Sub-theme 18: Escaping the iron cage of bureaucratic control or bringing the bureaucracy back in: New and old forms of autonomy and coordination in the public sector
Convenors:
Gerhard Hammerschmid, Hertie School of Governance Berlin, Germany
Per Lægreid, University of Bergen, Norway
Tamyko Ysa, ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University, Spain
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 09:00 to 10:30, E1-1-01
Networks and collaborative arrangements and networks as source of innovation
Chair: Gerhard Hammerschmid, Per Lægreid and Tamyko Ysa
Network Structures in the Public Sector - Responding to the Problem of Transnational Organised Crime
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rick Delbridge
Salvador Parrado
Creativity by crisis? How the financial and economic crisis affects central government coordination in Spain and Germany
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Lukas Summermatter
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, E1-1-01
Public private partnership arrangements as source of innovation
Chair: Tamyko Ysa
Ole Petersen, Henning Droege and Dagmar Hildebrand
Examining the Innovation Promises of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christian Huber
Infrastructure Australia: An Exciting, Innovative, Enhancing and Autonomous New Leadership Organization for Government, or
Just Another Entity Bound up in Politics, Rent-Seeking and Red Tape?
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Karen Breidahl
Bridging worlds in public-private joint ventures: overcoming sector barriers to collaborate
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ole Helby Petersen
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, E1-1-01
New forms of autonomy and coordination: the intraorganizational perspective
Chair: Per Lægreid
Rick Delbridge and George Boyne
Relationships between Societal Logics and Innovation Outcomes: The Case of Local Government Reform in the UK
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Thurid Hustdedt
Frames and Counter-Frames in the Discourse on New Public Management: The German Case
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ilpo Koskinen
Michael I. Reed
Leaderism and public strategic bureaucracy - the emerging conditions for autonomy, innovation and co-ordination in the reform
of UK public services
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Brigitta Niklasson
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, E1-1-01
Macrolevel institutional change: institutional logics and discourses
Chair: Gerhard Hammerschmid
Changing leadership organisation and intra-departmental coordination: Re-balancing politics and administration in German and
Danish ministerial Departments
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Angel Saz-Carranza
The Structures of Creativity
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marianne van der Steen
Janne Tienari, Satu Teerikangas and Ilpo Koskinen
Merging Academic Institutions in the Periphery: A Discourse Analytical Perspective
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Harald Torsteinsen
Session V: Friday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, E1-1-01
Theorizing Public Sector Innovation
Chair: Walter M.J. Kickert
Theorizing the process of management innovation
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tamyko Ysade
Kuno Schedler
Understanding management innovation in the public sector: path dependent and random decisions in accounting reforms
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Julia Fleischer
Risks in Prison Cells - The Management of Risks in Prisons as Element in the Fruitful Tension Between Public and Private Institutions
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Janne Tienari
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, E1-1-01
Bureaucracy Revisited: a return of bureaucracy and formalization
Chair: Michael Barzelay
Why does post-bureaucracy lead to more formalization?
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rick Vogel
Multiple Streams in Public Policy-Making and Regulation: How and Why Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) Developed so Differently
in Denmark and Ireland
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Judy Johnston
Back to Basics: The Re-introduction of the Machine-Bureaucracy in the Public Sector and Belief in “One Best Way of Organizing”
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sergio Seabra
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, E1-1-01
Managing public sector change and innovation: holy grail or achievable quest?
Chair: Gerhard Hammerschmid, Per Lægreid and Tamyko Ysa
Organizing for Policy Entrepreneurship. Empirical Evidence from The Netherlands
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Dermot O´Reilly
Civil service reform in The Netherlands. Planned or emergent change
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): John Brocklesby