, that the ‘problem’ with big data is not that privacy is challenged – it is the mechanisms we use
to protect our privacy that is challenged, and that is the key problem and the key challenge when coping with big data in the
future. In extension it is not big data analysis that is challenging, it is how we use the analysis capable of being made. We have
seen the risk and still more challenges is ahead. Though we should be careful not to focus too much on the dictatorship of
data and hereby giving it more meaning and power than it actually deserves explained Viktor. We cannot and shall not forget
humility; we need to have a place for the human, for rationality and imagination. Also in relation to all the possibilities big
data reveals.
Read the extended article about the event here.
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Viktor
Mayer-Schönberger
is Professor of Internet
Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute of
Oxford University, and a faculty affiliate at Harvard University.
He has published nine books, including the very influential
book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
(2011), and over a hundred articles and book chapters on the
governance of information.
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Strategic partnership with KORA
The CBS Public-Private Platform and KORA starts strategic collaboration
The platform has developed a strategic partnership with
KORA – the Danish Institute of Local Governmental
Research. Given clear overlaps in their research and
outreach activities, the two bodies plan to engage in a
range of projects together to add value and critical mass
to their own individual efforts in these and related areas.
The collaboration is set to take form through the dimensions 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 nongovernment 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 engage in common research projects with
researchers from both institutions working together, as well as initiating joint proposals and establishing joint partnerships
with other bodies. They will also facilitate joint events.
The 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.
Learn more about KORA.
CBS Public-Private Platform partnerships…
Interested in collaborating with the platform? You can always contact us at publicprivateplatform@cbs.dk for a talk, or
visit our website.
The platform also engage in a strategic partnership with the cross-governmental unit MindLab, which commenced in No‐
vember 2012 and continually give rise to joint successes.
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First collaboration between KORA and the
platform
Mini conference on motivation, steering and deliverance of
public welfare
Friday September 4, CBS Public-Private Platform and KORA held a conference on
motivation, steering and deliverance of public welfare at CBS. 150 people from
organisations the country and from different sectors were gathered for the conference.
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.
Taking this point of departure the conference presented among others key-notes Ken Meier, Professor of political science at
Texas A&M University, and Marie Munk, Deputy permanent secretary at the Danish Ministry of Economic and Interior Affairs.
Marie Munk stepped in at the last moment due to a cancellation from the Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior,
Margrethe Vestager.
Doing the day, the participants rotated between the workshops: Leadership and motivation in high schools, Practical
implications of research on motivation and performance, Public service motivation as a hidden potential in the public sector,
Employee motivation, user capacity and models of public service provision and Public Values.
The workshop on Public Values were
held and presented by Professors
Torben Beck Jørgensen and Karsten
Vrangbæk.
They
afterwards
elaborated on the conference:
‘A number of interesting topics were
discussed at the workshop on public
values. It was debated whether it is
possible and needed to develop an
ethos for public servants and if, which
themes should then be included. Another central theme was whether we already now can get a glimpse of the contours of
such generally accepted values across administrative spheres and levels and maybe even across countries. A number of
methodological and interpretive related challenges linked to these investigations were outlined. However it was at the same
time stressed that there exists a need for more research based knowledge on how collective public values influences the
individual 'public service motivation' which were the theme of the remaining workshops of the day.’
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First collaboration between KORA and the
platform
In the afternoon Lise Nordvig Rasmussen, Manager at Rambøll Management and Simon Calmar Andersen, Associate
Professor at Aarhus University held a presentation on Performance Improvements: Research and Practice.
Focus was on the ways of using evidence based
knowledge in policy development. Through a description
of the development of methods within the sector of
education, they stressed how qualitative and minor
empirical studies have characterized the market. Not until
2004 an OECD report underlines unfulfilled potentials in
the Danish education system, as the resources allocated
to research in education does not correlate to actual
knowledge and evidence within the field. New R&D
guidelines integrated in the Ministry of Education result in
faster implementation of new research in practice and
more quantitative research is combined with the
qualitative approaches. Even though national test makes
it easier to follow practice, there still exist current challenges on answering the concrete questions. Often the political
interests are to broad leaving a question mark with actual benefits of different kinds of performance argues Lise and Simon.
