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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979
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Public Administration in transition: Studying understandings and legitimations amongst middle managers within a government agency
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Language and Politics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1569-2159 .- 1569-9862. ; 18:1, s. 107-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on how common-sense knowledge is enacted by middle managers in order to make sense of contemporary public administration. Specifically, the article demonstrates how managerialization and market logics is embedded in actors’ perceptions of public administration and becomes manifested through understandings and legitimations. The article presents an analysis of conversational data from middle management positions within a Swedish government agency. The analysis demonstrates how actors categorize a traditional hierarchy together with contemporary ideas of consumerism. It is also demonstrated how actors draw on legitimations of authority and mythopoesis in order to make sense of and to understand their managerial role within the agency. As such, the article contributes to contemporary public administration literature and its discussion regarding the effects of embedding marketization logics on actor and organizational levels as well as to ethnomethodologically informed literature within the social science and humanities.
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- Karlsson, Tom S.
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Shaping NPM : Social democratic values at work
- 2017
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Ingår i: Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives. - 9781138675940 - 9781317197928 ; , s. 37-52
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, New Public Management (NPM) reforms are discussed, with focus on the Swedish public sector. The purpose is to question assumptions concerning the emergence of NPM within a Swedish context. A historical review reveals that reforms within the Swedish public sector express a heavy influence from the private sector; the idea of letting business and commercial logics guide the rationales of public-sector reforms can be traced back to the early twentieth century. The findings presented in this chapter are of particular interest for policymakers and public managers within public organizations. One conclusion is that the pragmatism and reformism characterizing Swedish social democracy during the post-World War II era has enabled an adaption and adoption for emerging NPM policies; Scandinavian thinking has not focused on bad practices but rather on evolving reforms. This has resulted in responsiveness for reforms, ultimately leading to a distinctly Swedish form of NPM emerging from the need to satisfy both socialism and capitalism.
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979
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Searching for managerial discretion: How public managers engage managerialism as a rationalization for increased latitude of action
- 2019
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 21:3, s. 315-333
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on the managerial discretion that public managers experience. More specifically, it discusses how managerialism is an embedded ideological stance that influences understandings of public sector governance. I argue that managers’ perceptions of discretion are affected by these understandings. The analysis draws on empirical data from a longitudinal study, demonstrating how public managers engage discourses emanating from managerialism in order to rationalize increased discretion. The findings suggest that customer perspectives functions as a rationalizing factor for engaging public managers’ transition towards increased discretion. As such, this article contributes to knowledge about managerial discretion as well as managerialism.
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979
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Shaping NPM: Social Democratic Values at Work
- 2017
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Ingår i: Lapsley, I. & Knutsson, H. (Eds.) Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives. - London : Routledge. - 9781138675940
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, New Public Management (NPM) reforms are discussed, with focus on the Swedish public sector. The purpose is to question assumptions concerning the emergence of NPM within a Swedish context. A historical review reveals that reforms within the Swedish public sector express a heavy influence from the private sector; the idea of letting business and commercial logics guide the rationales of public sector reforms can be traced back to the early 20th century. The findings presented in this chapter are of particular interest for policy makers and public managers within public organisations. One conclusion is that the pragmatism and reformism characterising Swedish social democracy during the post-World War II era has enabled an adaption and adoption for emerging NPM policies; Scandinavian thinking has not focused on bad practices but rather on evolving reforms. This has resulted in responsiveness for reforms, ultimately leading to a distinctly Swedish form of NPM emerging from the need to satisfy both socialism and capitalism.
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- Karlsson, Tom, 1979
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The search for managerial discretion: How responsiveness is competing with neutrality in public management
- 2016
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Ingår i: Lund Public Management Seminar.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper concerns how managerial discretion is rationalised on an actor level within organisations that are characterised by reforms commonly discussed as New Public Management (NPM). The paper argues that positions of public management in the 21st century places civil servants in a position of increasing levels of demands and expectations from politicians as well as citizens. It is argued that within these contexts, public management needs to find ways of increasing authority in order to cope with such demands. The empirical data presented in this paper consist of a longitudinal study, wherein focus is kept on reforms towards increasing managerial activities within the organisation. The major contributions presented in the paper concerns how an emerging change of (managerial) logics has come to progress ideas of responsive administration in favour over neutrality in the form of (public) administration.
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- Karlsson, Tom S., 1979-
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Challenging the dichotomy of management and civil service : an institutional analysis of Swedish public management
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the wake of public sector reforms, commonly referred to as New Public Management, it has been suggested that actors engaged in public administration are changing the manner in which they understand the public sector. According to these perspectives, public reforms informed by (neo-)liberal policy have caused instances of economification and a proliferation of economy and efficiency as important and dominating norms of contemporary public organisations. In this paper I posit the question of how actors’ engaged in public administration make sense of the turbulent and pivoting reforms within the public sector? The paper is written within an institutional theoretical perspective, where both an agency- and structural perspective is engaged in order to enable a holistic analysis. The empirical material consists of four focus group sessions, in total 25 “managers” discussing issues concerning their positions and tasks associated with being engaged as public administrators within the Swedish central government. It was found that actors rejected the incompatibleness of contemporary public management on the one hand and traditional civil service on the other. Rather, actors enacted compartmentalised, yet interdependent, perspectives wherein the two mentioned roles could be used simultaneously in everyday life. On the one hand an internal perspective was enacted wherein a managerial discourse and managerial techniques were used. On the other hand an external perspective was enacted in order to safeguard citizens’ rights within the modern welfare state. It is concluded that the previously held dichotomy between management and civil service is a fallacious one. Rather than subscribing to faulty theorising surrounding a shift or a blending/merger of administrative roles, researchers of public administration should adhere to the general point made in this paper: actors engaged in public administrators are Managers as well as Civil Servants. This has great implications for the future role of public administration.
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- Karlsson, Tom S., 1979-
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New public management
- 2015
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Ingår i: Nationalencyklopedin. - Stockholm : Nationalencyklopedin.
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- Funck, Elin K., 1979-, et al.
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Fyra starka trender efter NPM
- 2019
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Ingår i: Kommunal Ekonomi. - Vallentuna : Kommunalekonomernas förening. - 0282-0099. ; :3, s. 37-38
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- I efterdyningarna av New Public Management finns ett behov av att förändra synen på organisering och styrning av den offentliga sektorn. Ett samlingsbegrepp för de nya teorierna kring styrning och organisering av offentlig sektor är post-NPM. I en nyligen publicerad rapport diskuterar Elin K. Funck och Tom S. Karlsson fyra starka trender inom ramen för området.
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- Firtin, Cemil Eren, et al.
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Calculation, justification, and medical profession: Introduction of performance appraisals and pecuniary incentives within an emergency unit
- 2019
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Ingår i: The Centre for Global Human Resource Management, International Interdisciplinary Conference on HRM, 03-05 April 2019, Gothenburg.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this article, we address the issues of calculation and economization within contemporary public organizations. We address issues of how choices of organizing emergency health care have been affected by a production of calculation. More specifically, we pay specific attention to how the use of performance appraisals, in terms of calculations and valuations, has become important components in the construction of pecuniary incentives for individual professionals within healthcare organizations. Drawing on empirical data from 12 in-depth interviews at three different emergency health care sites, the analysis reveals how calculation and accounting as a performative act shapes professional work. This article contributes to the growing literature focusing on accountingization by showing how the calculations enable the meet between accounting and medical profession and demonstrating the performative consequences of accounting on the medical work.
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