Paulina Kubera

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant); Head ofthe Division of Entrepreneurship and Business Communication in the Institute of Management and Information Systems at Poznań University of Technology

Considering climate change problems that European countries are currently struggling with, the aim of this paper is to examine the behavioural factors that affect corporate environmental sustainability (CES). Based on the relevant academic literature and reports behavioural barriers and enablers for corporate environmental sustainability are identi...

As a plethora of sustainability challenges are rooted in human behaviour, the aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that brings behavioural insights to the forefront in corporate sustainability research. The ABCD (attention, belief formation, choice, determination) approach, which is meant to assist policy-makers in analysing and d...

Behavioural insights have become increasingly entrenched in governments around the world, but there has been much less research done on their application to organisations, in particular business organisations. The main research question around which the article has been structured is: how far behavioural insights inform public policies aimed at fir...

Objectives: The aim of the article is to consider the evaluation of public interventions through the prism of evidence-based policy (EBP) as well as, more specifically, its potential to address the problem of how to produce in the process of impact evaluation usable knowledge that can help improve policymaking and policy implementation which can be...

1 lipca 2021 r. katalog krajowych spółek został poszerzony o nowy typ spółki-prostą spółkę akcyjną (P.S.A.). W zamyśle jej twórców ma ona ułatwić zakładanie i funkcjonowanie start-upów, w szczególności w obszarze nowych technologii. Można zaryzykować stwierdzenie, że jej wprowadzenie wiąże się z jedną z najbardziej kontrowersyjnych nowelizacji praw...

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to identify and discuss many trade-offs which have to be made by public authorities while designing and implementing state aid measures for entrepreneurs affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Design, Methodology/Approach: Based on the case study - the project “Grant for working capital for micro and small enterprises f...

Measuring average impacts of public interventions, which is a dominant approach in the evaluation of public programmes has little to offer to inform policy making. The ultimate goal of innovation policy is not the numbers of patents obtained or applied neither employment growth in the supported firms in terms of R&D personnel, although they can be...

The COVID 19 outbreak has hit the global (including the EU) economy unexpectedly and with great force. Many so far healthy undertakings have had to face the looming lack of liquidity. In order to counter the damage inflicted on undertakings and to perverse the continuity of economic activity during and after the coronavirus pandemic, public authori...

Purpose: There is a growing need expressed to view public interventions not only through their effects but also to consider how those effects are produced. The problem is that we live in a complex world which is characterised by feedback loops, adaptation by both- those delivering and those receiving the intervention. Case study approach which has...

The operation of a toll road typically involves an economic activity for which State aid rules apply. However, if the construction and operation of the road infrastructure is bundled and they are tendered out together, they usually fall outside the State aid regime. The reason for it lies in the fact that the use of competitive procurement procedur...

Organisations which receive external funding have been strongly infl uenced by the call to increase accountability, from one hand, and desire to enhance organisational learning on the other. It has been traditionally argued that tensions and trade-offs between these two are inevitable. However, this article demonstrates that it should not necessari...

Traditionally, marketing used to be associated only with the business sector and be perceived as a discipline which has nothing much to offer the public sector. However, some would suggest that many of the management tools developed in business organisations can be, mutatis mutandis, successfully applied in public organisations. Hence, this paper a...

Reflective practice has become an influential concept in the evaluation field. A greater use of reflective practice is advocated in reference to both evaluators’ own professional development, and as a means to enhance dialogue, stakeholders’ involvement and organisational learning in the evaluation process. The aim of the paper is to examine the ev...

Traditional evaluations of public policy actions focus on the input and output side of the intervention (i.e. assume the so-called ‘black box’ approach), whereas the experience of public intervention also affects deeper changes of the recipient companies. Thus, a third dimension of additionality has been introduced to the evaluation theory and prac...

Taking into account recent developments in evaluation theory and practice a new triad of evaluation purposes has been put forward: accountability, organisational learning and empowerment. First two ones, although traditional ones, are gaining new meaning when faced with the challenges of complex and dynamic reality. The traditional approach to acco...

Unia Europejska wspiera państwa członkowskie w dążeniach do podnoszenia standardów świadczenia usług publicznych (tzw. usług świadczonych w ogólnym interesie), zarówno finansowo (przede wszystkim w ramach unijnych funduszy polityki spójności), jak i dzięki koordynacji oraz upowszechnianiu dobrych praktyk, w tym przenikaniu do praktyki administracji...

The significant role of the European Union in diffusion of evaluation in Europe is widely acknowledged (Stern, 2009). Although evaluation has a long-standing tradition in the EU, and in particular within the European Commission, in recent years one can observe the process of its expansion, diversification and institutionalisation. The aim of the pa...

The significant role of the European Union in diffusion of evaluation in Europe is widely acknowledged (Stern, 2009). Although evaluation has a long-standing tradition in the EU, and in particular within the European Commission, in recent years one can observe the process of its expansion, diversification and institutionalisation. The aim of the pa...

The relationship between regulatory framework and entrepreneurial activity can be of a three-fold nature: law can foster entrepreneurship, hinder entrepreneurship or be neutral in this respect. One of the tools to underpin the capacity of public policy makers to ensure that regulation achieves its objective is the regulatory impact assessment (RIA)...

The paper introduces some of the main ideas behind impact evaluation of research, development and innovation policy instruments. Evaluation can be a powerful learning tool when the research is relevant and of high quality. This implies, inter alia, assessing not just the process and immediate effects of public interventions on direct beneficiaries...

Wraz z koniecznością coraz bardziej oszczędnego wydatkowania środków publicznych rośnie zainteresowanie decydentów publicznych kwestią dostarczania wiarygodnych dowodów na temat efektów podejmowanych interwencji publicznych. Artykuł przybliża podejście metodyczne w ocenie instrumentów pomocy publicznej na badania, rozwój i innowacje wynikające z in...

The formalistic approach taken in the majority of cases in the ex-ante state aid control requires further studies on the actual effects of implemented state aid measures. A variety of methods have been developed to identify the causal impact of aid and to address the problem of selection bias properly. Recent studies largely apply propensity sco...

More public authorities nowadays engage specialised undertakings to perform public services. This raises questions on the applicable rules to the selection of public service providers as well as their remuneration for public service delivery. The paper discusses the models of providing urban public transport services in the EU and in Poland and the...

The article tackles the issue of state aid as an instrument of policy. It formulates postulates on two basic criteria for evaluating programmes and projects of state aid, i.e. effectiveness and efficiency as well as on how to measure them. It argues the growing influence of the European Union on the construction of national state aid systems, which...