On a broader note, Lise elaborated on the conference:
‘The conference confirmed my experience, that great and interesting development is taking form at the agenda for public
innovation in Denmark. Researchers and practitioners investigate and bring together new ways of collaborating about
developing the public sector. This is also the case in the area of the primary and lower secondary school, where an increasing
interest for quantitative research including RCT studies is present. It is great to see that a new generation of young
researchers is eager to take part in this research area. Furthermore the conference provided me with new knowledge on
concrete investigations on management, which absolutely is productive in relation and
brings new perspectives to my own current work.’
Professor and expert in the area Ken Meier ended the day with a presentation on Public
Management, Motivation and Organizational Performance. Meier is a front runner on
research within public management especially in the area of education. For a number of
years he has been editor and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
(JPART).
Lene Holm Pedersen, Professor at CBS and KORA, one of the main organizers behind the
conference, said after the productive day:
‘We should do this more. Bring research and practice closer together. The conference made it
clear that there is a need to rethink how steering and motivation interacts. Research has made progress on the mechanisms
and associations between steering, motivation and public sector performance, and the practitioners contributed with real life
examples and consequences for public management.’
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New report on PPP by KORA
New report on Public-Private Partnerships published by KORA
The PPP's strategic partner KORA has published a new report with the aim of providing a framework and an overview of
central tendencies, models and current practice based learning within the field of PPP.
The report's main focus is PPP projects concerning infrastructure. The report, which is based on national and international
research, analysis and reports, has revealed a shortcoming in general documentation and evidence concerning PPPs.
More comprehensive analysis of the effect of PPPs haven't been undertaken in Denmark, in comparison, for instance with
the UK, Norway and Spain where evaluation and analysis has indicated very mixed results.
The report is financed by OAO, FTF and LO, and motivated by a wish for more
comprehensive models and practice based knowledge concerning PPP. The report is
entirely independent.
Read more and download the report here.
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Report on Equality, Equity and Public Services
Forum and project on Equality Exchange
The British Council Denmark is one of the Platform’s ongoing collaborators. In September they
launched new report on ‘Perspectives from UK on Equality, Equity and Public Services’. The
report is a part of their project Equality Exchange – an initiative aiming at putting equality at the
heart of public service innovation.
With arguments such as societies are changing: increasingly diverse communities, local economic variations, aging
populations and technological advances all contribute to a new backdrop upon which our lives unfold. The Equality Exchange
project tries to address and answer some of these new forms of change in society in a UK/Nordic perspective, and try to bring
to the table new forms of debate and sources of ideas and inspiration. The project takes form as a forum for ideas, inspiration
and skills that relate to how public services can contribute to fairer, more inclusive and more equal societies.
Amongst others the project looks at already existing forms of innovative initiatives going on in the Nordic countries and the
UK. Exchanging such real-live cases cross boarders change programs will be an effective and adaptable supplement to thinking
and acting strategically about these tasks. Read much more about the project here.
Perspectives from UK on Equality, Equity and Public Services
The report which is launched today consists of five think pieces. The
primary focus of collecting these ‘essays’ from different experts and
thought leaders is argued to be threefold: to build a solid base of
understanding in the field, to provide a common point of reference for
project partners and to highlight just some of the innovative and successful
case studies already underway.
In the report you can read about:
- Equality and equity through progressive public-sector spending, by Niel McInroy, Centre for Local Economic Strategies.
- Equality, equity and choice, by David Boyle, New Weather Institute
- Public services and equality: why it matters, and why we need a new approach, by Henry Kippin, RSA 2020 Public Services
- Public services and (in)equality in an age of austerity, by Joe Penny, New Economics Foundation
- Reducing health inequalities – the challenge of public health, by John Craig, Innovation Unit
The five essays have been written from a UK perspective, but with relevance to Nordic countries. These articles will be
supplemented by complementary think-pieces written from Nordic viewpoints in the coming months.
Download the report here.
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PPPs & the Optimum Size of Government
Public lecture with Larry Blain on Public-Private Partnerships & the Optimum Size of
Government
On September 4 Larry Blain, the Canadian PhD in
economy, consultant, corporate director and
expert on PPP visited the Platform to discuss the
development of PPP.
