THE DILEMMA OF PUBLIC SECURITY AND BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS

WHAT SCHOLARS HAVE TO SAY TO POLICYMAKERS ABOUT IT?

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https://doi.org/10.56081/2763-9940/revsusp.v1n1.a12

Keywords:

Public security, business competitiveness, citizen security, business improvement district (BIDS).

Abstract

The binomial public security and business competitiveness is not a prevailing trend neither in studies on strategic management nor in academic works on public safety. However, some significant works on the subject have already been published. This article surveys and classifies some of the main studies regarding how public safety and business competitiveness interact. Its main argument is that the studies about the security-competitiveness dilemma reveals two big academic debates: one focused on the impacts of public security on busines competitiveness, and the other concentrated on the reversal side of the puzzle., i.e., on the impacts of business strategies on public security. The study is divided into three parts. The two first analyze the two big scholarly debates, while the third lists the two debates` main findings and, based on them, enumerates a brief list of policy prescriptions regarding the security-competitiveness dilemma.

Author Biography

Ironildes Bueno Silva, Visiting Professor School of Foreign Service Georgetown University

Nidi Bueno holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Brasilia (Program with a note 6 by Capes), with a Doctoral Residency at Georgetown University, United States. Among his main academic activities are Visiting Professor at Edmond A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University (2019-2020), in Washington (USA), developing research in State Governments and International Business; Teacher does Professional Master's in Business Administration from UniAlfa (from August 2020); Professor of the Master's Program in Political Science at the University Center Euroamericano (UNIEURO, Brasília-DF), Visiting Professor of International Marketing at the Ohio University Business School (2017-2018), Non- International Marketing Resident in the Master in International Business at the Steinbeis University in Berlin (Germany, 2014-2016), Professor of Marketing International (2011-2014) and Director (2013-2014) of the International Relations Course at the Catholic University of Brasilia, Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University (Taipei, 2013), Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University (Washington, DC, 2009-2010), Junior Associate Researcher at the Institute of Relations International University of Brasília (iREL-UnB, 2005-2006); Position in the Southern Africa Department of the World Amnesty International Office in London (2004) and was Invited Professor of the International Relations Course at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) of Goiás (2003). Nidi Bueno is author / co-author 9 books and several academic articles published in Brazil and the United States of America. Winner of four academic awards: Bolsa Capes the Doctorate Program with Internship Abroad (PDEE, 2009), the Taiwan Government Fellowship (2013), the European Union Visitor Program (EUVP, 2014) and the UnB-Capes Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2016). His main areas of interest are: International Marketing, International Business, Political Economy International, Public Policies and Trade Promotion of Subnational Governments.

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Published

2022-11-17

How to Cite

SILVA, I. B. THE DILEMMA OF PUBLIC SECURITY AND BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS: WHAT SCHOLARS HAVE TO SAY TO POLICYMAKERS ABOUT IT?. Journal of the Unified Public Security System, Brasília, Brasil, v. 1, n. 1, 2022. DOI: 10.56081/2763-9940/revsusp.v1n1.a12. Disponível em: https://revistasusp.mj.gov.br/susp/index.php/revistasusp/article/view/25. Acesso em: 10 apr. 2025.

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): 1st Edition

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Essay

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