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This paper presents a dramaturgical approach to understanding the entrepreneur-investor charismatic relationship in the context of the entrepreneur's business plan presentation to outside investors. This approach highlights how entrepreneurs can behave in the presence of investors and how impression management tools can be utilized to develop a successful business plan presentation. Business plan presentations by winners of the 2008 Moot Corp Competition are used to illustrate the charismatic relationship and the impression management techniques that can be used by entrepreneurs in their efforts to project charisma.

This article addresses three questions: (1) How has entrepreneurial outcome been measured? (2) How can these measurements be categorized? (3) What measures are most appropriate and when? It provides an inventory of the measures that have been used, and presents two frameworks through which to understand how they can be organized. The first framework organizes the various measures along the dimensions of time and performance. The second borrows the lifecycle approach to defining different outcomes as transition points between the stages in the lifecycle. Each framework is discussed in terms of its relevance to entrepreneurship researchers and policy makers.

This study examines public–private partnerships (PPPs) in terms of providing public value and analyzes the structuring of PPP contractual agreements to achieve public values of accountability, transparency, responsibility, responsiveness, and quality. We focus on transportation PPP projects utilizing case studies of the I-495 and I-95 PPP projects in northern Virginia. Review of contractual documents governing the PPPs and analysis of supplemental data related to PPP outcomes is conducted. We examine the creation and maintenance of public value through the process and performance elements of the contractual agreement. Study findings provide insight into how the roles, relationships, and interactions of the public and private partners, reflected in process and performance elements, are incorporated into agreements to ensure public value.

Emergency management and resilience are key concepts and functions that are vital for mitigating risks of hazards and reducing the impacts of disasters. Public sector leaders within the emergency management and resilience domains play a critical role in leading the organization and its staff and partners in achieving these goals of risk mitigation and disaster impact reduction. This research investigates the skills and competencies that emergency management and resilience leaders need to be successful in collaborations to deal with emergencies and disasters today and in a post-COVID world. The study will employ a postpositivist case study design using interviews as an instrument to gain deep understanding of the important skillset and competencies identified by emergency management and resilience professionals. The study samples a target population of emergency management leaders and resilience professionals from the Mid-Atlantic region through snowball sampling. The sample will include emergency management and resilience professionals at the director or assistant director level (or equivalent), representing state, regional, and local government agencies and related functions in the private and nonprofit sectors. The study will develop understanding, based on the practices of emergency management and resilience professionals, of the critical skills and competencies needed to be effective in mitigating, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters. Results of the research will provide insights for leadership development in these two domains. ; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/gradposters2021_business/1015/thumbnail.jpg

This chapter evaluates the 12 countries' capital management practices according to the systematic public capital management and budgeting process described in Chapter 1. The chapter characterizes and classifies the management practices of the twelve countries based on the authors' evaluation using the case study descriptions. The authors offer some initial observations based on comparisons across the case study countries and analysis of relationships between capital management and budgeting practices and political, economic, and public sector variables. The chapter proposes a tentative theory of public investment behavior and offers five propositions regarding the factors driving different practices across the case study countries and the consequences of a systematic capital management and budgeting process.

Accountability is a pivotal concern of applied social science. This article asserts that in many situations a full explanation of the sources of accountability requires the application of concepts from sociology and management science, in addition to those from the market-based approaches inspired by economics. The article describes the market-based approach to accountability exemplified by agency theory, applies it to school reform and derives several predictions about the likely success of market-based approaches to school reform, and documents the lack of evidence supporting the contention that programs for school choice will markedly improve teacher work effort and performance (as measured by student test scores). The social actor approach, rooted in sociological and management theories, is introduced and used to describe the pressures and norms operating in the public schools that foster accountability even in the absence of competition between schools for students. The article concludes with some implications for practice and research on public sector accountability.

This research note compares the effect on willingness to raise taxes and government fees of three common approaches to public consultation: (a) a telephone survey with no information or discussion, (b) a focus group with discussion but no information relating need to the proposed tax or fee, and (c) a focus group with discussion and such information. Our purpose is twofold: (a) illustrate the contribution of pertinent information to public acceptance of tax or fee increases, and (b) suggest a more comprehensive and informative approach to consultation with the public. We do so using the examples of raising the gas tax and vehicle registration fees. The results show that the combination of information and discussion produces the greatest level of support for both revenue enhancing options. Implications for presenting proposals to raise taxes and fees are discussed.

