Andrej Christian Lindholst
Biographic Data
| ID | 4387690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrej Christian Lindholst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrej Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindholst |
| SIGNATURE | LINDHOLST A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8301-6187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Partisanship within city limits: Explaining employment policy outcomes in Danish municipalities
Two opposing views are central to the literature on local politics. An older view holds that local policy outcomes are determined primarily by cities’ structural constraints. A newer view claims that partisanship and ideology are increasingly important. In this article, we argue that the two views are complementary rather than competing paradigms. By combining them, researchers can come closer to understanding when and under what conditions parti…
Tinkering with good care: Professional judgment and innovations in Danish nursing homes
This article examines the COVID-19 pandemic as a large-scale natural experiment, presenting unique opportunities for reflection and insights into what constitutes 'good care' for front-line managers in Danish nursing homes. Using care and institutional theory, this exploratory study delves into how professional judgment and innovation redefine practices in nursing homes to provide quality care based upon qualitative questions in a national quanti…
The governing instruments for resilience in the neo‐Weberian state: The challenge of integrating Ukrainian war refugees
The unsettling conditions of contemporary society, marked by recurrent transboundary crises and turbulence, stimulate discussions about the resilience of different governing models. Public bureaucracy and its governing instruments are confronted with the virtues and vices of models dominated by markets and networks. We present a case study demonstrating how the governing instruments within a system resembling a neo‐Weberian state model with a ref…
Manager characteristics and early innovation adoption during crises: The case of Covid-19 preventive measures in Danish Eldercare
Reacting rapidly and adequately in the early stages of a crisis is crucial to effective crisis management. This study analyses the relationship between key first-line manager characteristics, early innovation adoption and crisis scenarios in the context of Danish eldercare during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis. Our findings show that manager characteristics such as education level, eldercare job tenure and previous similar experience are…
Long Live Marketization for Local Public Spaces: A Study of Scandinavian Managers’ Satisfaction with Private Provider Performance
Continued critiques, evidence and newer reform trends have increasingly contested the use of market-centered models–the competition prescription–for urban public space maintenance as well as other local services. This article adopts a contextualized contingency perspective on the competition prescription and questions the contested status of market-centered models in a survey-based study of the current use of and satisfaction with private provide…
Elevernes oplevelse af nationale test: En spørgeskemaundersøgelse af elever fra strategisk udvalgte folkeskoler i Aalborg Kommune
I denne artikel komplementerer vi tidligere forskning og undersøger, hvordan folkeskoleelver i 8. og 9. klasser opfatter de nationale test, samt hvordan opfattelsen hænger sammen med faglighed, (mis)trivsel og køn. Undersøgelsen bygger på en spørgeskemaundersøgelse og fokusgruppeinterviews gennemført i 2019 med elever i Aalborg Kommunie. Vi finder, at store elevgrupper har en overvejemde negativ opfattelse af de nationale test, og at elevernes hu…
Contracting out local road and park services: Economic Effects and Their Strategic, Contractual and Competitive Conditions
The economic rationale for contracting out local services is increasingly contested by empirical research. This article aims to contribute to this literature, first by scrutinising the economic effects of contracting out in local road and park services and, second, by exploring how characteristics such as markets, contracts, municipal strategies and contracting history influence these outcomes. Drawing on original survey data from Danish municipa…
The many outcomes from contracting out: The voice of public managers
This paper argues that adopting a stakeholder approach to the study of contracting outcomes produces more rich and rounded representations of the realities of the contracting out of public services. We revisit the research on contracting outcomes, highlighting the public manager perspective as key for gaining deeper, more detailed insights. The public manager perspective is explored in an inductive analysis of answers to open-ended survey questio…
The Inherent Politics of Managing the Quality of Urban Green Spaces
Although the term ‘quality’ has a universal positive connotation and typically is framed by a focus on improvements, its application includes as well as excludes the access, values and world views of particular actors and interests. In this article, we highlight the relevance and implications of such ‘inherent politics’ through a case study of a widespread approach to operationalizing quality in urban green space management. We conclude that adop…
Managerial Challenges in Public Service Contracting: Lessons in Green‐space Management
In this article, we address a series of interrelated issues in the managerial challenge of public service contracting. This is done by prompting ten issues within four objectives and highlighting their relevance and potential interrelatedness in effective contract management. In contrast to prevalent piecemeal and theoretically one‐dimensional approaches, the objectives and issues constitute a holistic framework that advances a comprehensive and …
Contracting out local road and park services: Economic Effects and Their Strategic, Contractual and Competitive Conditions
The economic rationale for contracting out local services is increasingly contested by empirical research. This article aims to contribute to this literature, first by scrutinising the economic effects of contracting out in local road and park services and, second, by exploring how characteristics such as markets, contracts, municipal strategies and contracting history influence these outcomes. Drawing on original survey data from Danish municipa…
Managerial Challenges in Public Service Contracting: Lessons in Green‐space Management
In this article, we address a series of interrelated issues in the managerial challenge of public service contracting. This is done by prompting ten issues within four objectives and highlighting their relevance and potential interrelatedness in effective contract management. In contrast to prevalent piecemeal and theoretically one‐dimensional approaches, the objectives and issues constitute a holistic framework that advances a comprehensive and …
The many outcomes from contracting out: The voice of public managers
