000			01798nam a2200181Ia 4500
008			181130s2018 xx 000 0 und d
100			_aKleizen, Bjorn
245			_aStructural reform histories and perceptions of organizationalautonomy: _bDo senior managers perceive less strategic policy autonomy when faced with frequent and intense restructuring?
260			_c2018
300			_ap.349-367.
520			_aThrough recurrent structural reform programmes governments are on a quest to design public organizations that will stand the test of their environment. One of the approaches to uncertain or sensitive issues has been to create various forms of (semi?)autonomous organizations with substantial strategic discretion. However, while governments repeatedly experiment with designs, one might simultaneously expect that such interference through repeated structural change may limit the degree of strategic policy autonomy perceived by senior managers. More specifically, we propose that intense structural reforms may inadvertently reduce strategic policy autonomy perceptions through two mechanisms. First, intense sequences of structural reforms may lead to perceptions of relatively controlling political principals. Second, they may reduce an organization's ability to accrue resources beneficial to autonomy, such as a strong internal culture, network embeddedness and expertise. Results indicate that strategic policy autonomy perceptions will indeed be detrimentally affected for organizations that experience intense sequences of structural reform. - Reproduced.
650			_aNew public management
650			_aPublic sector
650			_aStructural adjustment
700			_aVerhoest, Koen and Wynen, Jan
773			_aPublic Administration
906			_aStructural adjustment
999			_c506875 _d506875