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Baschung Lukas

Baschung Lukas

Professeur-e HES associé-e

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Public management

Quality Management

Innovation policy

Higher Education

Local economic development

Sustainable development

Eurasia

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Professeur-e HES associé-e

Haute Ecole Arc - Gestion
Espace de l'Europe 21, 2000 Neuchâtel, CH
DECO
BSc HES-SO en Economie d'entreprise - Haute Ecole Arc - Gestion
  • Management public
MSc HES-SO en Business Administration - HES-SO Master
BSc HES-SO en Droit économique - Haute Ecole Arc - Gestion
  • Management public

2024

Looking into the black box of non-systemic quality management in public administration
Scientific paper ArODES

Lukas Baschung, Nicole Weber, Stefanie Hasler, Mathias Rota

International Journal of Public Sector Management,  To be published

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Summary:

Purpose – Through the lens of neo-institutionalism, this study suggests an up-to-date check of non-systemicquality management (QM) practices, based on the example of Swiss cantonal public administrations. Relatedfindings shall allow public managers to choose concrete tools for quality improvement, which are less resourceintensive than quality management systems (QMS). Design/methodology/approach – A framework of quality management tools (QMTs) is developed based on existing literature, tested and adapted through four case studies and applied to a broader variety of Swiss public administrations based on a survey. It is detected to what extent QMTs are used, since when and with what intensity by paying attention to the respective importance of new public management (NPM) and network governance (NG)-shaped QMTs. Findings – All examined offices use an important number of QMTs. Classical isomorphism only takes place on a superficial level. Findings are in line with more recent neo-institutional views, involving reflective attitudes of public administrations, which lead to a selective choice of QMTs. Non-systemic QM consists of NPM- and NG-shaped tools, although the latter are used less often in practice. Research limitations/implications – The obtained results need further confirmation based on a quantitively broader sample. Practical implications – It is suggested to practitioners to choose individual QMTs with a focus on performance impact, opting to use a smaller number ofQMTs in a systematic way ratherthan a bigger number with only half-hearted application. Originality/value – This article sheds light on the often invisible non-systemic QM in public administration.

2023

Research, technology, and innovation policies
Book chapter ArODES

Lukas Baschung, Jean-Philippe Leresche

Dans Emmenegger, Patrick, Fossati, Flavia, Häusermann, Silja, Papadopoulos, Yannis, Sciarini, Pascal, Vatter, Adrian, The Oxford handbook of Swiss politics  (Pp. 623–641). 2023,  Oxford : Oxford University Press

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Summary:

A multi-level governance approach is necessary to understand the small but very successful Swiss research and innovation system. Switzerland has taken a liberal political approach to its development, whereby the federal government has left the competence for research policy to its regional governments and to a stronger politically coordinated research system with an unusually high number of actors that are divided territorially and functionally. In parallel, although Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, it has succeeded in integrating itself into the European Research Area, which has positively contributed to its innovation capacity. However, due to political conflicts with the European Union, the well-balanced Swiss governance system of the research and innovation field and the field’s high capacity are seriously threatened.

Conditions for effective implementation of quality management systems in public administration :
Scientific paper ArODES
a literature review

Lukas Baschung

Hrvatska i komparativna javna uprava,  2023, 23, 3, 365-386

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Summary:

After the introduction of quality management systems (QMS), such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) in the private sector, they were also starting to be used in the public sector. However, the simple one-to-one transfer of QMS from the private to the public sector has been accompanied by criticism, mostly due to the specific nature of public administrations which would be incompatible with QMS concepts coming from the private sector. In addition, it turned out that circumstances of quality management systems implementation (QMS) are determinant for the success of QMS in public administrations. However, literature on relevant conditions for successful implementation is dispersed in qualitative case studies, country studies or one specific type of QMS. Therefore, this article gathers and synthesises relevant variables through a thematic literature review, which was carried out in internal databases of 21 leading public administration journals and three leading quality management journals, as well as in Google Scholar. Five variable categories, which are transversal to all analysed QMS could be detected in an inductive way: commitment and resources, structure and culture, attitude and skills, time, and measurement and communication. Given the high level of requirements related to the implementation of QMS and the limited pressure to adhere to quality management labels in the public sector, it is suggested that public administration managers also examine alternative non-systemic quality management tools to improve their organizations’ performance. Public administrations could use simplified QMS or even only a series of quality management tools in order to improve their performance. Research has shown that single quality management tools can have a positive impact on the performance of public administrations. Thus, there seems to be some potential for non-systemic quality management.