Over the past decade, the Public-Private
Partnership market in Canada has become one of
the most active and attractive in the world.
Blain elaborated on his thoughts on the evolution
of the market, the various success factors, and
the benefits that PPP procurement has brought to
Canada. Furthermore he outlined his approach to
PPP in British Columbia and the role of Partnerships BC.
Throughout his presentation great attention were focused on the arguments and concerns toward risk balance and
economic benefits in PPP. Blain argued that you will have problems if you take all the risk yourself. The cost of raising
money as government is not the same as the investment return you actually should require when you invest in a project.
British Columbia in Canada has a central government PPP unit with 50 staff. They mix expertise in procurement, investment
and governance. PPPs in Canada are regularly scrutinized by government auditors which takes the drama out of PPP. The
Canadian experience with PPP is fast becoming an inspiration for other countries around the world.
Did you miss out on the seminar - you can now watch it at CBS Cast if you search for Larry Blain.
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Danish Internet Governance Forum
Danish Internet Governance Forum conference
What do you think of internet driven innovation?
On September 26, 2013, the conference Danish Internet Governance
Forum took place for the fifth time, co-facilitated by the Public-Private
Platform.
The conference presented amongst others Global Director of Public
Policy at Google Nicklas Lundblad and the Danish digital entrepreneur
and innovator Thomas Madsen Mygdal.
The conference focused on amongst others digital business models,
democracy, growth, governance and smart cities. The Platform hosted
the event on behalf of the Danish Business Authority .
Internet driven innovation according to Neelie Kroes
‘For economic growth social innovation is an important part in itself’
said the EU commissioner for the European Digital Agenda Neelie
Kroes in her video-speak at the conference. Watch it at YouTube here.
Read more about the conference here.
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CBS Public-Private Platform publications
Cluster facilitator and professor Niels Åkerstrøm has had a very productive quarter
Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen publishes new book
What does it mean to organize when the only established premise is that everything is
transient? How is it possible for an organization to manage expectations based on the
expectation of the unexpected?
In this thought-provoking book Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen uses a unique combination of
deconstruction, systems theory and discourse theory to critically discuss topics such as the
management of feelings, partnerships as second order promises, and work-life balance as an
immune defence against over-socialized employees. He assesses the parallels between
layoffs in intimate organizations and modern professional divorce discourses, and explores
the dichotomy of double-bounded management commanding both 'do as I say' and 'be
autonomous'. In so doing, Professor Andersen encourages the reader to look at relationships
in the workplace in new ways.
This unique book will prove invaluable for academics and students of human resource
management, organizational behavior and critical management studies. Find the book here.
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New work on hyper responsibility by Niels Åkerstrøm and Hanne Knudsen
Professor Niels Åkerstrøm and associate professor Hanne Knudsen
presents new work on hyper responsibility. In their work they describe
today’s form of responsibility as hyper responsibility. 20 years ago
responsibility were moderate and concrete – today we experience
boundless responsibility which in the same time invites individuals to act
in charge of own actions. Read about their new research here.
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The Danes have too much responsibility - article by Åkerstrøm in Berlingske
The Danes have too much responsibility argues cluster facilitator at the platform
cluster Shifting Forms of Public Governance Niels Åkerstrøm in an article in Berlingske
the 31st of August. Politicians want the citizens to take more responsibility for own
behaviour when at the same time the citizens gain more responsibility at work, at the
childrens’ school and in relation to the healthcare system. It ends up undermining the
personal responsibility argues Åkerstrøm. Read the article here.
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CBS Public-Private Platform publications
Paul du Gay is co-editor of new journal
Alongside Ricca Edmondson, Eeva Luhtakallio and Charles Turner, Academic
Director of the Public-Private Platform, Paul du Gay, is the editor of a new
journal to be launched in 2014 - The European Journal of Cultural and Political
Sociology. The journal's most general aim is to foster and perhaps rekindle the
sort of intellectual sensibility that was once a staple of the sociological tradition.
Find the journal here.
The journal is an initiative of the European Sociological Association and the
international publisher Taylor Francis Routledge. The study of culture is the
fastest growing area in both European and North American sociology. After years of mild neglect, political sociology is also
re-establishing itself as a central plank of the discipline. The European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology aims to be a
forum not so much for these fields of study considered separately, as for any work that explores the relationship between
culture and politics through a sound sociological lens.
