In the Name of Managerialism
Reforming Organizations in the Swedish Public Sector
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12450447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Blomquist (University of Lund, Sweden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 226-245 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administrative Theory & Praxis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-1806 • E-ISSN: 1949-0461 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10841806.2000.11643449 |
| OpenAlex | W2559934390 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
This paper focuses on the translation of managerialism in the Swedish public sector. A field study of the attempts by two large municipalities to launch a grand reform in the name of managerialism, that is, a purchasersupplier reform, shows the by now familiar difficulties of trying to change public organizations. Thus the actual consequences of actions taken in the name of managerialism are perhaps more complex than is often understood within new public management theory.The concept of translation could be a way of improving this understanding. By using this concept it is possible to grasp the complexity as well as the ambiguity and dynamism of change processes, a task that conventional concepts sometimes fail to fulfill.The overall analysis of the field study is held within the framework of institutional organization theory. By applying the notion of translation, a theoretical link can be constructed between organizational and institutional change
Ambiguity · Dynamism · Economics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Management · Managerialism · New public management · Organizational theory · Political science · Public relations · Public sector · Sociology · Accounting and Organizational Management · Computer Science · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
Interpreting qualitative data
The policy process in the modern capitalist state
Research in Organizational Behavior
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
Translating Organizational Change
Travels of Ideas
Imitating by Editing Success
Some practical aspects of qualitative data analysis
Constructing the political spectacle
The Visible Hand
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Reforming Organization
Communication Yearbook 15
The Bureaucratic Phenomenon
Advances in Social Theory and Methodology
Narratives of Individual and Organizational Identities
Introduction
Management
The social construction of reality
How institutions think
The New Public Management
The Unconscious Life of Organizations
Institutional Perspectives on Political Institutions
The Powers of Association
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
Institutionalized Organizations
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |