Blar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (samfunnsvitenskap) "Torsteinsen, Harald"

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    • Agencies and transparency in Norwegian local government 

      Torsteinsen, Harald; Bjørnå, Hilde (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The NPM portfolio offers several solutions to improve organisational performance and . One of the most crucial of them is to split up integrated organisations into more autonomous operational units. The idea of arm’s length government is gaining ground in Norwegian local government and has materialised itself through the proliferation of agencies, especially in the shape of different forms of local ...

    • Corporatization in local government : promoting cultural differentiation and hybridity? 

      Torsteinsen, Harald; Berge, Dag Magne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-06)
      Corporatization implies disintegration of public authority, leading to not only structural but also cultural differentiation of government, transforming it into a fragmented and hybrid governance system consisting of an authority and multiple autonomous or semi-autonomous operators. This article addresses corporatization at the local government level in Norway, exploring if and how this change in ...

    • Corporatization in local government: Promoting cultural differentiation and hybridity? 

      Berge, Dag Magne; Torsteinsen, Harald (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-06)
      Corporatization implies disintegration of public authority, leading to not only structural but also cultural differentiation of government, transforming it into a fragmented and hybrid governance system consisting of an authority and multiple autonomous or semi-autonomous operators. This article addresses corporatization at the local government level in Norway, exploring if and how this change ...

    • Debate: Corporatization in local government - the need for a comparative and multi-disciplinary research approach 

      Torsteinsen, Harald (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-28)
      During the past 20–30 years, scholars from different academic disciplines, as well as practitioners and local politicians, have observed a marked growth in the number of municipally-owned companies (MOCs) in local government service provision (Grossi & Reichard, 2008; Aars & Ringkjøb, 2011; Erlingsson, Fogelgren, Olsson, Thomasson, & Öhrvall, 2015; Ferry, Andrews, Skelcher, & Wegorowski, 2018). This ...

    • Governance challenges of different institutional logics and modes of organising: a Norwegian case study of municipal water supply 

      Berge, Dag Magne; Torsteinsen, Harald (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-20)
      This article explores how agencification, in terms of increasing arm's length governance, may influence governance control with municipal service-provision if the principal and the agent develop different institutional logics. The basic expectation is that structural separation between principal and agent will challenge the principal’s control of the agent, and that this challenge will be accentuated ...

    • Organizational innovations of municipal Waste management in Finland and Norway 

      Valkama, Pekka; Kettunen, Pekka; Torsteinsen, Harald (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2019)
      This empirical study compares the public policies of municipal waste management in Finland and Norway by analyzing organizational innovations of municipal waste management services in order to identify contributing factors of the organizational evolution and evaluate associated stakeholder concerns or implications. Our findings demonstrate that municipal waste management services have been extensively ...

    • Promoting and Protecting Values through Leadership Agency: Experiences from Disaggregation and Autonomisation of Waste Management 

      Andersen, Ole Johan; Torsteinsen, Harald (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Disaggregation and autonomisation of public service procurement have been at the cutting edge for the last two to three decades, not least due to the importance that reform programmes inspired by New Public Management (NPM) have acquired. This development has led to widespread corporatisation and increasing emphasis on leadership and managerial freedom. In this article, we explore the role of ...

    • Re-politicisation as post-NPM response? Municipal companies in a Norwegian context 

      Moldenæs, Turid; Torsteinsen, Harald (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-17)
      This is an exploratory study of re-politicisation of municipal companies in one Norwegian municipality. Unlike re-municipalisation, which seems to imply the reversal of privatisation and out-contracting, and the reinstitution of municipal ownership, the Norwegian case demonstrates a continued adherence to the provision of certain public services through municipal companies. However, our study reveals ...

    • Tildelingskontoret – en organisatorisk innovasjon i norske kommuner? 

      Gjerde, Ingunn; Torsteinsen, Harald; Aarseth, Turid (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2016)
      I løpet av det siste tiåret har mange norske kommuner opprettet tildelingskontor for vurdering av behov for og tildeling av individuelle helse- og sosialtjenester. I dette kapitlet ser vi på etablering av tildelingskontor som en kommunal innovasjon. Kontorene befinner seg i et spenningsfelt mellom ulike styringsparadigmer, noe som både har betydning for hvilke koordineringsmekanismer som tas i ...