The journal takes an ecumenical view of ‘culture’: it welcomes articles that address the political setting, resonance or use of
any of the arts (literature, art, music etc.), but it is also open to work that construes political phenomena in terms of a more
philosophical or anthropological understanding of culture, where culture refers to the most general problem of meaningformation. As for work that lies between these poles, it might address the relationship between politics and religion in all its
forms, political symbolism past and present, styles of political leadership, political communication, the culture of political
parties and movements, cultural policy, artists as political agents, and many other related areas.
The journal is not committed to any particular methodological approach, nor will it restrict itself to European authors or
material with a European focus. It will carry articles with an historical as well as a topical flavor. The journal aims to have a
robust book reviews section, and while the language of reviews will be English, they wish to promote reviews of and review
articles about significant new work written in other languages.
Carsten Greve writes column on PPP and transport for Altinget.dk
Academic Director Carsten Greve contributed to the Danish website Altinget.dk with a column on
PPP in the transport sector. The main message was that Denmark can learn from Canada when it
comes to infrastructure PPPs. Drawing on Partnership BC’s Larry Blain’s lecture in early September
2013, Carsten Greve suggested that Canada (British Columbia) has established a central
government PPP unit, have a flow of PPP projects, and have a sound economy for PPP projects.
The column suggests that Denmark should study the Canadian experience carefully and pick up
the good elements from their successful PPP program.
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CBS Public-Private Platform news
Cluster member Karen Boll’s research on the Danish Tax Authorities has been popular in the
media this quarter
Platform member Karen Boll has been interviewed in Information and in DR2 Deadline about SKAT, the Danish Tax and
Customs Administration. In the interviews Karen takes a look back at the organisational changes which have taken place in
SKAT and describes how these changes can be related to the current criticisms of SKAT’s
administrative procedures. Particularly Karen focusses on changes in the tax inspectors’
professional knowledge, staff reductions and shifts in the enforcement strategies. In
general, Karen Boll’s research focusses on changes and reforms in the public sector and
how this affects the ’front line’ civil servants and stats’ relationships to their citizens.
Karen Boll interviewed in Information
Platform member Karen Boll was interviewed in the Danish newspaper
Information. In the interview Karen describes how SKAT is moving away
from tax controls and instead is focusing on campaigns targeted to society,
citizens and industries. This means a shift from internal organizational
success criteria to external criteria, which affects the employees’
professionalism in SKAT – and causes frustration.
Read more in the newspaper version of Information from October 1,
2013.
Cluster member Karen Boll in DR2 Deadline
Karen Boll, member of the platform cluster Shifting Forms of Public Governance, guested the Danish broadcasting program
DR2 Deadline on August 21 for a talk about her research on Denmark’s tax authority SKAT. Together with Bent Winther,
political editor at Berlingske, she elaborated on the misjudgements and the problems related to SKAT's prioritization and
handling of tasks and the movements towards a less trust based relationship between the tax authority and the public
sector.
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When health policy meets everyday practices
When Health Policy Meets Every Day Practices ‐ 9th International Organisational
Behaviour in Healthcare Conference
On the 23‐25 April, 2014 the 9th International Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare Conference will take place at CBS. The
theme of the conference will be “When health policy meets every day practices”. The event is hosted by the CBS Public‐
Private Platform. We expect about 120 participants from Continental Europe, the Nordic and Baltic countries, the UK and
Ireland, North America and Australia/New Zealand.
At CBS the conference is organized by cluster facilitator Anne Reff Pedersen and Teaching Facilitator Susanne Boch
Waldorff.
Anne elaborates on the conference:
‘We are happy to be hosting the 9th international Organizational Behaviour
in Health Care (OBHC) conference here at CBS, as it is first time the
conference takes place in a Nordic country. In this way CBS researchers will
obtain new roles as international collaborators which hopefully will give rise
to attracting some of the world’s leading organizational researchers within
the area of health research to visit and collaborate with Denmark and
especially CBS. The last years we have been in close collaboration with
British scientists, so when they suggested that CBS should be this year’s
host, we were very happy. Last time it took place in Dublin and the year
before in Birmingham. Our ambition is to bring together Nordic and
international researchers with the aim of creating broader networks and to
set focus on the values Nordic researchers has can bring to the table at a conference as OBHC. The CBS Public-Private
Platform is host as they holds great experience in international conferences and collaborations. Furthermore the platform is
already coordinator of a line of events within the area of health and public organisations and steering’.
