Searching for managerial discretion: how public managers engage managerialism as a rationalization for increased latitude of action

References

• Aberbach, J. D., and T. Christensen. 2005. “Citizens and Consumers.” Public Management Review 7 (2): 225–245. doi:10.1080/14719030500091319.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Aberbach, J. D., R. D. Putnam, and B. A. Rockman. 1981. Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P.
   Google Scholar
• Aberbach, J. D., and B. A. Rockman. 1988. “Mandates or Mandarins? Control and Discretion in the Modern Administrative State.” Public Administration Review 48 (2): 606–612. doi:10.2307/975761.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Aberbach, J. D., and B. A. Rockman. 1994. “Civil Servants and Policymakers: Neutral or Responsive Competence?” Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration 7 (4): 461–469. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1994.tb00192.x.
   Google Scholar
• Aberbach, J. D., and B. A. Rockman. 2000. In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
   Google Scholar
• Alvesson, M. 2003. “Beyond Neopositivists, Romantics, and Localists: A Reflexive Approach to Interviews in Organizational Research.” The Academy of Management Review 28 (1): 13–33.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Andersson, F., T. Bergström, L. Bringselius, T. S. Margareta Dackehag, S. M. Karlsson, and G. Paulsson. 2011. “Organisatoriska Vägval: En Studie Av Försäkringskassans Förändringsarbete.” Nordiska Organisasjonsstudier 13 (4): 53–76.
   Google Scholar
• Ansell, C., and A. Gash. 2008. “Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 18 (4): 543–571. doi:10.1093/jopart/mum032.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arnaboldi, M., I. Lapsley, and I. Steccolini. 2015. “Performance Management in the Public Sector: The Ultimate Challenge.” Financial Accountability & Management 31 (1): 1–22. doi:10.1111/faam.12049.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arnold, G. 2013. “Street-Level Policy Entrepreneurship.” Public Management Review 17 (3): 307–327. doi:10.1080/14719037.2013.806577.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brodkin, E. Z. 1997. “Inside the Welfare Contract: Discretion and Accountability in State Welfare Administration.” The Social Service Review 71 (1): 1–33. doi:10.1086/604228.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brodkin, E. Z. 2011. “Policy Work: Streel-Level Organizations Under New Managerialism.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 21: i253–i277. doi:10.1093/jopart/muq093.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bryson, J. M., B. C. Crosby, and L. Bloomberg. 2014. “Public Value Governance: Moving beyond Traditional Public Administration and the New Public Management.” Public Administration Review 74 (4): 445–456. doi:10.1111/puar.12238.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Clarke, J., S. Gewirtz, and M. Eugene. 2000b. “Reinventing the Welfare State.” In New Managerialism, New Welfare? edited by J. Clarke, S. Gewirtz, and M. Eugene. London: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Clarke, J., S. Gewirtz, and E. McLaughlin, eds. 2000a. New Managerialism, New Welfare? London: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Clarke, J., and J. Newman. 1997. The Managerial State: Power, Politics and Ideology in the Remaking of Social Welfare. London: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Crew, M. A., and P. R. Kleindorfer. 1979. “Managerial Discretion and Public Utility Regulation.” Southern Economic Journal 45 (3): 696. doi:10.2307/1057470.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crossland, C., and D. C. Hambrick. 2011. “Differences in Managerial Discretion across Countries: How Nation-Level Institutions Affect the Degree to Which CEOs Matter.” Strategic Management Journal 32 (8): 797–819. doi:10.1002/smj.913.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Czarniawska, B. 2008. “Organizing: How to Study It and How to Write about It.” Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal 3 (1): 4–20. doi:10.1108/17465640810870364.