This paper argues that adopting a stakeholder approach to the study of contracting outcomes produces more rich and rounded representations of the realities of the contracting out of public services. We revisit the research on contracting outcomes, highlighting the public manager perspective as key for gaining deeper, more detailed insights. The public manager perspective is explored in an inductive analysis of answers to open-ended survey questio…
The governing instruments for resilience in the neo‐Weberian state: The challenge of integrating Ukrainian war refugees
The unsettling conditions of contemporary society, marked by recurrent transboundary crises and turbulence, stimulate discussions about the resilience of different governing models. Public bureaucracy and its governing instruments are confronted with the virtues and vices of models dominated by markets and networks. We present a case study demonstrating how the governing instruments within a system resembling a neo‐Weberian state model with a ref…
Long Live Marketization for Local Public Spaces: A Study of Scandinavian Managers’ Satisfaction with Private Provider Performance
Continued critiques, evidence and newer reform trends have increasingly contested the use of market-centered models–the competition prescription–for urban public space maintenance as well as other local services. This article adopts a contextualized contingency perspective on the competition prescription and questions the contested status of market-centered models in a survey-based study of the current use of and satisfaction with private provide…
Managerial Challenges in Public Service Contracting: Lessons in Green‐space Management
In this article, we address a series of interrelated issues in the managerial challenge of public service contracting. This is done by prompting ten issues within four objectives and highlighting their relevance and potential interrelatedness in effective contract management. In contrast to prevalent piecemeal and theoretically one‐dimensional approaches, the objectives and issues constitute a holistic framework that advances a comprehensive and …
The Inherent Politics of Managing the Quality of Urban Green Spaces
Although the term ‘quality’ has a universal positive connotation and typically is framed by a focus on improvements, its application includes as well as excludes the access, values and world views of particular actors and interests. In this article, we highlight the relevance and implications of such ‘inherent politics’ through a case study of a widespread approach to operationalizing quality in urban green space management. We conclude that adop…
The many outcomes from contracting out: The voice of public managers
This paper argues that adopting a stakeholder approach to the study of contracting outcomes produces more rich and rounded representations of the realities of the contracting out of public services. We revisit the research on contracting outcomes, highlighting the public manager perspective as key for gaining deeper, more detailed insights. The public manager perspective is explored in an inductive analysis of answers to open-ended survey questio…
Contracting out local road and park services: Economic Effects and Their Strategic, Contractual and Competitive Conditions
The economic rationale for contracting out local services is increasingly contested by empirical research. This article aims to contribute to this literature, first by scrutinising the economic effects of contracting out in local road and park services and, second, by exploring how characteristics such as markets, contracts, municipal strategies and contracting history influence these outcomes. Drawing on original survey data from Danish municipa…
Elevernes oplevelse af nationale test: En spørgeskemaundersøgelse af elever fra strategisk udvalgte folkeskoler i Aalborg Kommune
I denne artikel komplementerer vi tidligere forskning og undersøger, hvordan folkeskoleelver i 8. og 9. klasser opfatter de nationale test, samt hvordan opfattelsen hænger sammen med faglighed, (mis)trivsel og køn. Undersøgelsen bygger på en spørgeskemaundersøgelse og fokusgruppeinterviews gennemført i 2019 med elever i Aalborg Kommunie. Vi finder, at store elevgrupper har en overvejemde negativ opfattelse af de nationale test, og at elevernes hu…
Manager characteristics and early innovation adoption during crises: The case of Covid-19 preventive measures in Danish Eldercare
Reacting rapidly and adequately in the early stages of a crisis is crucial to effective crisis management. This study analyses the relationship between key first-line manager characteristics, early innovation adoption and crisis scenarios in the context of Danish eldercare during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis. Our findings show that manager characteristics such as education level, eldercare job tenure and previous similar experience are…
Long Live Marketization for Local Public Spaces: A Study of Scandinavian Managers’ Satisfaction with Private Provider Performance
Continued critiques, evidence and newer reform trends have increasingly contested the use of market-centered models–the competition prescription–for urban public space maintenance as well as other local services. This article adopts a contextualized contingency perspective on the competition prescription and questions the contested status of market-centered models in a survey-based study of the current use of and satisfaction with private provide…
Tinkering with good care: Professional judgment and innovations in Danish nursing homes
This article examines the COVID-19 pandemic as a large-scale natural experiment, presenting unique opportunities for reflection and insights into what constitutes 'good care' for front-line managers in Danish nursing homes. Using care and institutional theory, this exploratory study delves into how professional judgment and innovation redefine practices in nursing homes to provide quality care based upon qualitative questions in a national quanti…
The governing instruments for resilience in the neo‐Weberian state: The challenge of integrating Ukrainian war refugees
The unsettling conditions of contemporary society, marked by recurrent transboundary crises and turbulence, stimulate discussions about the resilience of different governing models. Public bureaucracy and its governing instruments are confronted with the virtues and vices of models dominated by markets and networks. We present a case study demonstrating how the governing instruments within a system resembling a neo‐Weberian state model with a ref…
Partisanship within city limits: Explaining employment policy outcomes in Danish municipalities
Two opposing views are central to the literature on local politics. An older view holds that local policy outcomes are determined primarily by cities’ structural constraints. A newer view claims that partisanship and ideology are increasingly important. In this article, we argue that the two views are complementary rather than competing paradigms. By combining them, researchers can come closer to understanding when and under what conditions parti…
Political science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Public Procurement and Policy (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Public-Private Partnership Projects (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Danish (3 works) · Marketing (3 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (3 works)