Promoting and protecting values through leadership agency

: Experiences from disaggregation and autonomisation of municipal waste management

Authors

  • Ole Johan Andersen Nord University, Faculty of Social Science, Bodø
  • Harald Torsteinsen UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of sociology, political science and community planning (Campus Harstad)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v20i3.14944

Keywords:

Leadership, Institutional transformation, Organizational identity, Local government, Waste management

Abstract

The disaggregation and autonomisation of public service procurement have been at the leading edge for the last two to three decades, not least due to the importance which New Public Management (NPM)-inspired reform programs have acquired. Rather than rejecting such organisational tools, we attempt to revea lthe complexity of the transformation of a municipal service-providing organisation with relatively delimited, clear-cut aims. Not only do we address issues related to how the transformation proceeded, but also more analytically challenging questions of why it was feasible to accomplish such a complex process in a relatively short period. Our focus on how  and why issues favours a single case study design, and we have chosen a waste collecting and processing organisation that was devolved step-by-step from the municipal political-hierarchical system of governance. When approaching the how issues we draw on the analytic framework laid down by Ibarra et al. (2010). However, regarding the important why issues we find Selznick’s (1957/1984) notion of institutional leadership to offer useful clarification.

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Author Biographies

Ole Johan Andersen, Nord University, Faculty of Social Science, Bodø

Ole Johan Andersen is a professor of organisation and leadership at the Nord University, Faculty of Social Science, Bodø. His specialties are organisation theory, local/regional policy and innovation. He has conducted research within more fields including entrepreneurship and innovation, restructuring and regional development, inter-municipal partnerships, and at present the application of agencies in municipal service production.

Harald Torsteinsen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of sociology, political science and community planning (Campus Harstad)

Harald Torsteinsen is a professor of political science/public management at UiT The Arctic Univer- sity of Norway, Department of sociology, political science and community planning (Campus Harstad). His research interests include administrative and political innovation and reform in local government, management and organisation of public service provision and hybridity and legitimacy in regional and local government. Recent publication in English: co-author, Van Genugten, M. (2016) “Municipal waste management in Norway and the Netherlands – from in-house provision to inter-municipal cooperation”, in Bouckaert, G. & Kuhlmann, S. (eds.) Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis: National Trajectories and International Comparisons.

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Published

2016-09-15

How to Cite

Andersen, O. J., & Torsteinsen, H. (2016). Promoting and protecting values through leadership agency: : Experiences from disaggregation and autonomisation of municipal waste management. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 20(3), 77–99. https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v20i3.14944

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 3 (2016)

Section

Original Articles

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