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Research report presented to SBL, Unisa, Midrand. / No abstract

Thesis (M.M. (Finance & Investment))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, 2013. / The lack of a framework for selecting appropriate funding mechanisms results in costly and inefficient financing of public infrastructure projects in South Africa. The purpose of this research was to determine the nature, the utilisation and the appropriateness of various public infrastructure financing mechanisms. Twenty major public infrastructure projects were used to conduct the exploratory study of public infrastructure financing practices in South Africa. Although the research found that South African financing practices were similar to practices in developed economies, it was also found that the capacity of public institutions to manage infrastructure projects needed strengthening. The research further found that markets for other mechanisms had to be developed further to provide more financing options. Finally, a conceptual framework that provides a consistent and systematic process in selecting appropriate and efficient public infrastructure financing decisions was proposed.

University of Macau / Faculty of Science and Technology. / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Thesis (PhD (Public Affairs))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Globalisation and the quest for competitiveness in a global market represents a new era of connectedness within public-private networks of experts in an effort to pursue research objectives in advanced technology industries. Balancing the competing interests of public good and private gain, reducing the barriers in terms of access to knowledge and intellectual property and ensuring that efforts result in socially valuable outcomes in the form of new innovations can be difficult, to say the least. <p>Although widely advocated and implemented, collaborations have not, as yet, been fully examined nor have appropriate performance evaluation models been developed to evaluate them. This dissertation hypothesizes that a history of social relationships or collaborative activity amongst network actors is positively correlated with high performance in networks. Incorporating descriptive statistics with the social network analysis tool, this dissertation proposes and tests a novel framework and compares two distinct Genome Canada funded research networks. Other factors explored are the roles of proximity, institution and research focus in characterizing network structure and in affecting performance.

Globalisation and the quest for competitiveness in a global market represents a new era of connectedness within public-private networks of experts in an effort to pursue research objectives in advanced technology industries. Balancing the competing interests of public good and private gain, reducing the barriers in terms of access to knowledge and intellectual property and ensuring that efforts result in socially valuable outcomes in the form of new innovations can be difficult, to say the least. <p>Although widely advocated and implemented, collaborations have not, as yet, been fully examined nor have appropriate performance evaluation models been developed to evaluate them. This dissertation hypothesizes that a history of social relationships or collaborative activity amongst network actors is positively correlated with high performance in networks. Incorporating descriptive statistics with the social network analysis tool, this dissertation proposes and tests a novel framework and compares two distinct Genome Canada funded research networks. Other factors explored are the roles of proximity, institution and research focus in characterizing network structure and in affecting performance.

The globalization era has brought along fierce competition and fast connection and contact. To ensure national competitiveness, countries all over the world have conducted various reforms on internal operation and the formulation and implementation of policies. Since the 1980¡¦s, the U.K. and the U.S., by adopting new public management theories on the creation of an efficient government, have promoted the privatization of the public sector, the outsourcing of government¡¦s non-core services and the diversification of public facility management. This paper focus on four park and green land in Kaohsiung as to study the object, addressed the outsourcing performance and matching the depth interview method, entrusting the organization, operator, government, carry on concerning the interview of the dilemma and fruit that meets in the privately owned management process of an area run by private capital. Hope by the sorting review of the related cultural heritage, and "the outsourcing business model of partner's direction" of this research development, has the more thorough understanding to an area in Kaohsiung City, provide the actual situation and the suggestion on the policy. Through the review and study of policy implementation of local governments, the author suggests that local governments should create and supports at the partner up, contain the imperfection that the knowledge management, experience spreads to accept. The passive old bureaucrat mindset of the information, don't understand for the job, also cause three harassment of the manufacturer, government, people in contract. This paper basis "the outsourcing business model of partner's direction" to do the policy and the suggestion on the actual situation, providing the manufacturer, government, people with three aspect the outsourcing management model of join force operate.