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Evidenced based decision making in public policy for innovating firms
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/22769 Evidenced based decision making in public policy for innovating firms Barnard, Helena ichelp@gibs.co.za Miny, Marnie UCTD Evidence based policy Network Public policy Innovation Corporate political activity Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. Firms require policies that are supportive to their operating environment and competiveness. Few firms, however, interact with policy makers and it is suggested in the literature that they do so in a self-interested manner. Policy makers are faced with the challenge of ensuring positive sum outcomes in a highly politicised process. Innovative firms could possible request more value creating policies with noninnovative firms requesting value capturing policies. A firm that is more networked is more innovative, but this also increases the management complexity of the firm. The purpose of this study was to enable policy makers to make more informed political decisions in the public policy process. A secondary dataset focused on firms in the innovation context. Groups of firms were categorised by their innovativeness, involvement with policy and network richness through Chi-square tests, Exploratory Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis. The policy requests of these firms were analysed through the Kruskal-Wallis test, with post hoc analyses using Mann-Whitney U tests. The study found that firms could be categorised based on their innovativeness and involvement, but that network richness played an important role in increasing both. Innovative and non-innovative firms had similar needs in policies. It is suggested that richly networked firms are not independently rent seeking as they request policies that are to the benefit of the broader innovation network in order to sustain and grow the collaborative relationships. Policy makers are advised to ensure the inclusion of network rich firms in the policy process. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T13:44:29Z 2013-04-29 2013-09-06T13:44:29Z 2013-04-25 2012 2013-02-23 Dissertation Miny, M 2012, Evidenced based decision making in public policy for innovating firms, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22769 > F13/4/221/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22769 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232013-160015/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Evidence based policy Network Public policy Innovation Corporate political activity Evidenced based decision making in public policy for innovating firms |
| title | Evidenced based decision making in public policy for innovating firms |
| title_full | Evidenced based decision making in public policy for innovating firms |
| title_fullStr | Evidenced based decision making in public policy for innovating firms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evidenced based decision making in public policy for innovating firms |
| title_short | Evidenced based decision making in public policy for innovating firms |
| title_sort | evidenced based decision making in public policy for innovating firms |
| topic | UCTD Evidence based policy Network Public policy Innovation Corporate political activity |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22769 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232013-160015/ |