Water is subject to uncertainty of supply (quantity) and quality, which affects decisions determining allocation, use and management for human and environmental functions. Tensions concerning water and its allocation reflect conflicting ideologies influencing development. Focusing on water governance enables the allocation and management of environmental resources and tensions in development to be explored. ¶ This research has as its central argument the notion that water governance is conceptualised differently at different scales and as discourses become localised, hybrid forms emerge. Place-specific hybrid governance systems which are cognisant of transformations in the local political economy and environmental characteristics can be useful in managing risks and uncertainty about water supply. This is particularly so where local knowledge about formal institutions regulating water governance and environmental conditions is low. This is because hybrid systems are more likely to be responsive to local needs than national or supra-national discourse allows. However, there are limitations with hybrid systems, particularly in terms of allocating responsibility and risk, which require effective coordination. ¶ The aim of this research is to uncover local perspectives and knowledge about water governance and hybridity in urban environments which can be used to shape and influence urban water management. I explore the hybridisation of water governance by considering the problem of ensuring urban water supply in a developing country context. The research was undertaken as an inductive, qualitative inquiry comprising a case study in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, the Philippines. Tagbilaran is a small sized city with a population of approximately 87,000 people. The city is experiencing relatively rapid population growth along with urban development and expansion in which water demand already outstrips water supply. Ethnographic, interpretive techniques were used to distil local perspectives about water governance which are juxtaposed with official policy and discourse. Research methods included participant observation, semi-structured interviews with government employees, government officials and key informants from other organisations. Other methods included structured household surveys and the use of documentary sources. ¶ This research reveals how formal approaches to urban water governance systems have been shaped by international development thinking and discourse. Current strategies to manage water emphasise an integrated approach which encompasses environmental, social and economic domains. At the same time neoliberal discourse exerts a powerful influence over how urban water is conceptualised and managed, and who should be responsible for its provision. The case study allows for the exploration of the ways in which development and water governance discourse have been articulated and the consideration of the local factors which have enabled the emergence of hybrid water supply services embedded in a localised hybrid governance system. ¶ I show how water governance in Tagbilaran is hybrid because of the global-local dialectic that informs policy and practice, public-private engagement in water provision, and inter-jurisdictional water sharing. I also demonstrate how households’ experiences of water supply and their physical environment influence decisions about household allocation and perceptions about human-environment interactions and water security. As a consequence, knowledge about water governance held at the household level emerges as localised and specific in which everyday experience shapes ideas around responsibility and agency such that local forms of government and engagement have more meaning for households than national and supra-national discourse. The juxtaposition of formal, bureaucratic governance institutions with household knowledge exposes multiple understandings of water governance and water supply in Tagbilaran. ¶ The findings of this research reveal that household conceptions of water governance are divorced from formal conceptions of water governance. There is a risk, therefore, that an over-emphasis on network expansion without due consideration of water resource management may lead to greater levels of consumption. This will continue to place pressure on resources and may ultimately lead to water insecurity. This is because local knowledge of the formal political, economic, and administrative institutions is limited at the household level. Therefore, this research argues that local perspectives and knowledge need to be incorporated more into management and policy decision making. Alternatively, greater effort needs to be made to communicate formal policy to the household level.

Hybrid governance in Latin America A case study of the response of Mexican criminal syndicates to the COVID-19 pandemic Wordcount: 20282 International Master in Security Intelligence and Strategic Studies 2409572N 29/07/2021 Abstract In the academia, long dominated by a Western state-centric approach, the idea of the coexistence of different orders of social domination emerged in the nineties. It set the premises for the academic literature on hybrid governance. This research area is very recent and still developing. Hence, the fields of application of this concept in the academic literature are diverse but still too limited. Therefore, this dissertation arises from the consideration that it would be interesting to further investigate the applicability of this under-exploited notion. In particular, it looks at criminal organizations in Latin America through the case study of Mexican drug cartels amid the pandemic. This case presents the key characteristics of hybridity, hence making it a relevant tool to analyze it. The finding of the possibility of the applicability of hybrid governance as an analytical lens to understand Mexican drug cartels during the pandemic suggests the possibility to expand the field of application of this concept. It leads to a broader reflection on hybrid governance schemes with...