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- Andersson, Thomas, et al.
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Multiprofessional cooperation and accountability pressures. Consequences of a post-new public management concept in a new public management context
- 2012
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 14:6, s. 835-855
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines how multiprofessional healthcare teams, working as a post-New Public Management (post-NPM) reform, respond to accountability pressure resulting from the implementation of NPM reforms. The team members use three strategies to respond to this pressure: responsibility avoiding that results in conflict; responsibility ignoring that results in parallel work and responsibility sharing that results in cooperation. Depending on how the professionals respond to different contextual factors, the choice of strategies can either foster or inhibit cooperation in multiprofessional teams. Achieving holistic patient care is threatened when accountability pressure increases for teams that have not yet developed their internal routines of cooperation.
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- Barry, Jim, et al.
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Movement and change in the public sector : Bringing social movements into the analysis
- 2006
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 8:3, s. 433-448
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay seeks to develop a theoretical framework for public-sector managerial change that draws on social movement theory, an approach located within the domain of political sociology. The essay opens with a brief examination of the literature on the New Public Management and governance which, it is argued, draws on a neo-liberal agenda, displays a tendency to de-centre or marginalize considerations of democracy and politics and offers abstract, top – down, descriptions of change. Approaches to social movement theory are considered, with particular attention paid to two dominant schools: the political process approach and new social movement theory which account for ‘how’ and ‘why’ change occurs. By operating through grass-roots networks, and offering symbolic challenges to the dominant neo-liberal order, social movements help us to see more clearly the limitations of conventional wisdom on public-sector managerial change, and consider resistances, accommodations and messy compromises. The essay seeks to use such insights to re-conceptualize public-sector managerial change.
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- Berg, Monika, 1979-, et al.
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Mechanisms of trust for different modes of welfare service provision
- 2019
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Routledge. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Welfare services are an important channel for building institutional trust. But does it matter if the service is publicly or privately provided? Using SEM on individual data from public and private schools in Sweden, the authors test how the provision mode moderates the effects of positive and negative school experiences on trust in government. The results show that students' perceptions of teacher fairness are dependent on provision mode. Negative experiences are associated with decreased trust in government only in private schools. Positive experiences didn't affect trust. Thus, the use of private providers may provide greater challenges for maintaining institutional trust
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- Blomqvist, Paula, 1968-, et al.
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Contracting out welfare services : how are private contractors held accountable?
- 2022
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 24:2, s. 233-254
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A challenge for governments contracting out public services is holding accountable contractors who fail to meet agreed-upon standards. In social services, contract monitoring is complicated by the fact that contracts tend to be incomplete and performance hard to assess. In this study, we examine how local governments in Sweden hold private contractors accountable in nursing home care. The main finding is that a mixture of accountability mechanisms was used, but that social accountability was seen as most effective. Marketaccountability measures like contract termination and financial sanctions could not be applied as local governments lacked the capacity to enforce them
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- Brandsen, T., et al.
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Co-production, the third sector and the delivery of public services - An introduction
- 2006
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 8:4, s. 493-501
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, public management research has paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public services. Evidence of this is the rising number of publications on the topic, as well as a growing number of sessions and papers on the topic in academic conferences of the EGPA and IRSPM. However, much of the discussion on its role is motivated at least as much by ideology as by fact. We still lack a comprehensive empirical understanding of what happens when the third sector is drawn into public service provision. In this collection on Co-Production: The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services, we will try to enhance this understanding by presenting several new studies on the subject. We also introduce the concepts of co-production, co-management and co-governance as a conceptual framework that enables us to better understand such developments.
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- Brorström, Sara, 1982, et al.
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Boundaries of collaboration – the case of a temporary housing complex for refugees in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 24:4, s. 536-557
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Integration of recent refugees is gaining much attention in the aftermath of the European ‘refugee crisis’ and collaboration is often seen by public officials as vital to promoting integration. At the same time, achieving successful collaboration in practice is regarded as difficult. In this paper we explore the challenges in detail by tracing how collaborative work unfolds in practice as ongoing, dispersed and collective boundary work. We draw on a longitudinal study of a collaboration project involving a number of municipal and state organizations in Sweden, and aimed at integrating recent refugees into the labour market and society.
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- Brorström, Sara, 1982, et al.
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Fast fashion: the rapid layering of management fashions in the Swedish city of Gothenburg
- 2024
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 26:1, s. 245-264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By drawing on the institutional theory literature on management fashions paired with the layering literature, this paper shows how a city organization underwent rapid changes over a decade by continuously adopting fashions. This paper is based on a longitudinal study examining a city organization and its endeavours over ten years, including 108 interviews and about 650 hours of observations. The paper shows how layering and fashion drive each other, and that fashion accelerates the layering process. The paper also shows how organizational actors struggled to realize intentions to change while being held back by previous layers and adopted management fashions.
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- Casady, Carter B., et al.
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(Re)defining public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the new public governance (NPG) paradigm : an institutional maturity perspective
- 2020
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 22:2, s. 161-183
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPPs) are dominantly seen as part of an increasingly fragmented and uncertain public management paradigm known as New Public Governance (NPG). However, the effects of institutional maturity on PPP utilization within this domain remain understudied. In order to (re)define PPPs within the NPG paradigm, we develop a PPP institutional maturity model based on three institutional capabilities-legitimacy, trust, and capacity. We then use the U.S. PPP market as a case example to explore how the maturity of PPPs in an institutional setting depends on legitimacy, trust, and capacity in the PPP model.
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- Cunningham, Gary M, et al.
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A Heuristic Framework for Accountability of Governmental Subunits
- 2001
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 3:2, s. 145-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- New public management rhetoric calls for greater accountability of activities of governmental subunits in order to enhance effectiveness. This call focuses on results control as a universal approach that is perceived to bring the benefits of private-sector management to the public sector. While this claim has exploratory merit, a theoretical framework is needed to assess the processes by which accountability leads to effectiveness. This article builds such a framework. Public-sector and private-sector literatures are reviewed and integrated. This review suggests that singular, universal approaches to control are not appropriate nor desirable. Instead, using a systems/configuration approach, which is ideally suited to the complexity of governmental organizations, profiles of four different types of governmental subunits are constructed along with the control approaches that ideally may lead to effective performance in each. This framework is a heuristic device that expands the knowledge and theory of accountability in government organizations and can guide future research.
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