Blar i forfatter "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 ... -
Den økte effektivitetsfokuseringen i norske kommuner - motefenomen eller rasjonell nyorientering?
Torsteinsen, Harald (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2000) -
Effects of privatization and competitive tendering on local government
Torsteinsen, Harald (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 1999) -
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 ... -
The meaning of institutional logics for performance assessment in boards of municipal companies
Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Solstad, Elsa; Torsteinsen, Harald (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-11)Municipal companies are hybrid organizations hosting multiple institutional logics operating at the interface between the public and private sector. The authors present a new analytical framework inspired by the institutional logics perspective, which can improve our understanding of how performance assessment in municipal corporate boards develops as they navigate between the interests of the owner, ... -
Om å skynde seg langsomt : hvordan skape oppslutning om organisasjonsreformer i kommunesektoren?
Torsteinsen, Harald (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 1998) -
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 ... -
Providing ’hard’ local government services in a multi-level, multi-actor system
Hansson, Lisa; Torsteinsen, Harald (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019) -
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 ... -
Resultatenhetsmodellen : en kortfatta presentasjon
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Resultatenhetsmodellen i kommunal tjenesteproduksjon : instrument, symbol eller maktmiddel?
Torsteinsen, Harald (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006)Temaet for denne avhandlinga er bruk av resultatenheter i kommunal tjenesteproduksjon. Ordninga har på kort tid oppnådd betydelig popularitet og er i ferd med å spre seg til kommuner over hele landet. Ifølge en NIBR-undersøkelse, basert på Kommunal- og regionaldepartementets organisasjonsdatabase, kan så mange som 43% av norske kommuner ha tatt resultatenhetsmodellen i bruk, i kombinasjon med ... -
Resultatenhetsmodellen som kommunal reformidé
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Spredt og konsentrert : hvordan forene ulike hensyn i organisering av distribuerte FoU-inkubatorer?
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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 ...