12. Sweden: Experiences with public-private partnerships: Balancing collaboration and competition
Anders Kristoffersson, Andrej Christian Lindholst, Bengt Persson, Thomas B. Randrup
13. Denmark: When rust never sleeps: Marketization as continuous organizational change
Andrej Christian Lindholst, Thomas Haase Jensen, Troels Høgfeldt Kjems
14. Norway: Municipal enterprise as pretext for marketization of park services: Insights from Oslo services
Ingjerd Solfjeld, Merethe Dotterud Leiren
15. Lessons from case studies: Working with marketization
Andrej Christian Lindholst, Nicola Dempsey, Thomas Barfoed Randrup, Ingjerd Solfjeld
Conclusions and outlook
16. The histories and futures of marketization
Morten Balle Hansen, Andrej Christian Lindholst, Carsten Greve
Andrej Christian Lindholst is Associate Professor at Department of Political Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on marketization and organizational change in the public sector and implications for management, organization and performance.
Morten Balle Hansen is Professor at Department of Political Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on the management and organization of public sector activities, including diffusion of novel management and leadership models, evaluation and performance management.
Marketization is one of the most powerful reform doctrines reshaping the organization of public service delivery throughout the last four decades. This book revisits conventional ideas and models of marketization and compares how these have diffused and evolved across municipalities in England and Scandinavia. The book highlights the paths and impacts of marketization as diverse and dynamic and asks us to reconsider what and how we think about marketization. The content of the book is co-authored by researchers from four countries and builds upon comparable surveys and case-studies from two longstanding ‘spearhead’ services – parks and roads – for the implementation of marketization. The book appeals to scholars and policy makers with interests in discussions about the history and future of marketization in an international perspective.
Andrej Christian Lindholst is Associate Professor at Department of Political Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on marketization and organizational change in the public sector and implications for management, organization and performance.
Morten Balle Hansen is Professor at Department of Political Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on the management and organization of public sector activities, including diffusion of novel management and leadership models, evaluation and performance management.