Ahlbäck Öberg, Shirin

Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.

Widmalm, Sten

Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.

2016 (Svenska)Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, ISSN 0039-0747, Vol. 118, nr 1, s. 7-17

Lund, 2016. Vol. 118, nr 1, s. 7-17

Ahlbäck Öberg, Shirin

Bull, Thomas

Hasselberg, Ylva

Stenlås, Niklas

2016 (Engelska)Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, ISSN 0039-0747, Vol. 118, nr 1, s. 93-126

Abstract [en]

The purpose of this article is to analyse the effects of New Public Management (NPM) reforms on three specific professional groups. From this investigation it is clear that the assumptions inherent in the NPM reforms have resulted in a clear breach of what we theoretically refer to as the professional contract between the state and the professions. We show in this analysis that our studied professional groups have lost central aspects of their professional autonomy. We problematize the perception that an ever-increasing demand for steering and control of professionals within the public sector should be perceived as something exclusively good. In addition to the costs of monitoring, the centrally important paradox of accountability should be taken into consideration, i.e. responsible interpretation and application of external accountability demands rest on the cultivation of the virtues that support good administrative judgement, the type of judgement that is threatened by the control-schemes presented in this article.

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Lund, 2016. Vol. 118, nr 1, s. 93-126

Ahlbäck Öberg, Shirin

Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.

Bringselius, Louise

Lunds universitet.

2015 (Engelska)Ingår i: European Political Science Review, ISSN 1755-7739, E-ISSN 1755-7747, Vol. 7, nr 4, s. 499-523

Abstract [en]

With New Public Management came the idea that public organizations should be led by professional managers, rather than by professionals. This has been referred to as new managerialism. This article explores how new managerialism may affect professional autonomy in a public organization that enjoys a high – and constitutionally protected – degree of organizational autonomy. A framework distinguishing between organizational and occupational professionalism is adopted, in a 10-year case study of the Swedish National Audit Office (SNAO). The study shows how the autonomy of professionals at the SNAO was highly restricted, while management control systems were continuously expanded. At the same time, SNAO performance has been reduced. For example, the SNAO has been criticized for its high overhead costs. The study presented in this article, shows the complex interplay between professionalism, new managerialism, and organizational performance. Based on the findings from this study, the article maintains that it is equally important to consider how autonomy is distributed within agencies, as it is to consider how autonomy is distributed between the political sphere and the administration, when trying to explain organizational performance.

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Vol. 7, nr 4, s. 499-523

Ahlbäck Öberg, Shirin

Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.

Ingår i: Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Uppsala universitet 50 år, 1964–2014 / [ed] Mattias Bolkéus Blom och Lars Magnusson, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2014, s. 123-13

Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2014. s. 123-134

Skrifter rörande Uppsala universitet. C, Organisation och historia, ISSN 0502-7454 ; 103

Sundström, Göran

Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.2019 (Svenska)Ingår i: Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift, ISSN 0029-1285, Vol. 96, nr 1, s. 57-72

Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published

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2019. Vol. 96, nr 1, s. 57-72

Nationell ämneskategori

Studier av offentlig förvaltning

Forskningsämne

statsvetenskap

Identifikatorer

URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-176962OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-176962DiVA, id: diva2:1377467

Karlsson, Rikard

Mittuniversitetet, Fakulteten för humanvetenskap, Institutionen för ekonomi, geografi, juridik och turism.(RCR)2020 (Svenska)

Ingår i: Förvaltningsrättslig Tidskrift, ISSN 0015-8585, nr 1, s. 51-80

Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published

Abstract [sv]

Den ökade digitaliseringen av samhället påverkar även den offentliga förvaltningen. Syftet med digitaliseringen av offentlig sektor är inte sällan att göra den mer tillgänglig och effektiv, till exempel genom att öka graden av automation vid ärendehandläggning och beslutsfattande. I syfte att effektivisera en ärendeprocess kan en myndighet insamla uppgifter från andra myndigheter och enskilda och på grundval av dessa uppgifter fatta automatiserade beslut. Vid automatiserade beslut tar ingen enskild befattningshavare aktivt del i beslutsfattandet. Ett automatiserat beslut kan föregås av profilering. Profilering skulle kunna beskrivas som ett förfarande som bygger på en serie statistiska slutsatser. Profilering används ofta för att göra förutsägelser om personer, genom att med hjälp av uppgifter från olika källor sluta sig till något om en enskild person grundat på statistiskt likartade kvaliteter hos andra personer. Automatiserat beslutsfattande, med eller utan profilering, kommer med all sannolikhet att få en ökad betydelse inom den offentliga förvaltningen. Syftet med denna artikel är att utreda och analysera de rättsliga förutsättningarna för statliga förvaltningsmyndigheter att fatta automatiserade beslut som inbegriper profilering. En fråga som diskuteras i artikeln är huruvida förvaltningslagen (2017:900) lever upp till dataskyddsförordningens krav på lämpliga skyddsåtgärder.

