Table Of ContentSystem Dynamics for Performance Management
& Governance 4
Carmine Bianchi
Luis F. Luna-Reyes
Eliot Rich Editors
Enabling
Collaborative
Governance through
Systems Modeling
Methods
Public Policy Design and
Implementation
System Dynamics for Performance Management
& Governance
Volume 4
Series Editor
Carmine Bianchi, Department of Political Sciences, CED4-System
Dynamics Group, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13452
Scientific Committee for System Dynamics for Performance
Management & Governance
Luca Anselmi University of Pisa, Italy—Professor of Public Administration
David Birdsell Baruch College/CUNY, USA—Dean, School of Public Affairs
Elio Borgonovi Bocconi University, Milan, Italy—Professor of Economics and
Management of Public Administration
Tony Bovaird University of Birmingham, UK—Professor of Public Management
and Policy
Dario Cavenago Bicocca University, Milan, Italy—Professor of Public Management
Lino Cinquini Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy—Professor of Business
Administration
Paal I. Davidsen University of Bergen, Norway—Professor of System Dynamics,
Chair of the System Dynamics Group
John Hallighan University of Canberra, Australia—Emeritus Professor of Public
Administration and Governance
David Lane Henley Business School, UK—Professor of Informatics
Manuel London State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA—Distinguished
Professor of Management
Luciano Marchi University of Pisa, Italy—Professor of Planning & Control Systems
Marco Meneguzzo Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano—Switzerland;
University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy—Professor of Public Management
Riccardo Mussari University of Siena, Italy—Professor of Public Management
Guy Peters University of Pittsburgh, USA—Maurice Falk Professor, Department
of Political Science
Angelo Riccaboni University of Siena, Italy—Professor of Planning &
Control Systems
William C. Rivenbark University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA—MPA
Program Director, School of Government
Etienne Rouwette Nijmegen School of Management, The Netherlands—Associate
Professor of Research Methodology and System Dynamics
Salvatore Rotella Riverside College, California, USA—Chancellor Emeritus and
Professor of Political Science
Khalid Saeed Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA—Professor of System
Dynamics
Markus Schwaninger University of St Gallen, Switzerland—Professor of
Management
Carlo Sorci University of Palermo, Italy—Professor of Business Management
Jürgen Strohhecker Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany—
Professor for Business Administration, Operations and Cost Management
Jarmo Vakkuri University of Tampere, Finland—Professor of Local Government
Accounting & Finance
Wouter Van Dooren University of Antwerp, Belgium—Associate Professor of
Public Management
David Wheat University of Bergen, Norway—Professor in System Dynamics
Carmine Bianchi • Luis F. Luna-Reyes
Eliot Rich
Editors
Enabling Collaborative
Governance through Systems
Modeling Methods
Public Policy Design and Implementation
Editors
Carmine Bianchi Luis F. Luna-Reyes
Department of Political Sciences Department of Public Administration
CED4 – System Dynamics Group & Policy
University of Palermo University at Albany, SUNY
Palermo, Italy Albany, NY, USA
Eliot Rich
Department of IS & Business Analytics
University at Albany, SUNY
Albany, NY, USA
ISSN 2367-0940 ISSN 2367-0959 (electronic)
System Dynamics for Performance Management & Governance
ISBN 978-3-030-42969-0 ISBN 978-3-030-42970-6 (eBook)
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Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
(by John M. Bryson)
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
(by Carmine Bianchi, Luis F. Luna-Reyes, and Eliot Rich)
Part I Systems Approaches to Collaborative Governance
Networks and Policy Implementation
1 Applying Governing Networks and Multilevel Scales
to Address Wicked Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Henrik P. Minassians and Ravi K. Roy
2 Participative Governance of the Swiss Construction
Material Industry: Transitioning Business Models
and Public Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Daniel Kliem and Alexander Scheidegger
3 Leveraging Collaborative Governance: How Co-production
Contributes to Outcomes and Public Value in a Small Town . . . . . . . 47
Vincenzo Vignieri
4 The Conceptual Dynamic Model of Rural Development
Towards Sustainable Self- Sufficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Athor Subroto and Vanda Ningrum
5 Policy Implementation: A Review of Selected Literature . . . . . . . . . . 91
Joshua Mugambwa, Isaac Nkote Nabeta, Mohamed Ngoma,
Nichodemus Rudaheranwa, Will Kaberuka, and John C. Munene
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Part II Systems Methods to Enable Collaborative Planning
and Decision Making
6 A Model-Based Governance and Planning Tool
for HIV/AIDS Services in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Gary Hirsch and James Rice
7 Collaboration Governance and System Dynamics
Modelling: What Do Clients Want? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Rodney J. Scott and Robert Y. Cavana
8 M ulti-Criteria Policy Options Analysis of the Swedish
Environmental Goals Using Indexed Causal Loop
Diagram Modelling Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Hördur V. Haraldsson
9 P articipatory Multicriteria Evaluation of Metropolitan
Transportation Planning System Scenarios: Navigating
Trade-Offs for Collaborative Design
of Sustainable Communities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Asim Zia
Part III Collaborative Governance and Dynamic
Performance Management
10 P atronage and the Public Service: A Dynamic
Performance Governance Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
B. Guy Peters and Carmine Bianchi
11 B lending Collaborative Governance and Dynamic
Performance Management to Foster Policy Coordination
in Renewable Energy Supply Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Milton M. Herrera, Federico Cosenz, and Isaac Dyner
12 Applying Dynamic Performance Management to Public
Emergency Management: An Analysis of the
Wenchuan Earthquake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Linlin Wang, Enzo Bivona, Haiyan Yan, and Jiayin Qi
13 Institutional Logics Analysis for Enabling Collaborative
