Apologies for cross posting
Call for Papers:
Italian Academy of management: Bicentenary Conference
The Italian Academy of Management (Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale, AIDEA) is one of the
oldest academic societies worldwide. AIDEA was founded in Bologna on July 11, 1813 as the
Accademia dei Logismofili
On the occasion of its bicentenary, AIDEA is planning to organize a conference open to AIDEA
members and international scholars in accounting, management, organizational studies, banking and
finance. The conference will be held in Lecce on 19-21th September 2013. The historical city of Lecce
was selected because AIDEA aims to celebrate this exceptional event in an outstanding location. Lecce
is one of the most beautiful Italian cities; rich in Baroque architectural monuments, it is commonly
nicknamed as "The Florence of the South". The surrounding area (Salento) is a peaceful land full of
history and traditions whose strong points are its natural and architectural beauties, hospitality,
atmosphere and, last but not least, the sea and its coast
Dates
Starting date for Paper Submission..................................................................... 01 March 2013
Deadline for Paper Submission:..........................................................................
06 April 2013
Notification of Acceptance by: .............................................................................. 06 May 2013
Authors Registration Deadline (to be included in the Conference Program): ....... 30 May 2013
Final program release by: .................................................................................... 30 June 2013
Early Registration Deadline: ................................................................................... 10 July 2013
Final version of the paper has to be uploaded by:.......................................... 1 September 2013
Conference Dates:................................................................................. 19-21 September 2013
Theme: Public Management. Organizational and Inter-Institutional performance management in Public
Administration for sustainable growth (in collaboration with " International Journal of Public
Administration")
Performance management is still an evolving topic in both research and practice. The critical issues
related to the design and implementation of formal performance management systems are measuring
organizational results, producing information for more informed decision-making, and promoting
process improvement. The ambiguity of performance management in the public sector is still a
disputed topic, particularly when the evaluation of outcome performance measures and the
sustainability of community policies are considered. The traditional domain of performance
management is focused on an organizational sphere, implying that achieved results are primarily
assessed in relation to the effects produced by decision makers on their own institutions. Setting
outcome performance measures in such context often implies difficulties in framing the effects of the
administrative processes carried out by an agency on the wider system (i.e., on public service users,
the community, and the territory). This phenomenon has been seen as a major cause of myopia in
measuring and managing performance on an organizational level. When an inter-institutional
systems perspective is adopted, assessing performance sustainability requires a focus on the single
organizations results and on how such results contribute to the wider systems performance. Inside
such a wider system, each organization can build or share a given endowment of strategic resources.
Both the aggregate performance of a territory and the specific performance of each organization
inside it are significantly affected by the accumulation and depletion processes of social capital and
other strategic resources (e.g. infrastructures, image). This perspective implies that performance is
assessed in relation to the effects produced by decision makers on the region or territory to which
their organization belongs. In such context, the inter-institutional systems performance does not
result from a mere sum of the performance levels produced by each single institution. It is, rather, the
effect of the net of relationships and synergies between the different institutions linked each other.
Therefore, this call for proposals focuses on the following research questions: How can performance
management systems allow public sector institutions support the design and implementation of
sustainable policies in the long-run and how can the design and implementation of performance
management systems contribute to this new frontier of knowledge and practice in the public sector
in order to foster sustainable growth
more at:
http://www.aidea2013.it/default.php?trackname=public-management
I look forward to meeting you at the AIDEA conference...
best,
Emanuele Vendramini