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:50:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2991.pdf: 889971 bytes, checksum: 4869b7d3167274a33ec46d702ac75127 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-25 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / Focusing on hierarchy as an alternative to market, the New Institutional Economics (NIE) initially focused narrowly on the intermediary organizations. However, this situation started to change when Williamson (1985) stated that such intermediary transactions are the most common ones and denominated them hybrid governance in 1991. The studies carried out in the 80s and 90s enabled, among other factors, the distinction between hybrid governance and hierarchy resulting in an arousing interest in the development of contracts and the different coordination mechanisms in the field of NIE. More recently, some authors have highlighted the importance of studies on hybrid governance in the agricultural sector. Thus, the objective of this thesis is to indicate the existence of hybrid governance forms that complement the contract in transactions of supplying fair trade orange juice to the European market, as well as to point out the determining factors of this kind of governance. Therefore, the institutional environment of the agro-industrial fair trade is analyse, still poorly investigated in scientific studies in Brazil, and hybrid governance, considering the contributions of Ménard (1997, 2004) to the development of the concepts of NIE, were analyzed. Secondary data were considered and a field research was carried out both in Brazil and in Europe. Interviews were conducted with organizations of citrus farmers that are already inserted in the international citrus fruit fair trade, with export and import orange juice companies, and with some key agents. The analyses showed that orange juice supply transactions of the fair trade are administered by complex mechanisms that are more complex than contracts. Due to investments on human and brand name asset specificities, and the uncertainties related to the institutional environment of fair trande market, the contracts alone are not enough to conduct the transactions. Hence, coordination mechanisms, also known as mechanisms of adaptation are adopted based on two forms of private authority. On one hand, there is the authority performed by the certifying organization that constitutes a formal government. It establishes the norms and the production and trade standards in the fair trade of certified products, which leads to selecting the actors in the orange juice supply chain. The formal government also controls demands satisfaction rates and verifies whether the transactions are carried according to pre-established standards. In addition, it offers incentives to the adoption of organic citrus production and to long-term relationships. On the other hand, there is the informal authority: trust. Unlike the former, it is present in some cases and among some specific actors leading to a different way of selecting actors and controlling the factors that were not investigated by the formal government, such as the informal annual supply agreements between citrus farmers organizations and fair trade expert importers. / Focando sua atenção sobre a hierarquia como uma alternativa ao mercado, a Nova Economia Institucional (NEI) inicialmente pouco estudou os modos de organização intermediários. Esta situação começou a mudar quando Williamson (1985) afirmou estar convencido de que estas transações intermediárias são as mais comuns, denominando-as, em 1991, como governança híbrida. Os trabalhos desenvolvidos nas décadas de 80 e 90 permitiram, entre outros fatores, diferenciar a governança híbrida da hierárquica, o que gerou um aumento no interesse sobre o desenvolvimento dos contratos e dos diferentes mecanismos de coordenação no campo da NEI. Mais recentemente, alguns autores têm destacado a importância dos estudos sobre a governança híbrida na agricultura. Seguindo esta linha de pesquisa, este trabalho de tese tem o objetivo de mostrar que existem formas de governança híbrida complementares aos contratos nas transações de fornecimento de suco de laranja brasileiro do comércio justo para a Europa e também apontar os fatores determinantes deste tipo de governança. Para isso é analisado os ambientes institucional do comércio justo agroindustrial, ainda pouco conhecido no meio acadêmico brasileiro, e a governança híbrida, considerando as contribuições de Ménard (1997, 2004) para o desenvolvimento conceitual da NEI. Foram considerados dados secundários e uma pesquisa de campo foi realizada no Brasil e na Europa, sendo entrevistadas as organizações de citricultores brasileiros já inseridas no comércio justo citrícola internacional, algumas empresas exportadoras e importadoras do suco de laranja brasileiro, assim como certos agentes-chaves. As análises realizadas permitiram mostrar que as transações de fornecimento de suco de laranja do comércio justo são governadas por mecanismos mais complexos que os contratos. Devido aos investimentos em especificidades de ativos humanos e de marca, assim como as incertezas relacionadas ao ambiente institucional do comércio justo, os contratos não são, isoladamente, suficientes para governar as transações. Assim, mecanismos de coordenação, também chamados de mecanismos de adaptação são adotados, sendo eles cristalizados em dois tipos de autoridade privada. De um lado tem-se uma autoridade formal desempenhada pela empresa certificadora que constitui uma instituição ad hoc. Ela determina as normas e os padrões da produção e da realização das trocas no comércio justo de produtos certificados, o que a leva a selecionar os atores envolvidos na cadeia de fornecimento de suco de laranja. A instituição ad hoc também controla o atendimento dessas exigências e verifica se as transações são realizadas dentro dos padrões pré-estabelecidos. Ela ainda oferece incentivos para que a produção de citrus orgânicos seja adotada e para que as relações sejam de longo prazo. De outro lado, tem-se uma autoridade informal: a confiança. Diferentemente da primeira, ela é presente em alguns casos e entre alguns atores específicos, formando um segundo modo de seleção dos atores e de controle dos fatores não verificados pela instituição ad hoc, como os acordos informais anuais de fornecimento estabelecidos entre as organizações de citricultores e os importadores especializados no comércio justo.

