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Big data is everywhere. In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis on big data, business analytics, and "smart" living and work environments. Though these conversations are predominantly practice driven, organizations are exploring how large-volume data can usefully be deployed to create and capture value for individuals, businesses, communities, and governments (McKinsey Global Institute, 2011). Whether it is machine learning and web analytics to predict individual action, consumer choice, search behavior, traffic patterns, or disease outbreaks, big data is fast becoming a tool that not only analyzes patterns, but can also provide the predictive likelihood of an event.

Governments around the world, but especially in Europe, have increasingly used private sector involvement in developing, financing and providing public health infrastructure and service delivery through public–private partnerships (PPPs). Reasons for this uptake are manifold ranging from rising expenditures for refurbishing, maintaining and operating public assets, and increasing constraints on government budgets stifle, seeking innovation through private sector acumen and aiming for better risk management. Although PPPs have attracted practitioner and academic interest over the last two decades, there has been no attempt to integrate the general and health management literature to provide a holistic view of PPPs in healthcare delivery. This study analyzes over 1400 publications from a wide range of disciplines over a 20-year time period. We find that despite the scale and significance of the phenomenon, there is relatively limited conceptualization and in-depth empirical investigation. Based on bibliographic and content analyses, we synthesize formerly dispersed research perspectives into a comprehensive multi-dimensional framework of public-private partnerships. In so doing, we provide new directions for further research and practice.

Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Inclusion and innovation : a call to action / Gerard George, Ted Baker, Paul Tracey and Havovi Joshi -- Part II: Social innovation in practice -- 2. A silent evolution : innovative and inclusive narratives on sustainability / Ana Cristina Campos Marques -- 3. Climate change and social innovation / Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg -- 4. Problem, person, and pathway : a framework for social innovators / Julie Battilana, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis and Christian Seelos -- 5. Inclusion and innovation in healthcare / Anita M McGahan -- 6. How do we know when social innovation works? A review and contingency model of social impact assessment / Greg Molecke and Anne-Claire Pache -- Part III: Community and place -- 7. Indigenous social innovation : what is distinctive? and a research agenda / Ana María Peredo, Murdith McLean, Crystal Tremblay -- 8. Urban innovation : at the nexus of urban policy and entrepreneurship / Jeffrey A. Robinson, Amol Joshi, Lutisha Vickerie-Dearman and Todd Inouye -- 9. Community social innovation : taking a long view on community enterprise / Neil Stott, Michelle Fava and Natalie Slawinski -- 10. Collective social innovation : leveraging custodianship, tradition and place on fogo island / M. Tina Dacin and Peter A. Dacin -- Part IV: Systems, institutions, and infrastructure -- 11. Coordinating infrastructure changes to meet retiring baby boomers' needs / David Souder -- 12. Sustainable technology-enabled innovations for ageing-in-place : the Singapore example / Hwee-Pink Tan and Hwee-Xian Tan -- 13. How firms bring social innovation and efficiency to the global effort to recover from disasters / Luis Ballesteros -- 14. The lack of public goods in emergent economies : a call for research and a case study of innovative organisational designs / Nuno Gil -- 15. Scaling up of social innovations : an institutional framework / Silvia Dorado and Pablo Fernández -- 16. Social innovation as institutional work / Warren Nilsson -- 17. Challenges for global supply chains and opportunities for social innovation / Yong H. Kim and Gerald F. Davis -- Part V: Individuals, organizations and organizing -- 18. Emotions as the glue, the fuel and the rust of social innovation / Charlene Zietsma and Madeline Toubiana -- 19. Income inequality : consequences and implications for social innovation / Xiang Zhou and Jason D. Shaw -- 20. Frugal innovation and social innovation : linked paths to achieving inclusion sustainably / Yasser Bhatti and Jaideep Prabhu -- 21. Climate change and entrepreneurship / Elizabeth Embry, Jessica Jones and Jeff York -- 22. A framework for sustaining hybridity in social enterprises : combining differentiating and integrating / Marya Besharov, Wendy Smith and Tiffany Darabi -- 23. Organizing for global change / Yves Plourde -- Part VI : Networks and social change -- 24. Collaborative governance / Ann Florini -- 25. Inclusive innovation through alliance networks / Arno Kourula -- 26. Social entrepreneurs as network orchestrators : a framework and research agenda on networks and leadership in the context of social innovation / Christian Busch and Harry Barkema -- 27. Empowerment, social innovation and social change / Helen M Haugh and Maggie O'Carroll -- Index.

Trust in business is improving from its nadir in 2009, but still remains dishearteningly low. Recent surveys report that only one in four members of the general public trusts business leaders to correct issues, and only one in five trusts them to tell the truth and make ethical and moral decisions. The 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer, a 27-country survey with more than 33,000 respondents, finds that overall trust declined across countries and sectors, with CEOs ranking second lowest at 43% and government officials the lowest at 36% as credible spokespeople to win public trust (Edelman Berland, 2014). This public distrust is manifest, for example, in record fines imposed by the U.S. Department of Justice of $16 billion on Bank of America to settle allegations that it knowingly sold toxic mortgages to investors. Other services and product companies also face record fines for mis-selling products (such as payment protection insurance), or for using contaminated ingredients in products (such as melamine-adulterated milk powder or horse meat in beef burgers) to generate marginally higher economic returns. Such high-profile corporate misconduct has called into question the integrity of business and its leaders. The Occupy Movement against social and economic inequality provides an example of a mass protest, but there have been other more targeted campaigns directed toward such issues as food labeling, poor labor practices, the living wage, executive pay among several others. This breakdown in trust not only undermines enduring connections with employees, customers, suppliers, and society in general, it also impedes the ability of business to engage in the risk-taking needed to innovate and contribute to social and economic development.

Rural electrification (RE) has gained prominence over the past two decades as an effective means for improving living conditions. This growth has largely been driven by socio-economic and political imperatives to improve rural livelihood and by technological innovation. Based on a content analysis of 232 scholarly articles, the literature is categorized into four focal lenses: technology, institutional, viability and user-centric. We find that the first two dominate the RE debate. The viability lens has been used less frequently, whilst the user-centric lens began to engage scholars as late as 2007. We provide an overview of the technological, institutional and viability lenses, and elaborate upon the user-centric lens in greater detail. For energy policy and practice, we combine the four lenses to develop a business model framework that policy makers, practitioners and investors could use to assess RE projects or to design future rural electrification strategies.

Cover title: The arguments submitted to the Senate Committee on Railroads of the Wisconsin Legislature opposing the reduction of the maximum legal fare / by William A. Gardner, Samuel A. Lynde, George G. Tunell. ; Mode of access: Internet.