01657pab a2200193 454500 180718b2007 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Christensen, Tom Reform of the employment and welfare administrations - the challenges of coordinating diverse public organizations 2007 p.389-408. Sep This article addresses one of the most comprehensive structural reforms in recent Norwegian administrative history: a merger of the employment and national insurance administrations, combined with more formal collaboration with the local government social services administration. The reform can be seen as a `whole-of-government' initiative intended to increase the coordinative capacity of government to address `wicked problems' cutting across existing policy areas and government levels in a multi-level governance system. This article examines the following questions: First, what characterizes the organizational thinking related to this reform? Second, how can we understand the reform process in terms of a transformative perspective combining instrumental, cultural and environmental features? Third, what are the potential effects and implications of the new structure for political control and institutional autonomy, for relations between central and local administrations, and for the main goals stated? The theory base for the analyses is a transformative approach. - Reproduced. Public administration Laegreid, Per Fimreite, Anne Lise International Review of Administrative Sciences N 76292 76292 76292 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 73, Issue no: 3 AR76752 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR