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Regional accrediting agencies and state governments are requiring colleges to evaluate the effectiveness of their institutions. In North Carolina the General Assembly mandated the state Board for Community Colleges to develop a list of critical success factors that measure the effectiveness of the North Carolina system. The purpose of this study was to assess that System's critical success factors as they relate to individual community colleges. This study determined which critical success factors were important and which ones were feasible to use by individual colleges in their institutional effectiveness plans. A Critical Success Factor Questionnaire was used to survey presidents and institutional effectiveness officers (IEOs) of each of the 58 community colleges. Survey data were analyzed using means, standard deviations, Spearman's rank correlation coefficients, and Kendall's coefficient of concordance. ; Ed. D.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be one of the most important forces of economic growth and globalization. Many ASEAN economies have only a small domestic market; they are heavily reliant on international trade and FDI. Recent studies on cross-border investment indicate the importance of domestic economic performance and institutional effectiveness (including government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law and property rights protection) in attracting FDI. The result from a cross-national empirical analysis, in this study, also confirms the significant impact of macroeconomic performance and institutional factors on FDI flows into developing countries. In this paper, it is argued that, with the exception of Singapore, most ASEAN countries are afflicted with relatively poor institutions for good governance, with low government effectiveness, and poor regulatory quality and rule of law. This relatively poor institutional quality may exacerbate the effects of external threats. As higher economic growth and better economic integration in other regions may divert FDI flows into ASEAN countries, their appropriate response is to improve institutional quality so that the share of FDI will increase in the total FDI inflows. Improving the institutional environment among ASEAN member countries should, therefore, be an important goal of ASEAN economic integration. (Asian Aff/GIGA)

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Background of Study -- 1.2 The Political Economy of Social Enterprise Development -- 1.2.1 The Third Sector -- 1.2.2 The Shift from NGO to Social Enterprise -- 1.3 Aim of Research -- 1.3.1 The Research Question -- 1.3.2 Theoretical Background -- 1.3.2.1 Resource Dependency in State-WISE Relationships -- 1.3.3 WISE as the Subject of Study -- 1.3.4 Identifying WISEs in China -- 1.4 Research Design and Methodology -- 1.4.1 Methodology and Data Collection -- 1.4.2 Sample Selection -- 1.4.3 Qualitative Data Analysis -- 1.5 Significance of this Study -- 1.5.1 New Insights into Cross-Sector Development -- 1.5.2 Bridging Two Strands of Literature -- 1.5.3 Understanding Social Welfare Reform in China -- 1.5.4 The Advantage of the Grounded Approach -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: A Theoretical Review -- Introduction -- 2.1 Conceptualising Social Enterprises in Literature -- 2.1.1 Defining Social Enterprises in a Global Context -- 2.1.1.1 Social Enterprise as Efficient Social Service Provider -- 2.1.1.2 Social Enterprise as a Hybrid Organisation -- 2.1.1.3 Social Enterprises and Network Governance -- 2.1.2 Social Enterprises and the Third Sector -- 2.1.3 Models of Social Enterprise -- 2.1.3.1 Common Typologies -- 2.1.3.2 The Tri-Sector Model -- 2.1.4 Three Major Themes in Social Enterprise Research -- 2.1.4.1 Social Value and Mission -- 2.1.4.2 Hybrid Institutions and the Cross-Sector Partnership Paradigm -- 2.1.4.2.1 Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship -- 2.2 Assessing Institutional Effectiveness -- 2.2.1 Theories on Effectiveness -- 2.2.1.1 The Early Organisational Theories -- 2.2.1.2 Diversity in Measurement Standards -- 2.2.2 Debates over Effectiveness of Social Enterprises.

"Wang offers an empirically based exploration into Work-Integration Social Enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China. Focusing on the political economy of social enterprise development in China, Wang examines the nature of the relationship between the state and social enterprises and the implications of such relationships for their institutional effectiveness. She adopts a bottom-up approach that investigates indigenous practices embedded within the local political context. A common ground has been established internationally that the social enterprise model provides new ways of social service delivery that could potentially change and restructure the social welfare economy. However, the development path differs across social contexts, especially in an authoritarian country like China. This study provides insights into China's efforts to develop its social welfare sector and reinvigorate customary ideas about how public services could be better offered given the country's political economy. This book will be of great interest both to scholars of China's political economy, and to those with an interest in the development of the social enterprise sector looking to see how this works in a Chinese context"--

Disaster risk events always have impacts on disaster losses in terms of the sustainability. The phenomena of natural hazards continue to threaten the social and economic livelihoods of the community, ─ while policies and stipulated regulations for mitigating disaster risks reduction (DRR) endlessly become polemics both in national and local government institutions. The study was conducted to address public perceptions on the effectiveness of Indonesia's Disaster Management Authorities in managing DRR across the archipelago. Relying on the coproduction principle, the author conducted a case-study through in-depth interviews and literature studies to gain public insights, including related encountered situations ─ revealing perceptions on the track-records of the performance of disaster management authorities in a SWOT analysis. The results indicated that both national and local disaster management authorities respectively are less effective due to the lack of effective communication, coordination, collaboration, and synchronization in managing DRR. Moreover, the scarcity of existing potential leaderships for decision makings through vertical and horizontal negotiations, ─ and lack of persuasive approaches for communities' engagement at all risk cycles. The study highlighted the importance of reforming the status of national disaster management authority ─ thus, it is more powerful in functioning to command, monitor, and control the lower disaster risk institutions and be able to synergize implemented policies with other government institutions. The study also suggested increasing coproduction through public-private partnerships and philanthropies to upgrade innovations, education and training, also psychological healings as a recovery process for greater sustainable development.

A qualitative case study of a two-year institution of higher education which had recently completed a successful institutional effectiveness initiative explored the factors that faculty and administrators believe encourage the support of institutional effectiveness initiatives and how certain factors encourage faculty and administrative support for institutional effectiveness activities that lead to their success. Participants included faculty and administrators at institutions of higher education and experts in the field of institutional effectiveness. There were four basic findings of the study. First, leaders of institutional effectiveness initiatives should ensure that the motivation of the topic of a project is perceived to be internal by the entire campus community. Second, participation in the initiative is optional. Third, communication and collaboration are benefits of institutional effectiveness initiatives. Finally, the value of accreditation is built into the culture of the institution. Leaders of institutional effectiveness initiatives can benefit from the findings of the current study and support the success of the initiatives to create lasting impacts on quality at institutions of higher education.

This book presents a practical, effective, and systematic approach to the measurement, assessment, and sensemaking of institutional performance. Included are strategies to measure and assess the performance of Curriculum, Learning, Instruction, Support Services, and Program Feasibility as well as a meaningful Environmental Scanning method.