We look forward to the conference and hope that several of CBS’ own researchers will participate and join the
international guests. Keynotes will among others be the Nordic experts Kerstin Sahlin and Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen. Both
will talk about the theme of the conference: How is health politics implemented in everyday organizational practice?
Visit the conference webpage.
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New faces at the CBS Public-Private Platform
Poul F. Kjær, Professor MSO, CBS Department of Business and Politics
Poul joins the PPP cluster Shifting Forms of Public Governance.
Poul F. Kjær is Professor MSO at the Department of Business and
Politics and Principal Investigator of the European Research
Council Project “Institutional Transformation in European Political
Economy” (ITEPE) which is running until 2017.
ITEPE explores the evolution of intermediary institutions in the
European context from the 1850s till today and most notably why
and with what consequences consecutive switches between
corporatist, neo-corporatist and governance institutions took
place. The central aim is thus to increase our understanding of
the nature of the relations and exchanges between the economy
and the rest of society.
Poul’s educational background is in sociology, political science and law. Prior to joining CBS he conducted his research at,
among other places, the University of Copenhagen, Goethe University Frankfurt and the European University Institute in
Florence.
Maya Flensborg Jensen, PhD Fellow, CBS Department of Organization
Maya joins the PPP clusters Shifting Forms of Public Governance and Health Governance
Maya Flensborg Jensen is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Organization
at CBS. She holds a Master in Public Administration and Psychology and
was formerly a consultant and researcher.
As a consultant, she worked with various authorities, unions, and agencies
to improve work environments within the public sector.
In her PhD Maya focuses on the relationship between professional
identities and change in public policies and organization. This relationship
between identity and change is approached empirically by investigating
Rehabilitation as a concept and practice - a growing phenomenon within
the public sector.
Maya asks how Rehabilitation has emerged and stabilized in response to
contemporary challenges within the public sector and she looks in particular at the role of professional groups.
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New faces at the CBS Public-Private Platform
Haldor Byrkjeflot, Professor, University of Oslo
Joins the PPP Clusters Shifting Forms of Public Governance and Health
Governance.
Professor Haldor Byrkjeflot joins the Platform as an associate member of the
platform cluster about Shifting Forms of Public Governance as well as the Health
Governance cluster.
Haldor is currently at the department of sociology and human geography at
University of Oslo and 20% of his position is located at Uni Rokkansenteret,
University of Bergen. Haldor holds a PhD. at Department of Administration and
Organization at University of Bergen. The PhD degree has fulfilled all
requirements for the PhD Degree in sociology at UC Berkeley. His research
interests entails public and private management, comparative studies of
management and organization, health systems and health management,
strategic communication in the public sector, bureaucracy and anti-bureaucracy.
Learn more about Haldor Byrkjeflot here.
Visits
Associate professor Tamyko Ysa from Esade Business School in Spain is visiting the Public-Private
Platform as a visiting scholar this fall. In the next newsletter we will share a longer news story on
her visit and work.
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, she has presented papers at national and international congresses
and she has given courses, seminars and lectures.
Learn more about Tamyko Ysa here.
Australian writer and policy advisor Tom Bentley visited the Platform in September in
connection with his participation at the conference How Public Design? organised by our strategic
partner MindLab. Tom is based in Melbourne, but will be a Velux Foundation guest professor at the
platform in 2014. More information on this will follow soon.
Learn more about Tom Bentley here.
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CBS Platform clusters
The Platform has developed six clusters under the platform umbrella. The members
within the respective clusters meet during the year to discuss their theme, hold
seminars and develop research proposals together. Each cluster is facilitated by a
CBS researcher with a special interest and expertise in the fields. CBS researchers,
who are interested in joining one or more of the clusters should contact Project
Manager Mette Lisby and the respective cluster facilitator(s).
