@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004772, author = {Javier, Aser B.}, journal = {国際開発研究フォーラム, Forum of International Development Studies}, month = {Mar}, note = {The current wave of enthusiasm given to the new prospects of public management rooted with business principles like public entrepreneurship has led to the transformation and the re-thinking of ways in the processes of the public sector administrative systems. The ambiguity of the concept of public entrepreneurship has given rise to demands for scholarly work in this relatively new field. The paper aims to unravel the conditions of public entrepreneurship becoming a local governance strategy in decentralizing polity in the local government of the Philippines. The assessment of public entrepreneurship is premised on James Rosenau’s(1992:14)three-dimensional theorizing on the analysis of governance-ideational, behavioral and political level. The ideational dynamics refers to the perception of public entrepreneurship; behavioral, the actions that support public entrepreneurship; and, political, the means to enact public entrepreneurship. The study focused on its assessment on three specific units of analysis in the Philippines, as three cases-in-a-case, the Province of Bulacan, the City of Marikina and the Municipality of Irosin. The local government’s perceived public entrepreneurship programs as geared towards community poverty alleviation, administrative reforms and business and industry assistance. The institutional programs assessed and identified in support of public entrepreneurship were organizational development in the province of Bulacan, the practice of managerialism in the city of Marikina and the local government-civil society synergy in the municipality of Irosin. The means to enact public entrepreneurship has been largely through policies and programs initiated by local chief executives, which consequently became a collective effort of the local government and the community. While public entrepreneurship is found to be an important element of public management necessary for strategic local governance decentralization, public entrepreneurship is not viewed as a deliberate effort to decentralize polity but as vehicles for change in general. The study also highlights that the conditions for the emergence of public entrepreneurship is heavily influenced by local chief executive leadership and vision, continuity of programs and civil society participation. Further, the Philippines Local Government Code of 1991 and recent developments in governance and management like managerialism, client first orientation and improvements of administrative systems and procedures were also identified as contributory to the emergence of public entrepreneurship as a local governance strategy in the Philippines.}, pages = {17--42}, title = {PUBLIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A LOCAL GOVERNANCE STRATEGY IN DECENTRALIZING POLITY}, volume = {21}, year = {2002} }