Privatization has increasingly become a policy option for government agencies struggling to meet rising demands for services but with fewer resources. In the transportation arena, many state departments of transportation (DOTs) have privatized by outsourcing highway functions to the private sector. But the outsourcing of technical and expert services such as those related to the design and construction of highway infrastructure may result in a smaller or less knowledgeable DOT workforce that is unable to perform the necessary contract management to ensure the quality of the work done by contractors. We posit an outsourcing process in which DOTs respond to the combination of increased demand for highway services and growing workforce constraints by contracting out much of the work formerly performed by in-house personnel. This, in turn, can produce perceptions of quality problems regarding the outsourced work and a subsequent expansion of the workforce. We examine the extent to which different highway-related tasks are being outsourced, the effect of workforce and employment factors on outsourcing, the perceptions of highway officials regarding the impact of outsourcing on cost-effectiveness and the service quality of the outsourced work, and subsequent employment levels.

The current crisis in highway finance in the United States is mostly driven by greater vehicle fuel efficiency, substantial rises in construction costs and automobile use, and fixed per gallon fuel tax rates that do not increase with inflation. These factors give rise to questions about the adequacy of the gasoline tax (or gas tax) structure to generate sufficient revenue. We argue that the public will be more willing to increase the gas tax if it is restructured to be directly connected to measures of need and is adjusted upward in small, regular increments. We examine how state variable-rate fuel taxes, by incrementally adjusting the gas tax rate on a regular basis, would affect gas tax revenues. This is done by simulating gas tax revenues given different adjustment formulas for the gas tax rate (based on changes in construction costs, general inflation, and improvements in fuel efficiency), and comparing gas tax revenues to determine revenue-generating capacity of variable-rate approaches.

Introduction: the challenges of communicating about climate change in the modern era / Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf and Burton St. John III -- Part 1. Communicating with the public -- Asking questions for adaptation: using public and stakeholder surveys as a tool within coastal climate change policy processes / Karen L. Akerlof, Kristin Timm, Syma A. Ebbin, Jill M. Gambill, Phyllis M. Grifman, Tancred Miller, and Susanne Moser -- Engaging residents in policy and planning for sea level rise: application of the action-oriented stakeholder engagement for a resilient tomorrow (ASERT) framework / Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, J. Gail Nicula, Daniel P. Richards, Ogechukwu Agim, Michelle Covi, and Khairul A. Anuar -- Communicating within immersion and presence: the use of 360-degree-video to make climate change touchable / Andreas Hebbel-Seeger, Christian Rudeloff, Riccardo Wagner, and Sebastian Pranz -- Part 2. Communicating for stakeholder engagement -- Communicating and co-producing information with stakeholders: examples of participatory mapping approaches related to sea level rise risks and impacts / Pragati Rawat, Khairul A. Anuar, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Jon Derek Loftis, and Ren-Neasha Blake -- Social media and climate change dialogue: a review of the research and guidance for science communicators / Brooke Fisher Liu and Jiyoun Kim -- Key elements of user preferences for flood alerts and implications for the design and development of flood alert or warning systems / Donta Council, Tihara Richardson, and Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf -- Part 3. Organizational, institutional, risk and disaster communication -- The standing rock water protests against Dakota Access Pipeline: addressing environmental degradation through indigenous political ecology as the "trickster science" / Danielle Quichocho and Burton St. John III -- Risk communication in the tourism industry / Lindsay E. Usher and Ashley Schroeder -- Risk management and biases in how drivers respond to nuisance flooding / Saige Hill, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Burton St. John III, Pragati Rawat, and Carol Considine -- Rethinking disaster communication ecology: exploring context in isolated communities in the Philippines / Dennis John F. Sumaylo and Marianne D. Sison -- Part 4. Conclusion -- Toward accessible messaging and effective climate change communication / Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf and Burton St. John III