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100			_aBrorström, Sara and Norbäck, Maria _926598
245			_a‘Keeping politicians at arm’s length’: How managers in a collaborative organization deal with the administration–politics interface
260			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
300			_a86(4), Dec, 2020: p.657-672
520			_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
650			_aCollaborative organizations, Politics–administration dichotomy, Public managers, Purple zone _925064
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
906			_aPOLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
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