Management Analysis of New Business Models of the State with Particular Reference to Government Procurement

日本的公共部门似乎没有正确回应当今的要求，即高效而廉价地为国家提供高质量的服务。相比之下，包括英国在内的一些西方国家借鉴了物有所值、私人融资倡议(PFI)和公私合作伙伴关系(PPP)的思想，似乎采用了一种新的国家创业模式，在这种模式下，相当大一部分公共部门有责任酌情与私营部门竞争。因此，许多公共服务的质量和效率似乎一直在提高。此外，证据表明，我们今天正在见证一种新的国家商业模式的诞生，从监管模式演变为催化模式。考虑到这些前提，并在21世纪寻找新的国家替代模式，我在这项研究期间在几个先进和发展中国家进行了广泛的实地调查，特别是对政府采购感兴趣。已应用的理论框架借鉴了最新的网络理论，该理论侧重于不同的经济机构如何通过从根本上重新布线其信息渠道来跨越组织边界进行合作，并确实获得其他方式无法获得的实质性收益。虽然这项研究的理论和实践调查仍在进行中，但已产生了促进新政策制定的发现和见解，并表明进一步的研究贯穿公共政策和管理研究。然而，为了发挥研究潜力，必须进行更有针对性和更详细的研究，考虑到现实世界问题在特定背景下的动态特性。

The Japanese public sector does not appear to be correctly responding to the present-day requirements for providing the nation with high-quality services efficiently and inexpensively. In contrast, drawing on the ideas of value for money, private finance initiatives (PFIs), and public private partnerships (PPPs), some Western countries including the United Kingdom appear to have adopted a new entrepreneurial model of the state, in which substantial parts of the public sector are held responsible for becoming competitive with the private sector as appropriate. Consequently, the quality and efficiency of many Public services appear to have been improving. Evidence suggests, moreover, that we are witnessing today the birth of a new business model of the state, evolving from a regulatory to catalytic one.With these premises in mind and in search of new alternative models of the state in the twenty-first century, I have conducted extensive fieldwork in several advanced and developing countries during the course of this research with specific interest in government procurement. A theoretical framework that has been applied draws on latest network theory that focuses on how different economic agencies embedded in local situations serving different people and markets can collaborate across organizational boundaries by radically rewiring their information conduits and do obtain substantial gains that cannot otherwise accrue. Although still in the making the theoretical and practical inquiries of this study have produced findings and insights that stimulate new policy making and indicate further research crosscutting public policy and management studies. To fulfill research potential, however, it is imperative that more focused and detailed research be undertaken, taking into account the dynamic properties of real-world problems in specific contexts.