Dans les économies en transition, un mode de gouvernance hybride - le mode de gouvernance clanique – désigne l’interaction de l’entreprise avec son environnement insitutionnel à travers la participation à la politique. Il est caractérisé par la socialisation, la prédominance des pratiques informels et des facteurs non marchands. Il constitue une réaction de la part de l’entreprise à son environnement institutionnel évolutif et turbulent. En Ukraine, les relations entre l’entreprise et les pouvoirs publics sont fondées sur le clientélisme à travers l’échange de ressources. Les entreprises mobilisent leurs ressources politiques sous forme de votes de leurs employés en faveur des partis. En échange, l’entreprise obtient des décideurs politiques une régulation favorable avec une rente sous forme de subvention. Cette thèse cherche à prouver l’existence d’un lien entre les ressources politiques et les ressources économiques de l’entreprise. Les entreprises investissent des ressources disponibles dans l’activité politique pour obtenir des bénéfices. L’activité politique peut être vue par l’entreprise comme une activité profitable. La recherche de la rente constitue modus operandi du mode de gouvernance clanique qui permet d’assurer le fonctionnement efficient de l’entreprise dans un environnement d’affaires particulier. L’informel constitue une autre caractéristique de ce mode de gouvernance. Les échanges de ressources politiques avec les pouvoirs publics sont faits à travers des réseaux sociaux informels dont la configuration permet de définir le périmètre des structures claniques. / In transitional economies, a hybrid mode of corporate governance – the clanic mode – refers to the interaction between the firm and its institutional environment through its participation in politics. It is characterized by socialization, predominance of informal practice and non market factors. It constitutes a recation of the firm towards its evolutive and turbulent institutional environment. In Ukraine, the relations between the firm and the authorities are based on clientelism through an exchange of resources. The firm deploys their political resources represented by votes of their employees in favor of political parties. It obtains form policymakers a favorable regulation through a rent provided via subventions.This thesis seeks to prove the existence of the relation between corporate political and economic resources. The firm invests available resources to obtain benefits. Political activity can be seen as profitable. Rent-seeking constitutes modus operandi of the clanic governance that allows to the firm to operate efficiently in a specific business environment. This mode of governance is also characterized by informal practices. The exchange of resources with policy-makers is made through informal networks whose configuration defines the perimeter of clanic structures.

P(p)ublic A(a)dministration is influenced by multiple factors, inclusive of complex policy issues, multi-faceted forms of accountability and hybrid governance models. Consequently, public administration organisations must strengthen their adaptive and complexity capacity to deal with environmental complexity through adopting a different leadership model that is characterised by distinct but complementary leadership functions. Complexity leadership theory (CLT) is thus adopted as an appropriate theoretical lens for the study due to its integrative, collective and relational approach to leadership, in spite of its limited application in the public administration context. Against this background, the purpose of the study is to apply CLT as the basis to determine the required leadership competencies that should underpin a complex adaptive system such as the Governance and Administration (G&A) Cluster of the South African government because of concerns regarding the unevenness or lack of appropriate leadership competencies, behaviours and skills to make the government cluster system effective. To address the purpose of the study and the underlying research problem, a mixed methods research approach was adopted to investigate the leadership competency implications of Public Administration reforms plus their links with intergovernmental relations developments, and the implications of the transition from leader-centric practices to collective and hybrid forms of leadership. An analysis of existing literature in these areas leads to the conclusion that the G&A Cluster, which is an intergovernmental relations structure, is an integral part of hybrid organisational arrangements whose effectiveness requires a different approach to leadership. The literature analysis further identifies a disjuncture between leader-centric practices and conceptions of leadership as a collective, collaborative and hybrid phenomenon. The disjuncture is attributed to the scarcity of leadership and competency-based management (CBM) literature to guide the development of complexity leadership practice, especially in inter-organisational arrangements, and reliance on theoretical analysis as the basis to propose competencies for complexity leadership. Thus, the study addresses the research question and simultaneously contributes towards knowledge and practice by providing an empirical lens to the dynamics of collective leadership in a government inter-organisational structure and advancing CBM through articulating seven adaptable principles and six competency clusters that inform the development of a meso level leadership competency framework for inter-organisational arrangements. The study is also contributing to the application of CLT in P(p)ublic A(a)dministration and improved understanding of CLT’s leadership functions by clarifying its competency dimensions. The study concludes with an outline of implications and recommendations for inter-organisational leadership competency development and practice as well as recommendations for further research. / Thesis (PhD (Public Administration and Management))--University of Pretoria, 2021. / University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (2019-20210) Office of the Public Service Commission (2021) / School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) / PhD (Public Administration and Management) / Unrestricted

