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The autonomy-control balance in Flemish public arm’s length agencies

Bram Verschuere (UGent)
(2007) Public Management Review. 9(1). p.107-133
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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Verschuere B. The autonomy-control balance in Flemish public arm’s length agencies. Public Management Review. 2007;9(1):107–33.
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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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  journal      = {{Public Management Review}},
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  title        = {{The autonomy-control balance in Flemish public arm’s length agencies}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/14719030601181266}},
  volume       = {{9}},
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