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Stockholm, 2020. nr 1, s. 51-80

Nyckelord [sv]

Digitalisering, automatiserade beslut, profilering, AI, dataskyddsförordningen, GDPR, förvaltningsrätt, artikel 22

Nationell ämneskategori

Juridik och samhälle

Identifikatorer

URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-38507OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-38507DiVA, id: diva2:1396182Tillgänglig från: 2020-02-25 Skapad: 2020-02-25 Senast uppdaterad: 2020-03-13Bibliografiskt granskad

Abstract [en]

This paper contributes to the understanding of hybrid organizations by refining the concept of decoupling as a strategic response to conflicting objectives and institutional expectations (Meyer and Rowan in Am J Soc 83:340–363, 1977). In today’s popular responsibility discourse one notes a hopeful “win–win” ideal that invites attempts, by companies in particular, to realize and balance conflicting values and to strive to fulfil both profit objectives and responsibility objectives. Although institutional theory has long acknowledged the strategic response of decoupling in organizational contexts, the potential of exploring and refining how this concept may be used to analyse strategic responses in the contemporary era of market-embedded morality has yet to be explored (Shamir in Econ Soc 37:1–19, 2008). There are good reasons to do so as the present-day discourse on the relation between the economy and morality offers a new set of options and challenges for legitimately responding to institutional demands. This paper draws on an explanatory, rich ethnographic and longitudinal case study of a Swedish fully state-owned company operating in the post 1990s gambling market. We suggest that contemporary hybrid organizations positioned at the crossroads of bureaucratic and market schemes of organizing, may find themselves in a particularly tight spot and seek legitimacy by decoupling—not only by adopting certain legitimizing structures, but also and increasingly with reference to market-embedded morality, a commoditizing of responsibility in their contested market setting. Based on the case findings, we suggest a distinction between organization–based decoupling and market–based decoupling and propose that market-based decoupling may be attractive to hybrid organizations owing to it being less sensitive to scrutiny and accountability claims. But at the same time, our findings indicate that market-based decoupling poses a risk to hybrid organizations, as it does not offer the same degree of legitimacy with key stakeholders/the general public as organization-based decoupling does.

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2018. Vol. 22, nr 2, s. 285-313

Nyckelord [en]

Decoupling, Market-embedded morality, Hybrid organization, SOE, Gambling market, Sweden, Svenska Spel

Nationell ämneskategori

Företagsekonomi

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to address the perceptions senior public leaders in local government have regarding the need for business intelligence and their perceptions of the extent to which their organizations are capable of effectively assimilating business intelligence.
The data are from a survey on local governments’ need for and capability
to use business intelligence, with a response rate of 50.5 percent, and semi-structured interviews. The survey method originates from private sector research but is adapted to local government conditions in Sweden.
The leaders’ perceptions about the need for business intelligence were fragmented. Their perceptions regarding its use were even more fragmented, both between different municipalities and within municipalities. The survey is adapted to local government conditions in Sweden
and may need further changes to fit other settings. The adaptation and renewal of questions can lead to summation errors in relation to the original survey.
The paper highlights some of the strategic areas where senior public leaders need
to advance their business intelligence and prioritize specific organizational capabilities. The dominant logic, enhancing an inward-looking approach, seems to prevent a more thoroughgoing business analysis.
The adaptation of a method that is mainly used in the private sector can give new
perspectives to senior public leaders regarding the need for and use of business intelligence and can help them identify the factors that can affect the complexity and volatility in local government settings.

Abstract [en]

This study reports on an attempt to remove management accounting’s calculative practices at the operational level of a Swedish Public Agency. Using a Habermasian perspective, the study shows how the agency has attempted to replace the previous accounting practice, which involved target setting, performance management and measurement with a new leadership philosophy, and accounting practices that aim at generalizing the individual’s private interest toward organizational interests. The result is interpreted as an attempt to make the individual responsible for the welfare of the collective in which, in its absence, the kind of validity that accounting’s calculative practices enable is very much present as a longing to soothe the anxiety and uncertainty brought about by the responsibility to lead oneself.

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2019.

Abstract [en]

The study explores how top management teams’ shared leadership is related to organizational ambidexterity in public-sector organizations, theoretically and empirically considering how this relationship is contingent on the management control system. Using a sample of 85 Swedish municipal housing corporations, we find that shared leadership has a positive relationship with organizational ambidexterity in public-sector organizations. Moreover, increasing use of new public management control systems, based on combined reward and performance controls, positively moderates this relationship. The study also finds that traditional public management control systems, based on combined planning and administrative controls, do not moderate the relationship between top management teams’ shared leadership and organizational ambidexterity. Accordingly, this article contributes to the public and strategic management literature, as well as to managerial practice.

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Sage Publications, 2019. s. 1-19