台灣自第一階段農地改革後，逐漸有為降低生產成本與提高農民收入之大規模策略出現。本研究定義出台灣歷經包括農業生產專業區、農地利用綜合規劃之共同經營班與其後之產銷班、稻米產銷專業區與農業經營專區等四種大規模策略之農地集團化利用階段，是在公共秩序之法規命令，與集團成員契約簽訂所建立之私人秩序下而得以成立運作，符合混合式治理的特徵；而此治理理念的應用，可以新制度經濟學中微觀的角度，對組成各階段公共秩序和私人秩序的規則和執行機制，進行治理結構之比較分析。此係分別展現公共秩序與私人秩序規則中，誘因和安全措施是如何的賦予，與集團運作時是藉由第三者執行或自我執行之執行機制，以分析各農地集團化利用階段所採行的混合式治理，其治理結構如何具有階層與市場屬性程度的差異，進而探討所呈現的變遷趨勢，供政府對農地集團化利用輔導之策略擬定，與營運主體設計契約化私人秩序時之參考。研究發現在市場越來越競爭之下，台灣各農地集團化利用階段之治理結構，不僅於規則中誘因的提供與安全措施的設置朝向由私人秩序賦予，更從集團之規劃召集、與集團成員行動的裁決等，都趨向依私人秩序訂定條款，由集團成員自我執行。故政府對農業經營的混合治理，在逐漸有由營運主體自發地根據公共秩序組織集團，擬定私人秩序自我執行運作的趨勢下，建議可增強公共秩序需對私人秩序治理結構之支持，並於公共秩序執行排除考量給予改善之機會，讓農地集團化利用更具競爭力與建立永續發展的空間。 / In Taiwan, after the first farmland reform, an integrated strategy has been adopted to pursue lower production cost and higher agricultural profit. This study defines four stages of integrated farmland use in Taiwan, i.e. Agricultural Production Special District, Agriculture Production Section and Production Group, Rice Production Special District, and Special Agriculture Enterprise District. Those stages of integrated farmland use have characteristics of hybrid governance which are established under laws i.e. public ordering and contracts among members of groups i.e. private ordering. The idea of hybrid governance, derived from the New Institutional Economics, is a micro-analytic point of view and can be employed to conduct a comparative study on governance structures. The governance structures, namely the rules and the enforcement mechanism in the public and private ordering of every stage, are analyzed and compared. How incentives and security measures are adopted in the rules and whether third party enforcement or self-enforcement is used in the enforcement mechanism of the public and private ordering are provided. After the analysis of hybrid governance structures, differences on their hierarchy and market orientation will be revealed. In Taiwan the governance structures of integrated farmland use has a tendency of market orientation and private ordering. The result can be considered by the government in deciding the policies for integrated farmland use, and can help the operating group to formulate private contracts for their own private ordering.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:50:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6014.pdf: 1562726 bytes, checksum: c16172d33471b81b9165e918d346c9f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-26 / In the electronics industry the companies owners of brands ( OEM ) are hiring outside manufacturing service providers ( EMS ) , and transfer to them major portions of their production. The EMSs have contributed to the OEMs in activities such as supply of components, engineering, manufacturing and distribution services. With the growth of this practice, the EMSs accumulate ever more capacity as providers of highly specialized commoditized electronic products, reducing costs and sharing risks across the electronic industry.The objective of this research was to scale the perception among EMSs, about the attributes of trust, mutuality and leadership, governance mechanisms as complementary to contract manufacturing in the consumer electronics industry considering the contributions of Ménard (2004) for the development of hybrid modes of governance. A field survey was carried out, being interviewed companies providing contract manufacturing headquartered in São Paulo. The analyzes show that allowed transactions providing electronic manufacturing are coordinated by complementary mechanisms to contracts through a governance model multiple hybrid formed by trust, mutuality and leadership. / Na indústria eletrônica as firmas proprietárias de marcas (OEM) estão contratando externamente de fornecedores de serviços de manufatura (EMS), parcelas importantes de sua produção. AS EMSs têm contribuindo com as OEMs em atividades como suprimento de componentes, engenharia, manufatura e serviços de distribuição. Com o crescimento dessa prática, as EMSs acumulam cada vez mais capacidade como provedoras altamente especializadas de produtos eletrônicos comoditizados, reduzindo custos e dividindo riscos em toda a indústria. O objetivo da presente pesquisa foi dimensionar a percepção existente entre EMSs, a respeito dos atributos de confiança, mutualismo e liderança, como mecanismos de governança complementares aos contratos de manufatura na indústria de bens eletrônicos de consumo considerando as contribuições de Ménard (2004) para o desenvolvimento dos modos de governança híbrida. Uma pesquisa de campo foi realizada, sendo entrevistadas empresas fornecedoras de manufatura contratada sediadas no Estado de São Paulo. As análises realizadas permitiram mostrar que as transações de fornecimento de manufatura eletrônica são coordenadas por mecanismos complementares aos contratos através de um modelo de governança híbrida múltipla formadas pela confiança, mutualismo e liderança.