Patrik Hall
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3975779 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patrik Hall |
| NOMBRES | Patrik |
| APELLIDO | Hall |
| FIRMA | HALL P |
| AFILIACIONES | Malmö University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3367-519X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Managers, Professionals, or Public Servants? Organizational Professionals in the Public Sector as Hybrid Professionals
The expansion of organizational professionals in the public sector is often interpreted as a manifestation of increased managerial control and bureaucratisation, raising questions about shifting professional identities in public administration. This study contributes to research on hybrid professionalism and identity work by examining how organizational professionals themselves perceive this trend and how they justify their roles within public or…
Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability
Recent research shows that new types of high-skilled administrators, what we in this article label organisational professionals, have amplified their presence in public sector organisations in relation to other types of public sector employees. Our purpose is to analyse how organisational accountability can be seen as a driver behind the expansion of organisational professionals. Intensified political and administrative pressures seem to be drivi…
Why Meetings Matter
This innovative book argues that meetings are a crucial feature of modern organisations, demonstrating that, contrary to popular belief, meetings are what define, represent and maintain organisations. Through an in-depth analysis of ethnographic case studies, Patrik Hall, Malin Åkerström and Erika Andersson Cederholm illustrate the inner workings of meetings, exploring phenomena such as meeting chains, meeting escapes, the digitalisation of meeti…
The Rise of a New Public Bureaucracy in New Zealand
One recurrent narrative in the discussion about managerial public sector reforms is the growth in organizational professionals as a response to new accountability regimes. New Zealand has experienced modest growth rates in the general public sector workforce. Less studied, though, is whether the composition of the public sector workforce has changed, with an increase in organizational functions supportive to management. Based on descriptive workf…
Performing ambiguous policy
The aim of this article is to analyse how innovation policy is staged and legitimised through the dramatised social process of an event. The context is taken from an annual event, Skåne Innovation Week, which is arranged by the regional innovation system in Skåne, Sweden. Innovation systems often organise similar events internationally, which appear to play a key role in performing inter-organisational collaboration between actors from the public…
The Projectification of the Public Sector
The Projectification of the Public Sector
Quality Improvement Reforms, Technologies of Government, and Organizational Politics
This article argues that quality-improvement reforms in health care are political reforms that aim to reconstruct organizational power relations. The argument is based on a case study of how a small women's clinic in Sweden subjected itself to a Total Quality Management-inspired process organization in order to win a quality award. The quality-improvement activities at the clinic seek to establish a centralized, communitarian organization without…
Is there a Nordic Approach to Questions of Democracy in Studies of Network Governance
The notion of democratic network governance has attracted growing interest among students of local and regional governance in all the Nordic countries since the 1990s. This article examines whether research in this area reflects a particular Nordic account of democracy. The Nordic countries have strong traditions of local autonomy, local networks and the inclusion of civil society associations. The authors find reason to expect that the Nordic tr…
Opportunities for Democracy in Cross-border Regions? Lessons from the Øresund Region
Hall P. Opportunities for democracy in cross-border regions? Lessons from the Øresund Region, Regional Studies. This article critically assesses the democratic character of cross-border regions within the European Union. Cross-border cooperation could be an experimental field for the project of making the Union more democratic through transnational partnerships, especially since large parts of cross-border policy formation are done by the local a…
The rise and decline of a visionary policy
During the 1990s a new policy area – ICT-policy – evolved in Swedish politics. It manifested itself through a number of unprecedented initiatives from the government including a new type of institutional set-up. These initiatives all encompassed an u
Nationalism and Historicity
In this article the nation is shown to be a historical subject. As such, it is constructed and constantly reconstructed by discursive practices of power and knowledge. The author argues that the symbiotic interlinkage between nationalism and the organising knowledge principle of historicity, is an example of a power practice in the modern state. Throughout the article, it is shown that this practice is produced by interaction between the institut…
Opportunities for Democracy in Cross-border Regions? Lessons from the Øresund Region
Hall P. Opportunities for democracy in cross-border regions? Lessons from the Øresund Region, Regional Studies. This article critically assesses the democratic character of cross-border regions within the European Union. Cross-border cooperation could be an experimental field for the project of making the Union more democratic through transnational partnerships, especially since large parts of cross-border policy formation are done by the local a…
Is there a Nordic Approach to Questions of Democracy in Studies of Network Governance
The notion of democratic network governance has attracted growing interest among students of local and regional governance in all the Nordic countries since the 1990s. This article examines whether research in this area reflects a particular Nordic account of democracy. The Nordic countries have strong traditions of local autonomy, local networks and the inclusion of civil society associations. The authors find reason to expect that the Nordic tr…
The rise and decline of a visionary policy
During the 1990s a new policy area – ICT-policy – evolved in Swedish politics. It manifested itself through a number of unprecedented initiatives from the government including a new type of institutional set-up. These initiatives all encompassed an u
