Abstract

• This paper aims to analyse the effect of blue ocean leadership and inter-organizational collaboration of Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) members on improvement of Yangon city performance during 2019 and 2020. Data from 65 randomly selected members are anslysed. From analysis, it can be concluded that YCDC committee members have been practicing blue ocean leadership since they take responsibilities after 2019 YCDC election. Among the three aspects of blue ocean leadership, only firsthand discovery has positive effect on city performance of Yangon, Myanmar. The committee members have been emphasizing more on finding the gaps and problems at the source. They are wandering around the city and they are gathering information about real issues. This firsthand discovery approach affects directly on city performance. However, they do not have enough time for their subordinates to provide the feeling of ease, feeling of confidant, and feeling of not fearing for initiatives to participate in this change process. They also have no time to assign tasks by matching with individual strengths and weaknesses of their subordinates. Their subordinates have to conduct the collaboration with outside associations and organizations for accomplishments of some city development projects. However, due to different structures, processes and contexts of different collaborating organizations, the inter-organizational collaboration between YEDC and other organizations is not significantly supporting to city performance.