Global regulation: The cluster ‘Global Regulation’ focuses on global and transnational issues under the public-private umbrella. Members research themes such as politi‐
cal governance of business, international sustainability, international conflicts, the
role of the public or private sector in economic and peace development and stabilization, emerging economies and transparency.
Health governance: The cluster ‘Health’ focuses on issues of different issues of
health under the public-private umbrella. Research themes investigated by the cluster members includes governance of health in different organizational levels; health
partnering, healthcare management as well as healthcare politics and policies. The
Health cluster links to Center for Health Management at Department of Organization.
Internet, Business and Society: The cluster ‘Internet, Business and Society’ explores
the intersection of the internet and the public and private sector. Engaging scholars
as well as practitioners, the cluster seeks to understand 1) how digital technologies
facilitate new forms of communication, organization and governance and 2) how the
internet shapes and is shaped by politics, policies and standards. Current research
activities focus on ‘big data’, digital media affordances and traces, organizational
transparency, global internet politics and the emergence of new forms of multistakeholder governance involving public and private actors, such as companies, international organizations and civil society groups.
Public-Private partnerships, procurement and outsourcing: The cluster ‘PublicPrivate Partnerships, Procurement and Outsourcing’ looks at different forms and elements of Public-Private partnerships. Members of the cluster research themes such
as at the institutional format for partnerships; issues of accountability therein; political reforms, different forms of standards; legal complications and possibilities for
and in partnerships and competition as well as procurement and outsourcing.
Shifting Forms of Public Governance: The cluster ‘Shifting forms of public governance’ focuses on the different issues around the public sector. Research themes include: how private sector management influences management in the public sector;
modernization of and change in the public sector; as well as understanding PublicPrivate partnerships in a sociological perspective.
Urban governance: The cluster Urban Governance is interested in issues around
governance and the urban area. This cluster focuses on three research themes: 1)
Figuring out the city by looking at traces, translation and visualization of data; 2)
Governing the city by looking at the cognitive and numerical infrastructure that informs policy and decision-making in urban change projects, and how design and
strategies emerge; 3) The right to the city by researching how processes of urban
governance constitute (the) public(s), and how forms of social organization
(collectives, crowds, social movements etc.) emerge in these processes.
Meet the PPP cluster
facilitators
Morten Ougaard
Global Regulation
Nanna Mik-Meyer
Health governance
Anne Reff-Pedersen
Health Governance
Mikkel Flyverbom
Internet, Business
and Society
Christina Tvarnø
Public-Private Part‐
nerships, procure‐
ment & outsour‐
ching
Niels Åkerstrøm
Shifting forms of
public governance
Martin Kornberger
Urban Governance
Christian Borch
Urban Governance
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Public-Private Platform Directors and Employees
Paul Du Gay, Academic Director
Paul du Gay is Academic Director of the platform. Paul is Globaliseringsprofessor at CBS, where he directs the
Velux Foundation Research Programme ’What Makes Organization?: resuscitating organizational theory/revitalising organizational life’. Paul has written extensively on questions of identity and ethics in public service,
on office holding and bureaucracy, and on various aspects of public governance. E-mail Paul.
Carsten Greve, Academic Director
Carsten Greve is Academic Director of the platform. Carsten is a professor of Public Management and
Governance at CBS. Carsten’s research areas are public-private cooperation and partnerships, public
management in a comparative perspective, regulatory reform, and public management reform and new
approaches to public management-, leadership- and governance, including New Public Management. Read his
blog or forward an e-mail.
Mette Lisby, Project Manager
Mette Lisby is Project Manager of the platform and holds a graduate degree in cand.soc.Political
Communication and Management CBS, where her thesis concerned public-private partnerships in a theoretical
trust perspective. Mette is also the co-author of the chapters Danish Cancer Society and Aarstiderne in the
casebook Strategier i praksis (Eds. Lise Justesen and Susanne Boch Waldorff). Moreover, Mette was awarded
the FUHU Education Prize 2012 along with the team behind Strateginet for the development of the educational
website. Mette is the one to contact if you have any inquiries or questions about the work of the platform.
