Assistant Professor of the Department of Business Policy
URL Lecturer
Academic training
Doctora en Ciències Polítiques i de l'Administració. Universitat de Barcelona
MSc in Public Administration and Public Policy. London School of Economics and Political Science
Màster en Direcció Pública/Executive Master in Public Administration. ESADE
Licenciada en Derecho. Universitat de Barcelona
Licenciada en Ciencias Políticas y de la Administración. Universitat de Barcelona
Interest Areas
Public management
Public-private partnerships, alliances and networks
New forms of governance
Analysis and evaluation of public policies
Biography
Her areas of interest are the management of partnerships and their impact on the creation of public value; the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies, and the relations between companies and governments. On these subjects she has published various books and articles in specialized journals, she has presented papers at national and international congresses and she has given courses, seminars and lectures.
She has acted as consultant to various public administrations. The institutions for which she has worked include several departments of the Generalitat (Autonomous Government) of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council and County Council, and a large number of local governments and public companies.
She is the Principal Researcher of the Research Group for Leadership and Innovation in Public Management (GLIGP). The GLIGP is especially interested in processes of institutional development and the interconnections between the public sector, the profitmaking private sector and the third sector. In the theoretical framework of governance, the main thematic axes of her studies are:
a) democratic public leadership as an invigorator of institutional development; b) the analysis of networks, collaborations and partnerships in public management innovation; c) transparency and accountability of the public sector.
The GLIGP is characterized by being inter-university - Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service (New York University, United States), SDA Bocconi (Italy), Universidad de Chile (Chile), Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minais Gerais (Brazil) and ESADE. It is multidisciplinary and includes the participation of executives from the UNDP, the IADB, CLAD and Barcelona City Council. The GLIGP has obtained various competitive research projects, including the project for the Public Administration School of Catalonia ('The public management scenarios of the 21st century: Leading the collaboration'), the RDI project of the Ministry of Education and Science ('Public-private partnership systems in public service provision: Analysis of management and empirical evidence') and the RDI project of the IMSERSO ('Public management of the fourth pillar of the Welfare State. Long-term care services').
She has been Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the LSE London Urban and Metropolitan Research institute, London School of Economics (United Kingdom), and at the Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University, USA). She has obtained scholarships from the Fulbright Commission, from the Public Administration School of Catalonia, from the Jaume Bofill Foundation, from the Commissioner for Universities and Research of the Generalitat (Autonomous Government) of Catalonia, and from the Spanish International Co-operation Agency (AECI).
Before joining ESADE she was a researcher at the Carles Pi i Sunyer Foundation of Autonomous and Local Studies, and a Lecturer in Political Science in the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science, Universitat de Barcelona.
Selected publications
Albareda, L.; Lozano, Josep M. & Ysa, T. (2007). Public Policies on Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role of Governments in Europe. Journal of Business Ethics, 2007(74), 391-407.
Ysa, T. (2007). Governance Forms in Urban Public-Private Partnerships. International Public Management Journal (Ipmj), 10(1), 35-57.
Ramón Mora; Ysa, T. & David Martí (2007).Mesurar el valor públic. Una eina municipal per conèixer, ordenar i decidir. Síntesi (12). Centre per a la Innovació Local, Diputació de Barcelona
Albareda, L.; Ysa, T.; Lozano, Josep M. & Heike Roscher (2005). The role of governments in fostering CSR. Corporate Social Responsibility. Reconciling Aspiration with Application (pp. 112-128). Houndmills, Basingstoke, England: Palgrave McMillan and European Academy of Business in Society.[ISBN: 978-1-4039-4130-5]
J.L. Martínez-Alonso & Ysa, T. (2003). Las personificaciones instrumentales locales en Cataluña. Organismos autónomos, consorcios, mancomunidades y sociedades públicas. Madrid: Ministerio de Administraciones Públicas. [ISBN: 8470887378].
Maria Cortada; Ysa, T. & Estel Crusella (2004).Criterios para detectar buenas prácticas locales. Documents Pi i Sunyer (23).
Gallego, R.; Rosetti, N. & Ysa, T. (2000). One-stop-government in Spain: concepts in Spanish public administration reform, case studies, best practices, assessment of one-stop-government in Spain, and references. In Martin Hagen y Herbert Kubicek (Ed.). One-stop-government in Europe: Results from 11 national surveys (pp. 467-505). ALEMANIA: University of Bremen.
Ysa, T. (2000). Partenariados público privados en la gestión de centros urbanos. Análisis comparativo de modelos entre Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido. Seleccione una opción, 19, 47-60.
Ysa, T. (1996). Servicios sociales e infancia: análisis comparativo de casos en el Reino Unido y España. Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas (INAP), 13-14, 191-197.
