Sub-theme 06: (SWG): Organizing the Public Sector: Changing Shapes and Assemblies

Convenors:
Christine Teelken, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nicolette van Gestel, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Ewan Ferlie, King's College London, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:45, H-Aulan
Networks and Competition in the Public Sector
Chair: Christine Teelken
Isabelle Trabut, Ann Langley, Jean-Louis Denis, Jeannie Haggerty, François Champagne, Mylaine Breton and Marion Gerbier
Organization as policy instrument: The case of mandated networks in healthcare systems
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nicolette van Gestel
Fausto Di Vincenzo and Daniele Mascia
Reorganizing the hospital sector: A dynamic analysis of inter-hospital collaboration and competition in the Italian NHS
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ellen Kuhlmann
Sue Dopson, Ian Kessler and Paul Heron
The use and consequences of the assistant role for the nursing profession in the English National Health Service
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Paolo Ferri
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, H-Aulan
(Higher) Education
Chair: Louise Fitzgerald
Rana Kasapoğlu-Önder and Çetin Önder
Organizational characteristics versus policy: Variation in Erasmus student and teaching staff mobility performance of Turkish universities, 2004–2009
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Justin Waring or Simon Bishop
Christine Teelken
How do academics deal with managerialism in higher education? A longitudinal study in the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mike Dent (or one of the co-authors)
Rosemary Deem
The re-assembling of the public university. Higher education organizations and autonomy
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Arjan Kozica or Julia Brandt
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, H-Aulan
Professionals versus Managers
Chair: Ewan Ferlie
Ellen Kuhlmann and Viola Burau
How professionalism matters: Mobilising knowledge in new managerial regimes in healthcare
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marja Gastelaars
Mirko Noordegraaf and Denise Van der Klauw
Professional boundary work. Theorization of change and boundaries in multidisciplinary health care practices
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Arild Waeraas or Haldor Byrkjeflot
Roy Liff, Thomas Andersson and Stefan Tengblad
The co-optation of new public management: Professional and organizational responses on accountability pressures
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Elise Penalva
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 11:00, H-Aulan
Professional(ism)s in the Health Care Sector
Chair: Mike Dent
Eivor Oborn, Girts Racko and Michael Barrett
Institutional work as exchanging material capitals in a circuit of legitimacy: The case of polyclinic reform in London
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christophe Dubois or Frederic Schoenaers
Aoife M. McDermott and Louise Fitzgerald
Managing public sector professional work: When best practice becomes bad practice
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mirko Noordegraaf or Denise vd Klauw
Ian Kirkpatrick, Bernadette Bullinger, Mike Dent and Federico Lega
The development of medical manager roles in European health systems: A framework for comparison
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Bente Bjornholt or Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen
Alison Holmes, Charles Vincent, Ewan Ferlie and Eleanor Murray
Characterising organisational control modes in healthcare: The case of infection prevention and control
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jean-Louis Denis (or one of the co-authors)
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 16:00, H-Aulan
Performance Management and PPPs
Chair: Nicolette van Gestel
Emmanuel Lazega, Anne Cazavan-Jeny, Elise Penalva-Icher and Chrystelle Richard
Do public authorities learn from business? New public management, risk allocation and advice networks in French public-private partnerships
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ian Kirkpatrick
Paolo Ferri
Dealing with poor performance in the public sector: An explorative study on two Italian cultural organizations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christine Teelken
Justin Waring and Simon Bishop
The diffusion of business innovation through public-private partnerships: The configuration of independent sector treatment centres in the English NHS
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Fausto di Vincenzo or Daniele Mascia
Mike Dent, Ken Eason, Dylan Tutt and Patrick Waterson
Electronic patient information systems and care pathways: Assembling the building blocks to better health within primary care?
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tatjana Andreeva (or one of the co-autors)
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, H-Aulan
Prisons and Police
Chair: Haldor Byrkjeflot
Christophe Dubois and Frédéric Schoenaers
The role of local public managers in Belgian courts and prisons: From professionalism to managerialism?
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Eivor Oborn
Arjan Kozica and Julia Brandl
Investment in forms: How institutional demands work inside bureaucratic organizations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Eleanor Murray (or one of the co-authors)
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, H-Aulan
The Public Domain, beyond the Sectors
Chair: Christine Teelken
Arild Wæraas and Haldor Byrkjeflot
The translation of reputation management and branding to the public sector: Five problems
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Roy Liff
Bente Bjørnholt and Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen
The effect of contracting processes on the goal attainment of agencies' internal performance contracts
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Aife McDermott or Louise Fitzgerald
Marja Gastelaars
Non-people in non-places? Middle managers in the public domain
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rosemary Deem