Williams, C.C. and Dzhekova, R. (2014) Evaluating the Cross-National Transferability of Policies: A Conceptual Framework. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 19 (4). 1 - 18 . ISSN 1793-706X
Abstract
When seeking to harness entrepreneurship and enterprise culture, governments often seek to transfer policy measures successful in another country to their own. Until now however, governments have often lacked a practical evaluation framework for selecting policy measures and then appraising the feasibility and transferability of such measures. The aim of this paper is to fill that gap. Reviewing the literature on cross-national policy transfer, this paper provides a pragmatic evaluation framework for selecting policy measures and appraising their feasibility and transferability from one country to another. This details how successful policy transfer and cross-national policy learning must be informed by prospective policy analysis and testing the features of the specific policy initiative against the specifics of the national context and circumstances, and then establishes the criteria and processes through which potential policy adopters can identify promising policies used elsewhere to tackle similar problems in their own country and assess their 'goodness of fit' prior to transfer to national realities.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 World Scientific Publishing Company. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Entrepreneurship; enterprise culture; policy transfer; policy appraisal |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2015 09:13 |
Last Modified: | 10 Apr 2017 16:51 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1084946714500228 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1142/S1084946714500228 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87292 |