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abstract

There is no doubt that enterprise policy has become a popular choice for governments seeking to enhance economic growth, despite criticisms of its ineffectiveness. The purpose of this study is to understand the ways in which think tanks and their ideas shape the enterprise policy-making process: how enterprise policy ideas originate, who is involved, what sort of relationships exist between the stakeholders and how these relationships affect the overall process of enterprise policy-making. The application of institutional theory provides a detailed theoretical understanding of the process, the environment and the actors. Interviews with representatives from eight think tanks revealed that the ideas presented by think tanks to government have no formal process and are dominated by the relationships and informal channels of communication between key actors, allowing for an alternative focus on the origins of policy ideas as a possible explanation for the ineffectiveness of enterprise policy.

6. Conclusions

This study examines how enterprise policy ideas emerge in think tanks to explore whether this could possibly lead to the ineffectiveness of enterprise policy by understanding the enterprise policy process, the actors and the environment. Think tanks share a number of challenges with other institutions working with or advising government, it is very much a top-down approach with respect to policy-making or policy influencing (Arshed et al., 2016). It was never the aim of this study to establish a causal relationship between think tank ideas and the outcomes of enterprise policy. In any case, this would be very difficult as policy processes are complex and involve a multitude of actors. “If ideas emerging from think tanks are consistent with policy proposals from leaders of political parties, this can be taken as an indication of in- fluence, but finding congruence does not establish proof of impact” (Pautz, 2013, p. 373). The findings highlight that think tanks have no systematic method of understanding where ideas come from, and how they directly influence government officials with them. They take care to collect evidence to support their ideas before presenting them to government officials, but more often than not, the ideas are purposely beneficial to the government official that they have a relationship with or know of particular individual interests with respect to the political environment.