Projects / Programmes
Upravljanje omrežij javnega in zasebnega sektorja (Slovene)
January 1, 2009
- December 31, 2013
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.04.00 |
Social sciences |
Administrative and organisational sciences |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| 5.04 |
Social Sciences |
Sociology |
Researchers (6)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
20010 |
PhD Nina Bandelj |
Administrative and organisational sciences |
Researcher |
2009 - 2013 |
0 |
| 2. |
08848 |
PhD Hajdeja Iglič |
Sociology |
Head |
2009 - 2013 |
0 |
| 3. |
25829 |
PhD Helena Kovačič |
Administrative and organisational sciences |
Researcher |
2009 - 2013 |
0 |
| 4. |
01103 |
PhD Andrej Rus |
Sociology |
Researcher |
2009 - 2013 |
1 |
| 5. |
00388 |
PhD Veljko Rus |
Sociology |
Researcher |
2009 - 2013 |
35 |
| 6. |
32307 |
Kim Turk Dermastia |
|
Technical associate |
2009 - 2011 |
0 |
Organisations (1)
Significance for science
Due to our interdisciplinary character, the programme makes a scientific contribution in several fields including organizational theory and economic sociology, political sociology, and legal theory and practice. 1 Organization Theory and Economic Sociology This research program contributes significantly to organizational and economic sociology by building on the idea of embeddedness and improving our understanding of complex organizations. It makes serious contributions in the following specific areas: - social network theory by exploring causal relationship between network properties and performance; - network governance by looking at a variety of networks, their structural features and performance; - organizational learning by identifying structural factors promoting knowledge transfer and learning; - public management and management of change in public sector organizations by identifying structural factors leading to the improvements in both areas. Political Sociology There is a significant contribution to a broad area of political sociology by conducting empirical studies and making advances in specific fields of: - political participation and issue based networks; - social capital theory and generators of trust and networks; - the third way and the problem of governance; - the co-production of goods and services; - knowledge society and key factors of learning and knowledge transfer. Legal theory and practice The research program contributes to the legal theory and practice by tracking the decisions of Administrative court, by evaluating the level at which human and other rights are upheld in judicial reviews and by analyzing the new challenges to the constitutional division of powers and developing standards for new institutional balance. Specific contributions will be made to the following areas: - constitutional law and division of powers; - administrative law; - human rights; - independence of judiciary and court management.
Significance for the country
Network based governance is one of the most important challenges of modern societies, in which the complex nature of development stems not so much from the technical requirements but from the multiplicity of actors involved in numerous interaction at different levels and sectors of the social systems. Coordination of multiple actors with divergent interests into more or less coherent action frameworks without resorting to power of a central command while avoiding the chaos is a key challenge that is included in the notion of network governance. For illustrative purposes we briefly review specific areas where our research on network governance could be applied: Science and technology. One contribution of our findings apply to the field of knowledge transfer from universities to industry. Slovenia and the EU share a similar problem of knowledge transfer from academia to industry. This is a typical situation of a network that needs a new governance approach. Industry and science have always had big differences in how work is planned and organized. Attempts to force one organizational solution upon all the actors have failed miserably. This is why the EU has moved toward encouraging and financing networks within which participants from industry or academia can maintain their own autonomy and while coordinating themselves on joint outputs. Healtcare. The second area of application could be Slovenian healthcare system. With privatization of 25% of Slovenian healthcare system there is an obvious need for better governance of the network of private and public providers of the public health service. One of the key governance challenges is service fragmentation. The key question of service integration requires new approaches due to the hybrid nature of provider network. There is an added dimension of co-production with the citizens and patients. Higher education.The third area of application addresses the current dilemmas in Slovenian higher education system. In the past 4 years Slovenian educational sector saw the entry of several private schools in the area of higher education. The key governance challenge is how to regulate privatization to prevent resource and service fragmentation. Our research on network governance would be directly applicable to the network of public and private providers. Judiciary.The key governance challenge is how to increase performance of the courts without direct interference from the executive branch. Public-private partnership. We have observed that in spite of favorable regulatory environment public private partnerships have not emerged in to any significant degree in slovenia. We believe that this is due to complexity of arrangements and uncertainty regarding risk assessment. Experience shows that it is very difficult to get a PPP project right so there needs to be a strong element of trust and cooperation. PPPs therefore can not rely only on extensive contracts and intensive monitoring but require instead flexible and mutually agreed arrangements for steering joint projects, i.e. network governance. Local development. Local economies lack resources so they depend on the voluntary coordination of resources. Network governance provides actors with the framework that encourages cooperation and informal regulation. All these examples point to the high applicability of network governance approach and a strong demand for its use in the steering of complex systems. This not only leads to improvements in resource allocation and management of hybrid networks but also to increased competitiveness of the economy as a whole.
Most important scientific results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