   Google Scholar
• Czarniawska, B., ed. 2016. A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
   Google Scholar
• Deem, R., and K. J. Brehony. 2005. “Management as Ideology: The Case of ‘New Managerialism’ in Higher Education.” Oxford Review of Education 31 (2): 217–235. doi:10.1080/03054980500117827.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Denhardt, R. B., and J. V. Denhardt. 2000. “The New Public Service: Serving Rather than Steering.” Public Administration Review 60 (6): 549–559. doi:10.1111/0033-3352.00117.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Denhardt, R. B., and J. V. Denhardt. 2001. “The New Public Service: Putting Democracy First.” National Civic Review 90 (4): 391–400. doi:10.1002/ncr.90410.
   Google Scholar
• Drucker, P. F. 1954. The Practice of Management. New York: Harper & Brothers.
   Google Scholar
• Dunleavy, P., and C. Hood. 1994. “From Old Public Administration to New Public Management.” Public Money & Management 14 (3): 9–16. doi:10.1080/09540969409387823.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dunleavy, P., H. Margetts, S. Bastow, and J. Tinkler. 2006. “New Public Management is Dead-Long Live Digital-Era Governance.” Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory 16 (3): 467. doi:10.1093/jopart/mui057.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dunn, W. N., and D. Y. Miller. 2007. “A Critique of the New Public Management and the Neo-Weberian State: Advancing a Critical Theory of Administrative Reform.” Public Organization Review 7 (4): 345–358. doi:10.1007/s11115-007-0042-3.
   Google Scholar
• Eagleton, T. 1991. Ideology: An Introduction. London: Verso.
   Google Scholar
• Evans, T., and J. Harris. 2004. “Street-Level Bureaucracy, Social Work and the (Exaggerated) Death of Discretion.” British Journal of Social Work 34 (6): 871–895. doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch106.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Finkelstein, S., and M. A. Peteraf. 2007. “Managerial Activities: A Missing Link in Managerial Discretion Theory.” Strategic Organization 5 (3): 237–248. doi:10.1177/1476127007079975.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frederickson, H. G. 1999a. “Ethics and the New Managerialism.” Public Administration & Management 4 (2): 299–324.
   Google Scholar
• Frederickson, H. G. 1999b. “The Repositioning of American Public Administration.” Political Science and Politics 32 (4): 701–711. doi:10.1017/S1049096500056547.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frederickson, H. G., K. B. Smith, C. W. Larimer, and M. J. Licari. 2012. The Public Administration Theory Primer. 2nd ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
   Google Scholar
• Geertz, C. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Gewirtz, S., and S. Ball. 2000. “From ‘Welfarism’ to ‘New Managerialism’: Shifting Discourses of School Headship in the Education Marketplace.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 21 (3): 253–268.
   Google Scholar
• Giddens, A. 1984. The Constitution of Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gold, R. L. 1958. “Roles in Sociological Fieldwork.” Social Forces 36: 217–223. doi:10.2307/2573808.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gore, A. 1993. From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government that Works Better and Costs Less, Report from the National Performance Review. Washington: US Government.
   Google Scholar
• Gore, A. 1994. Creating a Government that Works Better & Costs Less. Summit, NJ: Silicon Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hambrick, D. C., and E. Abrahamson. 1995. “Assessing Managerial Discretion across Industries: A Multimethod Approach.” Academy of Management Journal 38 (5): 1427–1441. doi:10.2307/256864.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hambrick, D. C., and S. Finkelstein. 1987. “Managerial Discretion: A Bridge between Polar Views of Organizational Outcomes.” In Research in Organizational Behaviour, edited by B. M. Staw and L. L. Cummings. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hood, C. 1991. “A Public Management for All Seasons?” Public Administration 6 (3): 3–19. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00779.x.