Nationalism and Historicity
In this article the nation is shown to be a historical subject. As such, it is constructed and constantly reconstructed by discursive practices of power and knowledge. The author argues that the symbiotic interlinkage between nationalism and the organising knowledge principle of historicity, is an example of a power practice in the modern state. Throughout the article, it is shown that this practice is produced by interaction between the institut…
The Rise of a New Public Bureaucracy in New Zealand
One recurrent narrative in the discussion about managerial public sector reforms is the growth in organizational professionals as a response to new accountability regimes. New Zealand has experienced modest growth rates in the general public sector workforce. Less studied, though, is whether the composition of the public sector workforce has changed, with an increase in organizational functions supportive to management. Based on descriptive workf…
Quality Improvement Reforms, Technologies of Government, and Organizational Politics
This article argues that quality-improvement reforms in health care are political reforms that aim to reconstruct organizational power relations. The argument is based on a case study of how a small women's clinic in Sweden subjected itself to a Total Quality Management-inspired process organization in order to win a quality award. The quality-improvement activities at the clinic seek to establish a centralized, communitarian organization without…
Nationalism and Historicity
In this article the nation is shown to be a historical subject. As such, it is constructed and constantly reconstructed by discursive practices of power and knowledge. The author argues that the symbiotic interlinkage between nationalism and the organising knowledge principle of historicity, is an example of a power practice in the modern state. Throughout the article, it is shown that this practice is produced by interaction between the institut…
The rise and decline of a visionary policy
During the 1990s a new policy area – ICT-policy – evolved in Swedish politics. It manifested itself through a number of unprecedented initiatives from the government including a new type of institutional set-up. These initiatives all encompassed an u
Opportunities for Democracy in Cross-border Regions? Lessons from the Øresund Region
Hall P. Opportunities for democracy in cross-border regions? Lessons from the Øresund Region, Regional Studies. This article critically assesses the democratic character of cross-border regions within the European Union. Cross-border cooperation could be an experimental field for the project of making the Union more democratic through transnational partnerships, especially since large parts of cross-border policy formation are done by the local a…
Is there a Nordic Approach to Questions of Democracy in Studies of Network Governance
The notion of democratic network governance has attracted growing interest among students of local and regional governance in all the Nordic countries since the 1990s. This article examines whether research in this area reflects a particular Nordic account of democracy. The Nordic countries have strong traditions of local autonomy, local networks and the inclusion of civil society associations. The authors find reason to expect that the Nordic tr…
Quality Improvement Reforms, Technologies of Government, and Organizational Politics
This article argues that quality-improvement reforms in health care are political reforms that aim to reconstruct organizational power relations. The argument is based on a case study of how a small women's clinic in Sweden subjected itself to a Total Quality Management-inspired process organization in order to win a quality award. The quality-improvement activities at the clinic seek to establish a centralized, communitarian organization without…
The Projectification of the Public Sector
The Projectification of the Public Sector
Performing ambiguous policy
The aim of this article is to analyse how innovation policy is staged and legitimised through the dramatised social process of an event. The context is taken from an annual event, Skåne Innovation Week, which is arranged by the regional innovation system in Skåne, Sweden. Innovation systems often organise similar events internationally, which appear to play a key role in performing inter-organisational collaboration between actors from the public…
The Rise of a New Public Bureaucracy in New Zealand
One recurrent narrative in the discussion about managerial public sector reforms is the growth in organizational professionals as a response to new accountability regimes. New Zealand has experienced modest growth rates in the general public sector workforce. Less studied, though, is whether the composition of the public sector workforce has changed, with an increase in organizational functions supportive to management. Based on descriptive workf…
Why Meetings Matter
This innovative book argues that meetings are a crucial feature of modern organisations, demonstrating that, contrary to popular belief, meetings are what define, represent and maintain organisations. Through an in-depth analysis of ethnographic case studies, Patrik Hall, Malin Åkerström and Erika Andersson Cederholm illustrate the inner workings of meetings, exploring phenomena such as meeting chains, meeting escapes, the digitalisation of meeti…
Managers, Professionals, or Public Servants? Organizational Professionals in the Public Sector as Hybrid Professionals
The expansion of organizational professionals in the public sector is often interpreted as a manifestation of increased managerial control and bureaucratisation, raising questions about shifting professional identities in public administration. This study contributes to research on hybrid professionalism and identity work by examining how organizational professionals themselves perceive this trend and how they justify their roles within public or…
Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability
Recent research shows that new types of high-skilled administrators, what we in this article label organisational professionals, have amplified their presence in public sector organisations in relation to other types of public sector employees. Our purpose is to analyse how organisational accountability can be seen as a driver behind the expansion of organisational professionals. Intensified political and administrative pressures seem to be drivi…
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