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- Bäck-Wiklund, Margareta, 1944, et al.
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Os hospitais são organizações saudáveis? Qualidade de vida no trabalho hospitalar no norte e no sul da Europa : Are healthcare organizations healthy? Quality of life in healthcare work in Northern and Southern Europe
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas. - 0873-6529. ; 86, s. 45-67
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- From a gender perspective, this article analyses the concept of "healthy organization" through the study of the "dual agenda" of healthcare organizations. Based in the EU funded project "Quality of Life in a Changing Europe", which priviledged a multi-method approach, we analyse data from an extensive survey applied in eight European countries (Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, The Netherlands, Hungary, Portugal, United Kingdom and Sweden) and present two case studies undergone at university public hospitals in Sweden and in Portugal. Results show that the perceptions of what is a healthy organization are developed around the notions of social support, life satisfaction, work engagement and work-life reconciliation. Gender variations are a common feature in each of these dimensions. Organizational policies, professional trajectories and family resources are directly related to these variations.
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- Johansson, Staffan, 1953, et al.
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Power and democratic accountability in strategic coordination bodies - An investigation from Swedish eldercare
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Ingår i: Nordic Political Science Association (NOPSA) XVIII Congress. University of Southern Denmark, Odense: 8-11 August 2017.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The establishment of strategic coordination bodies with members from differernt agencies, belonging to different principals, and are governed by various laws and regulations, can be understood as an answer to the demand for improved coordinated care around citizens with complex needs, e.g frail elderly people. This demand is also an example of the development ‘from government to governance’, but raises important fundamental questions of democratic control and accountability in the modern welfare state. These issues are addressed in current literature on network governance, but are not investigated very much empirically. The overall aim of the paper is to analyze collaboration bodies as a phenomenon in the modern welfare state. The specific aim is to investigate how the members of these governance networks perceive power and accountability, and are held accountable by their principals. The paper is conceptually built on theories of network governance and accountability. The empirical investigation is based on a survey with 981 respondents in 73 different coordination bodies in Sweden. The analysis shows that there seems to be an imbalance between perceived power and perceived demands from different stakeholders to account for the services. It opens up for a discussion of the meaning of the post-liberal state, and new perspectives on accountability and power in the modern welfare state.
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- McKelvey, Maureen, 1965, et al.
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Governance of Regional Innovation Systems: An Evolutionary Conceptual Model of How Firms Engage
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Ingår i: Academy of Management proceedings, Vancouver, Canada. - 0065-0668. ; 2015:2364, s. 1-25
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper draws upon insights from social science, in order to propose a conceptualization of the governance of a regional innovation system. We are specifically interested in ones initiated through public policy and aiming to stimulate the competitiveness of firms through developing new technological knowledge through collaborative research involving different organizations. We are assuming firms choose whether, when and how to collaborate. This paper proposes a conceptual model, which focuses upon the governance processes at the regional level of this translation of knowledge into innovation and entrepreneurship. The underlying argumentation for the model is built from existing research. We interpret that regional innovation governance depends upon capacity building among three heterogeneous organizations – namely university-government-industry. This represents a case of a polycentric, adaptive, complex and self-organizing system, whereby collective action is supported by norms and institutions in order to develop a region resource pool. Hence, our expectation is that our conceptual model will help explain why different outcomes are possible. The concluding section discusses a future research agenda, by going further to explore how to define and analyze the attributes (mechanisms) enabling governance of a regional innovation system as well as to analyze how public policy and firms engage.
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- Szücs, Stefan, 1964, et al.