   Google Scholar
• Hood, C. 1995. “The ”New Public Management” in the 1980s: Variations on a Theme.” Accounting, Organizations and Society 20 (2–3): 93–110. doi:10.1016/0361-3682(93)E0001-W.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hood, C., and R. Dixon. 2015. A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?: Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hood, C., and G. Peters. 2004. “The Middle Aging of New Public Management: Into the Age of Paradox?” Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory 14 (3): 267–282. doi:10.1093/jopart/muh019.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hupe, P., and A. Buffat. 2014. “A Public Service Gap: Capturing Contexts in a Comparative Approach of Street-Level Bureaucracy.” Public Management Review 16 (4): 548–569. doi:10.1080/14719037.2013.854401.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kaboolian, L. 1998. “The New Public Management: Challenging the Boundaries of the Management vs. Administration Debate.” Public Administration Review 58 (3): 189–193. doi:10.2307/976558.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Karlsson, T. S. 2014. Manager and Civil Servant: Exploring Actors’ Taken-For-Granted Assumptions in Public Administration. Lund: Lund University.
   Google Scholar
• Kvale, S. 1996. Interviews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
   Google Scholar
• Lægreid, P., and L. H. Rykkja. 2015. “Hybrid Collaborative Arrangements: The Welfare Administration in Norway – between Hierarchy and Network.” Public Management Review 17 (7): 960–980. doi:10.1080/14719037.2015.1029349.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lapsley, I. 2008. “The NPM Agenda: Back to the Future.” Financial Accountability & Management 24 (1): 77–96. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0408.2008.00444.x.
   Google Scholar
• Lapsley, I. 2009. “New Public Management: The Cruellest Invention of the Human Spirit?” A Journal of Accounting, Finance and Business Studies 45 (1): 1–21.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lapsley, I., and H. Knutsson, eds. 2017. Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Lapsley, I. and P. Skærbæk. 2012. “Why the Public Sector Matters.” Financial Accountability & Management 28 (4): 355–358. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0408.2012.00550.x.
   Google Scholar
• Lipsky, M. 2010 [1980]. Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services. New York: Russel Sage Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Maesschalck, J. 2004. “The Impact of New Public Management Reforms on Public Servants’ Ethics: Towards a Theory.” Public Administration 82 (2): 465–489. doi:10.1111/padm.2004.82.issue-2.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Markóva, I., P. Linell, M. Grossen, and A. S. Orvig. 2007. Dialogue in Focus Groups: Exploring Socially Shared Knowledge. London: Equinox Publishing.
   Google Scholar
• Megginson, W. L., and J. M. Netter. 2001. “From State to Market: A Survey of Empirical Studies on Privatization.” Journal of Economic Literature 39 (2): 321–389. doi:10.1257/jel.39.2.321.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Migue, J.-L., and G. Belanger. 1974. “Towards a General Theory of Managerial Discretion.” Public Choice 17 (27): 27. doi:10.1007/BF01718995.
   Google Scholar
• Milward, B. H., K. G. Provan, and B. A. Else. 1993. “What Does the ”Hollow State” Look Like?” In Public Management: The State of the Art, edited by B. Bozeman, 309–322. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
   Google Scholar
• Mintzberg, H. 1971. “Managerial Work: Analysis from Observation.” Management Science 18 (2): 97–110. doi:10.1287/mnsc.18.2.B97.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mouritsen, P. E., and J. Svara. 2002. Leadership at the Apex: Politicians and Administrators in Western Local Governments. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
   Google Scholar
• Osborne, D., and T. Gaebler. 1992. Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector. New York: Plume.
   Google Scholar
• Osborne, S. 2006. “The New Public Governance?” Public Management Review 8 (3): 377–387. doi:10.1080/14719030600853022.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Osborne, S. 2010. “Delivering Public Services: Time for a New Theory?” Public Management Review 12 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1080/14719030903495232.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Otley, D. T. 1980. “The Contingency Theory of Management Accounting: Achievement and Prognosis.” Accounting, Organizations and Society 5: 413–428. doi:10.1016/0361-3682(80)90040-9.
   Google Scholar
• Pollitt, C. 1993. Managerialism and the Public Services: Cuts or Cultural Change in the 1990s? 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell.
   Google Scholar
• Pollitt, C. 2000. “Is the Emperor in His Underwear? An Analysis of the Impacts of Public Management Reform.” Public Management 2 (2): 181–199.