DPM Processes: Universities’ Third Mission
Performance as an Illustrative Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Francesca Ricciardi, Paola De Bernardi, Canio Forliano,
and Mattia Franco
14 Fostering Collaborative Governance in Chronic
Disease Management Programs: A Dynamic
Performance Management Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Enzo Bivona and Guido Noto
Contents vii
15 Applying Dynamic Performance Management
to Foster Collaborative Governance in Higher Education:
A Conceptual Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Zhenping Zhang, Enzo Bivona, Jiayin Qi, and Haiyan Yan
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Foreword
(by John M. Bryson)
Humans have a rather astonishing array of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral
limitations. Given all of that, it is somewhat surprising that we have emerged as the
dominant species on the planet. It must mean that most of the competition was and
is relatively weak. After all, we are vastly outnumbered by bacteria, viruses, crusta-
ceans, insects, fish, birds, and much else. Nonetheless, based on our ability to think,
make and use tools, cooperate, and procreate, we have been able to shape our envi-
ronments in ways that enabled “victory,” at least for a large fraction of (the now-
quite- numerous) us. For example, noted cognitive scientist, linguist, and popular
science author Steven Pinker argues in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature
(2011) that violence in human societies is generally down from previous times. In
addition, Pinker in his book Enlightenment Now (2018) and Nobel Prize-winning
economist Angus Deaton in The Great Escape (2015) argue that the available data
indicate a general improvement of the human condition over recent history.
The victories, however, are never complete and never permanent. Governance
regimes and vital institutions can be fragile; power can be abused; civic engagement
can be badly skewed and otherwise problematic; knowledge, theory, and analysis
can be incomplete or just plain wrong; learning may be incomplete, superstitious, or
absent; public values such as liberty, justice, equity, security, and democracy can be
undermined. Our cognitive, emotional, and behavioral capacities; inclinations to
cooperate; and institutions face some severe challenges, including the fact that we
humans in some circumstances can be our own worst enemies. The causes and con-
sequences of climate change, serious threats to global security, severe inequalities,
terrible human rights violations, instabilities in the Middle East, and other issues
addressed in this book are just some of the many challenges.
J. M. Bryson
McKnight Presidential Professor of Planning and Public Affairs,
Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN, USA
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x Foreword
To address these and other challenges we need good ideas (policies, programs,
etc.) worth implementing that can be implemented, along with coalitions of support
large enough and strong enough to adopt the ideas and protect them during imple-
mentation. More broadly, we need to have worthy aspirations (vision, mission, val-
ues, principles, goals) that can be achieved via approaches (governance arrangements,
policies, strategies) that are supported by the capabilities (institutional, political,
social, economic, organizational, administrative, technological, financial, analytic,
engagement-oriented, etc.) necessary to achieve them.
Unfortunately, the big challenges we humans face are all embedded in large,
complex—or at the very least, quite complicated—systems. So right off the bat our
cognitive, emotional, and behavioral limitations cause mischief absent good institu-
tions built around a sound, pragmatic understanding of the problem at hand and
approaches to managing the challenges effectively. We individuals can only keep a
few pieces of information in short-term consciousness at a time—thus the informa-
tional content of most systems totally outstrips any individual’s capacity to keep it
in mind. We need some sort of external representation and memory to keep track of
it all, let alone analyze it. The challenge is much worse when you take feedback
effects into account. In short, we humans are badly disabled when it comes to han-
dling dynamic situations involving lots of inter-related elements, stakeholders, and
feedback effects. Add in the cumulative disabilities of all the key actors and stake-
holders involved or affected and you have a great pool of ignorance. When that
ignorance infiltrates the resource pool that supports and guides action, some really
dumb, disappointing, and often extremely damaging stuff can happen.
So how do we come up with worthy aspirations, approaches to achieving them,
and the capabilities needed to power the approaches? Problem formulation and
problem-solving using systems principles can help. Drawing on these principles is
especially useful for coming up with good ideas worth implementing that can be
implemented. When deployed in a group setting or when key stakeholders are oth-
erwise engaged with understanding, analyzing, and addressing important chal-
lenges, systems principles can also help with building the coalition of support
needed to adopt recommendations flowing from the effort and protecting them dur-
ing implementation.
Enabling Collaborative Governance Through Systems Modeling Methods is a
valuable and much-needed book. As the editors Carmine Bianchi, Luis Luna-Reyes,
and Elliot Rich note in their introduction, the focus is on “collaborative governance
for public policy and managerial problem-solving through systemic principles, as
well as through the use of group processes to facilitate agreement and buy-in regard-
ing collective strategies.” In other words, the book is meant to foster understanding
and analysis of complex systems in such a way that changes can be made to produce
better outcomes. The inventory of systems modeling and analysis approaches is
diverse. This volume focuses on a few of these, including system dynamics model-
ing, participatory approaches to system dynamics modeling, and the use of system
dynamics for performance management. The book shows clearly how system
dynamics thinking can make extremely valuable contributions to collaborative gov-
ernance, policy making, and implementation not likely using other methods. Hooray
for this book!
