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Standing Working Group 7 – Sub-theme 07:

Organizing the Public Sector: Governance and Public Management Reform –
Upsetting the Balance between Government and Public Sector Organizations,
Can We Strive for a New Equilibrium?

 

Convenors:

Christine Teelken
Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
c.teelken@fm.ru.nl

Mike Dent
Staffordshire University, Stafford (UK)
mike.dent@staffs.ac.uk

Louise Fitzgerald
De Montfort University, Leicester (UK)
lfhum@dmu.ac.uk


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Leadership

Jesús Rodríguez-Pomeda, Fernando Casani Fernández de Navarrete and Juan Ignacio Martín Castilla
Voices inside, change and transformation processes in the Spanish universities.

Rosemary Deem and Jenneth Parker
Leading change in semi-autonomous public universities in England: Following government agendas or subverting them?

Dermot O'Reilly and Mike Reed
Leaderism and UK public service reform
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Professionals & Professionalism

Ellen Kuhlmann
Making connections: Organizational and professional governance practices in healthcare

Justin Waring and Graeme Currie
Manage or be managed? The managerialisation of professionalism in the UK National Health Service

Peter Kragh Jespersen
Changing professional autonomy? Quality improvement in health care and the medical professional in Scandinavian countries
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Professionals & Professionalism

Christine Teelken
Managerialism in higher education: How can we maintain our professional autonomy? A comparative study in three countries

Mike Dent, Ian Kirkpatrick and Indy Neogy
Managing doctors in hospitals in England, Denmark, Netherlands and Kaiser Permanente: Some comparative reflections

Mirko Noordegraaf
Boundaries of professionalism, the construction of managerial professionalism in public sectors
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Round Table – Theme: Governance

Nathalie Halgand
How public hospital innovative managerial practices are shaped by New Public Management inspired health care reforms: The case of emerging accounting and control practices in France

Jean-Louis Denis and Damien Constandriopoulos
Transforming public delivery systems: A governance perspective

Judy Johnston and Brian Brewer
Human rights, employment equity and anti-discrimination reforms: Are social justice institutions in Australia and Hong Kong 'good' governance institutions, or upset?

Annegrete Juul Nielsen
Opting for the manageable whole? Mixing traditional and governance type of steering mechanisms in a reformed Danish healthcare sector

Haldor Byrkjeflot
From governance to government in the Norwegian hospital sector

Louise Fitzgerald, Ewan Ferlie, Gerry McGivern, David Buchanan and Juan Baeza
Change agency: Bridging the chasms & working with the Tectonic Movements in organizations
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Round Table

Theme: HRM & Change

Ian Kirkpatrick, Kim Hoque, Chris Lonsdale, Alex de Ruyter and Neil Wolfenden
Extending the frontier of HR outsourcing: Vendor neutral systems and the changing management of agency work in UK local government

Nicolette van Gestel and Daniel Nyberg
Institutional change and sense-making in organizations

Theme: Public versus Private

Daniela Cristofoli and Alex Turrini (Giuseppe Soda)
[Provisional title] Deadlock in Venice: Exploring the art of compromise in participatory decision making processes

Jürgen Enders
The public, the private and the good in higher education

Bertrand Pauget
The ambiguity of cooperation: The case of a French health care network
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
Performances & Quality

S. de Muzere, K. Verhoest and Geert Bouckaert
Quality management in public sector organizations: The role of managerial autonomy and organizational culture

Mairi Watson
Upsetting organisations: Broken performance promises and identity crises in prisons

Bente Bjørnholt and Carsten Frank Jørgensen
Translating performance measurement: An explorative case study of three public sectors
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Public Sector Reform/NPM

Rik van Berkel
Transforming welfare states, transforming public service organizations

Kasper Ostrowski and Anders Drejer
Managing the setup and the upset, experiencing the roller coaster ride of public sector reform in Denmark from somewhere inside

Belinda Luke, Martie-Louise Verreyne and Kate Kearins
The risks and returns of New Public Management

 

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