   Google Scholar
• Pollitt, C. 2016. “Managerialism Redux?” Financial Accountability & Management 32 (4): 429–447. doi:10.1111/faam.12094.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pollitt, C., and G. Bouckaert. 2000. Public Management Reform. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Pollitt, C., and G. Bouckaert. 2011. Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis – New Public Management, Governance, and the Neo-Weberian State. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Power, M. 1997. The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Rhodes, R. A. W. 1994. “The Hollowing Out of the State: The Changing Nature of the Public Service in Britain.” The Political Quarterly 65 (2): 138–151. doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.1994.tb00441.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rhodes, R. A. W. 2007. “Understanding Governance: Ten Years On.” Organization Studies 28 (8): 1243–1264. doi:10.1177/0170840607076586.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Riccucci, N. M. 2001. “The “Old” Public Management versus the “New” Public Management: Where Does Public Administration Fit In?” Public Administration Review 61 (2): 172–175. doi:10.1111/0033-3352.00019.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rotter, J. B. 1966. “Generalized Expectancies for Internal versus External Control of Reinforcements.” Psychological Monographs 80 (1, Whole No. 609): 1–28. doi:10.1037/h0092976.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Sandfort, J. R. 2000. “Moving beyond Discretion and Outcomes: Examining Public Management from the Front Lines of the Welfare System.” Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory 10 (4): 729. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a024289.
   Google Scholar
• Sørensen, E., and J. Torfing. 2011. “Enhancing Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector.” Administration & Society 43 (8): 842–868. doi:10.1177/0095399711418768.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Speklé, R. F., and H. M. Frank Verbeeten. 2014. “The Use of Performance Measurement Systems in the Public Sector: Effects on Performance.” Management Accounting Research 25 (2): 131–146. doi:10.1016/j.mar.2013.07.004.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Svara, J. H. 2006a. “Introduction: Politicians and Administrators in the Political Process: A Review of Themes and Issues in the Literature.” International Journal of Public Administration 29 (12): 953–976. doi:10.1080/01900690600854555.
   Google Scholar
• Svara, J. H. 2006b. “The Search for Meaning in Political-Administrative Relations in Local Government.” International Journal of Public Administration 29 (12): 1065–1090. doi:10.1080/01900690600854704.
   Google Scholar
• Tummers, L. 2012. “Policy Alienation of Public Professionals: The Construct and Its Measurement.” Public Administration Review 72 (4): 516–525. doi:10.1111/puar.2012.72.issue-4.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tummers, L., and V. Bekkers. 2014. “Policy Implementation, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and the Importance of Discretion.” Public Management Review 16 (4): 527–547. doi:10.1080/14719037.2013.841978.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Verhoest, K. B., G. Peters, G. Bouckaert, and B. Verschuere. 2004. “The Study of Organisational Autonomy: A Conceptual Review.” Public Administration & Development 24 (2): 101–118. doi:10.1002/pad.316.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wangrow, D. B., D. J. Schepker, and V. L. Barker III. 2015. “Managerial Discretion: An Empirical Review and Focus on Future Research Directions.” Journal of Management 41 (1): 99–135. doi:10.1177/0149206314554214.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Williamson, O. E. 1963. “Managerial Discretion and Business Behavior.” American Economic Review 53 (5): 1032.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wynen, J., and K. Verhoest. 2013. “Do NPM-Type Reforms Lead to a Cultural Revolution within Public Sector Organizations?” Public Management Review 17 (3): 356–379. doi:10.1080/14719037.2013.841459.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wynen, J., K. Verhoest, E. Ongaro, and S. van Thiel, Cobra network in cooperation with the 2014. 2014. Innovation-Oriented Culture in the Public Sector: Do Managerial Autonomy and Result Control Lead to Innovation? Public Management Review 16 (1): 45–66. doi:10.1080/14719037.2013.790273.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar