Decision making, Obligation, and Monitoring: In enabling State-community Collaborative Governance for Work Promotion.

This study examines the implication of decision making, obligations, and monitoring under enabling state, private sector, and civil society collaborative governance to understand third-country national's transition to work. Existing research pointed to public administration in the past that has shifted from the current adherence to “corporate” and “good” governance to a new collaborative partnership between governments, the private sector, and civil society to foster effectiveness, accountability, and inclusivity for successful sustainable development. However, collaborative governance cannot proceed without the effective monitoring of accountability, oversight, and performance monitoring. Analysing the implication of decision making, obligations, and monitoring in the realm of enabling state, private sector, and civil society under collaborative models to enable third-country nationals’ transition to work is key to interpret the phenomenon in Austria, Finland, and the Czech Republic. Based on qualitative cross-country comparative research, official documents, published and unpublished scholastic texts are collected and analysed by a document and content analysis technique. The findings show, decentralized social dialogue, targeted engagement for moral commitment, and compliance monitoring are major perceived influences in collaborative governance with a lack of transparency and inclusiveness that may impair effective government, private sector, and civil society partnership when looking at issues such as the employment-related transition of third-county nationals. The study demonstrated a certain network-based inclusive governance approach similarity but dissimilarities from the country’s institutional context. The outcome points to the post-bureaucratic hierarchal relationship in a contemporary fluid society, which allows the movement beyond corporate governance. This is relevant to performance measurement to generate stable communities, but the risk to public engagement, open dialogue, information sharing, effective feedback, and employing positive feedback on vulnerable people’s needs and/or rights for a work promotion, may not only constraint's ethnic minorities upward labour market mobility, but jeopardize sustainable development, a cohesive society and impair open democratic values. Acknowledgement: “The work on this article has been supported by the Charles University Specific Academic Research Projects Competition (project No. 260462)