Dealing with “abnormal” business growth by leveraging local area common goods: an outside-in stakeholder collaboration perspective

Carmine Bianchi is Professor of Public Management in the Department of Political Sciences, University of Palermo (Italy), where is also the scientific coordinator of CED4 System Dynamics Group. At Palermo, he is also the director of the Doctoral program in “Model Based Public Planning, Policy Design, and Management”, and of the Master in Public Management. Professor Bianchi has research and consulting experience with public and private sector organizations in designing policies and outlining consistent programs to link policy design and implementation. In the last decade, Prof. Bianchi's scientific interests have been focused on the design of outcome‐based dynamic performance management systems aimed at fostering collaborative governance and enhancing quality of life in local areas.

Professor Bianchi is also member of the Editorial Board of leading international Journals, such as: International Journal of Public Administration, Public Administration Review (PAR), Public Management Review (PMR), and Public & Performance Management Review (PPMR).

He is also the editor of the Book Series on “System Dynamics for Performance Management & Governance“, by Springer.

He has been visiting professor at: the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany (USA); the College of Public Affairs at the University of Baltimore (USA); and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Brazil).

Dr. Vincenzo Vignieri is a Postdoctoral researcher in Business and Public Management at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, University of Palermo (Italy), where he also teaches Business Administration to Master Students.

He holds an international Ph.D. in Business and Public Management, from the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, University of Palermo (Italy). He has been visiting scholar at the School of Public and International Affairs, University of Baltimore (USA).

He has published articles on several academic and professional journals whose keywords for fields and methods of research are: Collaborative Governance, Co-production of Public Service, Urban and Rural Regeneration, Local Development, Performance Management, Business Models, Crowdsourcing, Platforms and Multisided Market‐places, System Dynamics, Case Study, and Action Research.

He is doing consultancy to both public and private organizations in the field of Urban and Rural Regeneration, Performance Management, and Integrated Sustainability reporting.

Former Postdoctoral researcher at the National (Italian) Research Council ‐ Institute for Archeology and Cultural Heritage, Catania (Italy), where collaborated on a project focused on “Strategies for Planning an Integrated Development of Urban Cultural Contexts.” Particularly, he supported the institute in creating a spin off to market the outputs of research on cultural heritage.