The autonomy-control balance in Flemish public arm’s length agencies
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- Bram Verschuere (UGent)
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- Abstract
- This article aims at contributing to the study of arm's length agencies by focusing on what are considered to be core concepts of agencification: autonomy and control of public agencies. The balance between autonomy and control is studied for a set of Flemish public agencies, from three angles: (1) To what extent can we observe the practitioner model of disaggregation, managerial freedom and results based control in Flanders?; (2) Which autonomy-control balances do we find empirically? Departing from two extreme cases - control loss and false autonomy - I conclude that there is a lot of variation amongst Flemish public agencies as to their autonomy-control balances; and (3) Based on a third set of empirical conclusions, I try to broaden the normative discussion on the accountability debate that surrounds arm's length agencies, by proposing a broader concept of steering and control. I conclude the article by proposing four directions for future research on this specific topic of agency research.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-682591
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- Verschuere, Bram. “The Autonomy-Control Balance in Flemish Public Arm’s Length Agencies.” Public Management Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 2007, pp. 107–33, doi:10.1080/14719030601181266.
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- Verschuere, B. (2007). The autonomy-control balance in Flemish public arm’s length agencies. Public Management Review, 9(1), 107–133. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719030601181266
- Chicago author-date
- Verschuere, Bram. 2007. “The Autonomy-Control Balance in Flemish Public Arm’s Length Agencies.” Public Management Review 9 (1): 107–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719030601181266.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Verschuere, Bram. 2007. “The Autonomy-Control Balance in Flemish Public Arm’s Length Agencies.” Public Management Review 9 (1): 107–133. doi:10.1080/14719030601181266.
- Vancouver
- 1.Verschuere B. The autonomy-control balance in Flemish public arm’s length agencies. Public Management Review. 2007;9(1):107–33.
- IEEE
- [1]B. Verschuere, “The autonomy-control balance in Flemish public arm’s length agencies,” Public Management Review, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 107–133, 2007.
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