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Sub-theme 11

Public Management and Private Organizations: Strange Couplings or Exotic Rhythms

in RIO?


Convenors:

Christine Teelken
Radboud University Nijmegen, NL

 
Mike Dent
Staffordshire University/Stafford, UK
Nicolette van Gestel
Radboud University Nijmegen, NL

 
Ewan Ferlie
Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Louise Fitzgerald
De Montfort University/Leicester, UK


Our suggestion is that the discussant presents the outline of the paper and raises a number of key questions in 10 minutes. Consequently, the author of the paper has 10 minutes to reply, followed by 10 minutes of general discussion. We have used the name of the first author as discussant, but in the case of the presence of two or more authors, the role of discussant can of course be taken over by one of the others.
We look forward to a most promising sub-theme session!


 

Session I: Thursday, July 5 – 11:00–12:30
Gender and Management

Room: HS 2.18 (A), Building: UZA I

Chair: Christine Teelken

Brief introduction into the sub-theme

Bente Bjønholt and Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen
New public management: A gendered institution? Management styles and sex in contracts
Discussant: Gerry Mcgivern

Elisabeth Berg, John Chandler and Jim Barry
Managing in the middle: Social work and higher education in Sweden and England
Discussant: Juan I. Baeza
 

Session II: Thursday, July 5 – 14:00–15:30
Managers and Professionals

Room: HS 2.18 (A), Building: UZA I

Chair: Louise Fitzgerald

Karen Lane, Kerreen Reiger and Margaret Peters
Changing the dance steps in Australian maternity hospitals
Discussant: Marie-Pascale Pomey

Mike Dent, Peter Kragh Jespersen, Ian Kirkpatrick and I. Neogy
Dancing to different rhytms: Professional strategies, management reform and change in the Danish and UK healthcare systems
Discussant: Patricia Medonca

Ailsa Kolsaker
Dancing around the Maypole: Managerialism in English universities
Discussant: Sue Dopson
 

Session III: Friday, July 6 – 9:00–10:30
New Models of Governance

Room: HS 2.18 (A), Building: UZA I

Chair: Ewan Ferlie

Marie-Pascale Pomey, Jean-Louis Denis, François Champagne, Gyslaine Tré and Johanne Préval
The pluralistic view of bovernance within healthcare organizations
Discussant: Mario Walther

Jean-Patrick Villeneuve and Martial Pasquier
Dancing styles change with each partner. Do you know yours?
Discussant: Karen Lane
 

Session IV: Friday, July 6 – 11:00–12:30
– Parallel Sessions –

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Group I – Neo-institutionalism

Chair: Nicolette van Gestel

Room: HS 2.18 (A), Building: UZA I

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Christine Teelken
The intricate implementation of performance measurement systems
Discussant: Mairi Watson

Daniela Cristofoli, Greta Nasi, Alex Turrini and Giovanni Valotti
Dancing among institutional, economic and political pressure
Discussant: Gabriele Jacobs

Kjersti Eeg Kudal and Kirstin Woll
Micro consequences of macro ideas in energy and health
Discussant: Francesca Frosini

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Group II – Public-Private Relations and Partnerships

Chair: Mike Dent

– Room: S. 08 (A), Building: UZA I –

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D.J.W.B. Uiterwijk, Kappert and Paul C. van Fenema
An institutional perspective on public-private networks
Discussant: Jean-Patrick Villeneuve

Erik-Hans Klijn, Jurian Edelenbos, Michiel Kort and Mark van Twist
Choices in management dilemmas
Discussant: Louise Fitzgerald

Mairi Watson
Public management and private organisations: An analysis of the impact of the NPM context on managerial sensemaking …
Discussant: Aoife McDermott
 

Session V: Friday, July 6 – 13:45–15:15
– Parallel Sessions –

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Group I – Accountability and Quality of Services

Chair: Christine Teelken

Room: HS 2.18 (A), Building: UZA I

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Raffaella Valsecchi
Teleworking and the public sector: Will Italian public management learn the new steps?
Discussant: Daniela Cristofoli

Rachael Addicott and Francesca Frosini
Democratic citizen participation through foundation trusts
Discussants: Brian Brewer and Judy Johnston

Mario Walther and Kuno Schedler
Customer relationship management in local government call centers
Discussant: D.J.W.B. Uiterwijk

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Group II – Public-Private Relations and Partnerships

Chair: Ewan Ferlie

– Room: S. 08 (A), Building: UZA I –

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Nicolette van Gestel
After privatization. Public management of private employment services
Discussant: Kjersti Eeg Skudal

Brian Brewer and Judy Johnston
Taking public-private steps in West Kowloon, Hong Kong and East Darling Harbour
Discussant: Raffaella Valsecchi

Sue Dopson and Gerry McGivern
Lost in translation? Innovation in Oxbridge Genetics Knowledge Park
Discussant: Lavinia Bifulco
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 7 – 9:00–10:30
Managerialism and NPM

Room: HS 2.18 (A), Building: UZA I

Chair: Louise Fitzgerald

Patricia Mendonça and Mario Aquino Alves
Aids/HIV program in Brazil and the dances among social activist and managerialism
Discussant: Ailsa Kolsaker

Juan I. Baeza, Gerry Mcgivern and Louise Fitzgerald
The mediating role of health care practitioners: Enablers and disablers of change
Discussant: Barnas Nothnagel

Lavinia Bifulco, Massimo Bricocoli and Raffaele Monteleone
New public management, public health and democracy: Conceptual exploration and a study case
Discussant: Nicolette van Gestel
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 7 – 11:00–12:30
Organisational Change

Room: HS 2.18 (A), Building: UZA I

Chair: Mike Dent

Aiofe McDermott and Mary A. Keating
Dancing the tango: Formal processes and informal actions in harnessing bottom-up change in Irish hospitals
Discussant: Elisabeth Berg

Gabriele Jacobs, Anne E. Keegan, Jochen Christe-Zeyse and László Pólos
When dancers start counting their steps: What people really learn on change projects
Discussant: Mark van Twist

Barnas Nothnagel
Dancing on thin ice – Public management reform activating organizational inertia?
Discussant: Bente Bjørnholt

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Setting the tone of the discussant (with thanks to the AoM):

  • Please provide a very brief summary of the paper to be discussed.
  • Keep your comments constructive.
  • Pay attention to the strength of a manuscript as well as the weaknesses.
  • Concerning the weaknesses: Provide specific guidance for how to address the limitations. Specificity in your comments increases the likeliness of authors to benefit from your efforts. If the problems you identify cannot be fixed, try to provide the authors with constructive ideas for improvement, in further developing their research.
  • Please be open minded concerning different theoretical frameworks and different disciplinary backgrounds. Try to judge papers on how well they stimulate thinking and discussion.