Marketization in Local Government: Diffusion and Evolution in Scandinavia and England

ISBN-13: 9783030324803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 345 str.

Andrej Christian Lindholst; Morten Balle Hansen

Spis treści

Foreword

Part I

1. Introduction: Marketization Comparing Contemporary Marketization in the Light of the Past

Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen 

2. Organizing marketization 

Morten Balle Hansen, Andrej Christian Lindholst, Carsten Greve

3. Research design, materials and methods

Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen, Ylva Noren Bretzer, Merethe Dotterud Leiren, Nicola Dempsey

4. Researching marketization in context: Four countries and two local services

Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen, Ylva Noren Bretzer, Merethe Dotterud Leiren, Nicola Dempsey 

Part II 

5. England: In-house, contracted out… or something else?

Nicola Dempsey, Mel Burton, Johanna Selin

6. Sweden: Local marketization 1980-2018, incremental tendencies and deviances

Ylva Noren Bretzer, Bengt Persson, Thomas B. Randrup

7. Denmark: The incremental way toward a deep-seated marketized service delivery 

Andrej Christian Lindholst

 

8. Norway: The reluctant adopter of marketization

Merethe Dotterud Leiren, Julie Runde Krogstad, Ingjerd Solfjeld

9. Economic effects from competitive tendering in Scandinavia and the importance of country context

Andrej Christian Lindholst, Ole Helby Petersen, Kurt Houlberg

10. Patterns and variations of marketization compared

Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen, Ylva Noren Bretzer, Nicola Dempsey, Merethe Dotterud Leiren

Part III 

11. England: Long-term partnership contracting in practice: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London

Nicola Dempsey, Claudia Martinez Velarde, Mel Burton 

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

O autorze

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.

Blurb

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.