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Coping with Citizens and Stress: Interaction Strategies during Public Service Delivery within Health Care, the Police, and Social Work
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Ingår i: 3rd Street-level Bureaucracy Conference, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, June 11-13..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Previous research and theory suggests that frontline workers adapt to workload-related stress in a number of ways, interacting towards or away from citizens, or even against citizens, but what are the actual practices of coping, and how is coping related to stress? The data comes from a web-survey sent to 990 public sector frontline workers in West Sweden during 2018 within the police, health care psychiatry, and social work organizations. The findings show that there are significant differences in stress: highest average level among social workers, followed by police officers, and heath care psychiatry. Four ways of moving towards citizens – through prioritizing motivated clients, rule bending/breaking, instrumental action, or using personal resources – and three ways of moving away from citizens – through aggression, by rationing, or routinizing – are revealed. Prioritizing and aggression are most common within the police, rule bending/breaking and routinizing in social work, and instrumental action within health care, but only instrumental action does not significantly increase stress, on top of individual characteristics and organizational demands and resources.
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- Szücs, Stefan, 1964
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Explaining Collaborative Performance Success: The Case of Multiple Constituencies’ Coordination Bodies for Frail Elderly Persons in Sweden
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Ingår i: EGPA (European Group for Public Administration) Annual Conference in Lausanne, 5-7 September 2018: PSG-GEP 2/4: Performance and Accountability in Public Sector :4. Collaborative Governance and Performance. Time: Thursday, 06/Sep/2018: 4:15pm - 5:45pm Session Chair: Thomas SCHILLEMANS, univ utrecht; t.schillemans@uu.nl (p. 12 in the program).
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Politics of public sector coordination is increasingly carried out in horizontally managed multi-level, multi-issue, and multi-actor coordination bodies for flexible, but sustainable quality coordination of performance. In Sweden, the coordination of public services to frail elderly persons is made by such coordination bodies that include politicians and administrators representing the multiple constituencies of local government’s social services and regional government’s health care, as well as both public and private service providers, and sometimes also representatives of local-regional associations and civic organizations. The research question is: Why do some multiple constituencies’ coordination bodies succeed and others fail? This paper tests hypotheses about how and why the governance through such complex coordination of performance is perceived as successful. The explanatory hypotheses are developed from (1) endogenous theories, seeking to explain success or failure in terms of internal characteristics, processes, and accountability checks made by the body and its members internally, and (2) ecological theories, which emphasize the environment and external accountability checks. The data comes from a survey sent in 2015 to all members in 73 coordination bodies across Sweden (response rate of 63 percent, N=545). The findings show that almost half of the variance in the perception of performance through collaborate quality coordination can be explained by accountability mechanisms stemming from the surrounding internal political and administrative institutions of the coordination body.
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- Szücs, Stefan, 1964, et al.
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Ledarskap inom människobehandlande organisationer
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Ingår i: Människobehandlande organisationer - Villkor för ledning, styrning och professionellt välfärdsarbete Redakröter: Staffan Johansson, Peter Dellgran & Staffan Höjer. - Stockholm : Natur & Kultur. - 9789127136311 ; , s. 232-251
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- Szücs, Stefan, 1964, et al.
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Multi-level Coordination Bodies of Democratic Networked Governance for Frail Elderly in Sweden
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Ingår i: NOPSA XVIII Congress at University of Southern Denmark, Odense : 8-11 August 2017.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- New policies for the frail elderly, integrating eldercare from local government and health care from regional government, rests on a complex transboundary policy challenge involving public and private service providers where different authorities must increasingly co-operate through multi-level democratic networked governance. The purpose of this paper is to study the members of such coordination bodies with questions about their representation, capacity and accountability in relation to horizontal management theory in the setting of the decentralized Nordic welfare state. Data rests on a survey sent to all members of 73 strategic multi-level coordination bodies handling frail elderly policy across Sweden. The findings show that representation is multi-level, but divided, into a coordination policy system of bodies staffed with either politicians or administrators from different levels of authority or mainly managers/professionals, with networks that are either local deliberative, regional strategic or public/private provider oriented. This horizontal policy coordination system determines the patterns of capacity and accountability, but perceived quality performance of the coordination body rests on latent differences in efficiency that are internal and external.
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