Julie Munk, Communication Officer
Julie Munk holds a BSc. In Communication and Business studies. She is the Communication Officer at the PP
Platform and is currently finishing her graduate-degree in Political Communication and Management at CBS
writing her thesis on network government and policy initiatives. Julie has previous been engaged in crosssectorial work in relation with her engagement in the organization Suitable for Business and from her former
job at Copenhagen Finance IT Region. Contact Julie regarding communicative matters.
Nanna Helene Jensen, Administrative assistant
Nanna holds a BSc. in International Business and Politics from Copenhagen Business School. She is presently
doing her graduate degree at CBS in International Business and Politics as well. Nanna assists the platform in
several areas, but her main task is administrative assistance. Nanna is also a part of planning and facilitating
conferences and seminars hosted by the platform, and she performs many of the administrative tasks in this
regard but also practical assistance at the seminars and conferences. Email Nanna.
Susanne Boch Waldorff, Teaching facilitator
Susanne Waldorff, assistant Professor CBS, is affiliated to the platform as teaching facilitator. She coordinates
and facilitates the development of teaching initiatives within the public-private theme and will be looking into
how we can expand the public-private debate at already existing courses and programs as well as re-thinking
the notion of public-private in the creation of new teaching programs at CBS. Contact Susanne via e-mail.
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Upcoming events
Launch: PPP report by the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority
Barriers for public‐private partnerships in Denmark?
On December 9, 2013, the Danish Competition and
Consumer Authority will launch a new report about barriers inhibiting the development of public‐private partnerships in
Denmark. The launch and presentation will take place in collaboration with the CBS Public‐Private Platform.
The report sheds light on the problems experienced by Danish municipalities and regions when they undertake a PPP. The
number of PPP projects has increased over the last few years, but the model is still not widely applied in Denmark. The
advantages and challenges of PPP have been debated for many years. But there has not yet been a thorough analysis of why
Danish municipalities and regions do not engage in PPP more vigorously. In their report, the Danish Competition and
Consumer authority wishes to draw a picture of what actually prevents actors from undertaking PPP projects. This knowledge,
they argue, can contribute to breaking down barriers and make the debate about PPP in Denmark more concrete and
operational.
More information will follow at the website. Read about the last PPP report launch here.
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Focus on Local Political Leadership
The local elections for 2013 are just around the corner. The CBS Public‐Private Platform and KORA invite you to attend a
seminar about local political leadership. Since the last election the Danish municipalities have experienced enormous
economic pressures. At the seminar we aim to discuss how the challenges created by the economic situation influence the
focus of the forthcoming election. Amongst others, Erik Nielsen, the president of Local Government DK will participate in the
event . The seminar will be in Danish, read more here.
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Upcoming guest lectures
Seminar: Efficiency vs. Flexibility in Public‐Private
Partnerships with professor Thomas Ross
The Public‐Private Platform continues its autumn seminar series about Public‐
Private Partnerships with a research seminar with leading Canadian expert on
Public‐Private Partnerships, Thomas Ross, from Sauder School of Business at the
University of British Columbia.
The seminar is open for all to attend, who is interested in the subject. Sign-up at
publicprivateplatform@cbs.dk.
At the seminar Thomas Ross will present his new paper on PPPs. The paper is on
“Efficiency vs. Flexibility in Public‐Private Partnerships” (co‐author Jing Yan). The
paper focuses on what governments can do when it chooses between a PPP
project and traditional procurement. According to Ross & Yan, the decision
depends (among other things) on the likelihood that changes will be necessary
CBS Public-Private Platform
ISSUE 7 Fall 2013
Next issue Winter 2013
during the contract period.
Thomas Ross is a leading Canadian expert on
Public-Private Partnerships. He is a Professor of
Regulation and Competition Policy at Sauder
School of Business at the University of British
Columbia. He is also Director of the Phelps
Center
for
the
Study
of
Business
and
Government. He has written influential journal
articles and book chapters on PPPs. Thomas Ross
is Guest Professor at Department of Economics,
Copenhagen Business School, in the fall of 2013.
CBS Public-Private Platform
Programme
13.50-14.00: Doors open, coffee and tea
14.00-14.05: Welcome by Professor Carsten Greve
14.05-14.55: Presentation by Professor Thomas Ross
14.55-16.00: Open discussion
Read more here.
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