Overview of higher education (Switzerland)
Professional paper ArODES

Carole Probst, Lukas Baschung, Franziska Zellweger

Bloomsbury BECS,  b-9781350934412-011

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Trends in higher education (Switzerland)
Professional paper ArODES

Franziska Zellweger, Carole Probst, Lukas Baschung

Bloomsbury BECS,  b-9781350934412-012

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Role of research and knowledge creation in higher education (Switzerland)
Professional paper ArODES

Lukas Baschung, Carole Probst

Bloomsbury BECS,

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Government, policy and the role of the State in higher education (Switzerland)
Professional paper ArODES

Lukas Baschung, Christian Wassmer

Bloomsbury BECS,

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2022

Politique de la recherche, de la technologie et de l'innovation
Book chapter ArODES

Jean-Philippe Leresche, Lukas Baschung

Dans Emmenegger, Patrick, Fossati, Flavia, Häusermann, Silja, Papadopoulos, Yannis, Sciarini, Pascal, Vatter, Adrian, Handbuch der Schweizer Politik = Manuel de la politique suisse  (Pp. 811-834). 2022,  Bâle : NZZ Libro

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Characterising strategic collaboration of large Swiss municipalities
Scientific paper ArODES

Lukas Baschung, Jérôme Heim

Local government studies,  To be published

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Summary:

By analysing legislative programmes of all Swiss municipalities having more than 20,000 inhabitants (in 2018) and in two different time periods (2010 and 2020), this study examines the general place of collaboration in municipal strategies, by paying attention to the various public fields and degree of complexity in terms of actor constellations. As in real life, collaboration occupies also an important part of the large Swiss municipal governments’ strategic reflections. Yet, a certain gap exists regarding the weight given to public fields. Indeed, politically selling fields seem to get more place in legislative programmes than in real life. Collaboration, such as planned in municipal strategies, involves a large diversity of actors and thereby achieves a certain complexity which clearly goes beyond the intermunicipal level. The degree of complexity does not evolve over time but inhabitants become a strategically more important collaborative actor for municipalities.

2020

How effective are doctoral schools? :
Book chapter ArODES
organisational characteristics and related objectives

Lukas Baschung

Dans Cardoso, Sonia, Carvalho, Teresa, Sin, Cristina, Tavares, Orlanda, Structural and institutional transformations in doctoral education  (Pp. 175-202). 2020,  Cham, Suisse : Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary:

Since about two decades, new organisational units called ‘Doctoral schools’ suggest activities to doctoral students, like further education, multiple supervision or career promotion, in addition to the traditional apprenticeship model. A large variety of organisational forms has been established. Based on public management literature and data dealing with Swiss higher education, the present chapter examines doctoral schools’ effectiveness by paying attention to their objectives and organisational structure. Results show that exogenous factors, like the form of the network collaboration, type of inception and developmental stage, indeed have a certain impact on the doctoral schools’ effectiveness. However, it also seems possible to compensate exogenous factors, which a priori do not represent the best preconditions for effectiveness, by endogenous factors like resource availability and common purposes.

2018

Cooperation and competition in Swiss doctoral training :
Book chapter ArODES
for the sake of the knowledge society ?

Lukas Baschung

Dans Jones, Glen A., Kehm, Barbara M., Shin, Jung Cheol, Doctoral education for the knowledge society : convergence or divergence in national approaches ?  (pp. 51-66). 2018,  Cham : Springer

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Summary:

This chapter describes the remarkable quantitative and qualitative evolution of Swiss doctoral education during the last 20 years and its contribution to the competitiveness of Swiss higher education and research institutions. In parallel to the increase in doctoral students, several elements of doctoral education such as recruitment and supervision practices have been reformed, although not in a systematic way. Many reform initiatives have been carried out in a cooperative manner among traditional universities. Although knowledge transfer has become an increasingly important issue in Swiss higher education and research policies, it has not been central to the reform of doctoral education. It will probably become more prominent in the next reform step. On one hand, the doctoral graduates’ situation in the nonacademic labour market has become less comfortable, and the pressure to actively promote the use of their knowledge and competencies in society has increased. On the other hand, requests for the creation of practice-oriented PhD programmes in collaboration with the young universities of applied sciences have become stronger.

2024

Swiss SME and start-up sustainable internationalization to Asian emerging markets :
Conference ArODES
recent trends and promotion initiatives

Philippe Régnier, Lukas Baschung

Proceedings of the EAMSA 40th Annual Conference

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The crisis as an accelerator of innovation and a transformer of the Innovation culture within public administrations? :
Conference ArODES
A comparison between Switzerland and Azerbaijan

Lukas Baschung, Aydan Eyvazzade

Proceedings of the VI International Scientific Conference of Economics and Management Researchers

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2023

Policy instruments and local economic development :
Conference ArODES
different use in productive and residential economy strategies?

Lukas Baschung

Proceedings of the V. International Scientific Conference of Economics and Management Researchers

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Summary:

Various substantive and procedural policy instruments can be used for local economic development. Based on the Swiss case, this study identifies eleven substantive policy instruments and examines whether they are used to the same extent in local economic development strategies focused on either the productive economy, represented by enterprises, or the residential economy, represented by residents. Furthermore, the use of procedural policy instruments, operationalised as cooperation, is determined. The planned use of instruments is only comparable in the case of the substantive policy instruments “infrastructure & energy supply”, “marketing” and “security”. In the case of all other instruments, the importance is differing quite strongly between residents and enterprises focused strategies. “Amenities”, “financial incentives”, “real estate” and, to a lesser extent, “day care, education & other social services” constitute more important instruments for the attraction of residents, whereas “land-use”, “networking & facilitating”, “support & services” and, to a lesser extent, “incubators & other parks” are the dominating instruments for the attraction of enterprises. The use of cooperation is clearly more often planned in the case of enterprises focused strategies. Substantive and procedural instruments contain an interesting potential for more intensive use in both types of economic development strategies.

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