01544nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100005000060245014400110260005400254300003200308520073300340650010601073773005301179906002801232942000701260952010701267  c517390d517390210712b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBrorström, Sara and Norbäck, Maria926598  a‘Keeping politicians at arm’s length’: How managers in a collaborative organization deal with the administration–politics interface  aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences    a86(4), Dec, 2020: p.657-672  aThis study examines the relationship between politicians and managers in a Swedish city. The context is a collaborative organization responsible for drafting and implementing the vision and strategies for a city organization, and for future development of the downtown river area. The article examines the efforts of city managers to manage the relationship with city politicians. We illustrate how the managers strive to manage an appropriate ‘arm’s-length’ relationship with the politicians by navigating in and out of the ‘purple zone’ of the politics–management interface, and how the context of collaborative organizations seems to increase the amount of time public managers spend in this zone. – Reproduced   aCollaborative organizations, Politics–administration dichotomy, Public managers, Purple zone925064  aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences   aPOLITICS AND GOVERNMENT  cAR  00102ddc40709391456aIIPAbIIPAd2021-07-12h86(4), Dec, 2020: p.657-672pAR124729r2021-07-12yAR