Verwaltungsreform – eine Daueraufgabe

Reichard, Christoph; Veit, Sylvia; Wewer, Göttrik

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“…However, opposition parties (greens and socialists) together with public worker unions and environmental groups successfully campaigned against these plans, leading to a partial privatisation in which the city maintained majority stakes. The outcome of similar events across Germany is that numerous municipalities partially privatised their utilities – today around 40% have private minority owners – but maintained controlling stakes (Reichard and Röber, 2019: 266). Complementarily, the new role of MOCs was a way to deal with opposition towards new public management reforms from within the local administrations (Kuhlmann, 2019).…”

Section: Persistence and Transformations In Germany’s Moc Sectormentioning

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“…The outcome of similar events across Germany is that numerous municipalities partially privatised their utilities – today around 40% have private minority owners – but maintained controlling stakes (Reichard and Röber, 2019: 266). Complementarily, the new role of MOCs was a way to deal with opposition towards new public management reforms from within the local administrations (Kuhlmann, 2019). Local leaders hoped that the expansion and transformation of existing MOCs into private-law entities would strengthen output orientation and efficiency in service provisions outside these inert bureaucratic bodies (Grossi and Reichard, 2016).…”

Section: Persistence and Transformations In Germany’s Moc Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities

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2023

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Urban studies have shown that the affordances, constraints and forms of urban climate change mitigation often emerge from ‘entrepreneurial’ modes of governance that have developed in post-Fordist cities. However, comparative research stresses that concepts focused on the growing power of private capital under neoliberalisation are inadequate to comprehend developments in German cities. In this article, we argue that municipally owned corporations occupy critical positions in climate change mitigation governance. While municipal ownership of utilities in principle increases local governance capacities, municipally owned corporations’ roles are shaped by fiscal relations and asymmetric organisational capacities between ‘agents’ and ‘principals’. In the case of Cologne, we show that the city has failed to leverage ownership over its public energy utility to decarbonise energy provision. Managers were able to assert corporate interests in the face of fragmented political actors and entrenched fiscal crisis. In this context of political incapacity and fragmentation, environmental social movements become important actors for translating widely shared decarbonisation objectives into concrete political demands towards municipally owned corporations.

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Section: Persistence and Transformations In Germany’s Moc Sectormentioning

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Section: Persistence and Transformations In Germany’s Moc Sectormentioning

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Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities

Wansleben,

Neumann

2023

Urban Studies

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Safe enough to try? Konflikte und deren Bewältigung bei der Einführung von Agilität in der Verwaltung

Ewens

2024

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Agile und bürokratische Organisationen stehen in einem Spannungsverhältnis. Die in diesem Artikel vorgestellte qualitative Studie befasst sich mit der Frage, wie Verwaltungen mit diesem Spannungsverhältnis umgehen, wenn agile Methoden eingeführt werden sollen. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf organisationalen Bewältigungsstrategien zur Moderation der inhärenten Konflikte. Als empirischer Fall wird der Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe betrachtet. Die Analyse basiert auf elf leitfadengestützten Interviews mit Expertinnen und Experten, Dokumentenauswertungen sowie Feldbeobachtungen. Die Auswertung des Materials erfolgt mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse. Im Ergebnis bestätigt sich, dass die konzeptionell bedingten Spannungsfelder in der Praxis als Problem wahrgenommen werden und Widerstände hervorrufen. Es bestehen Ziel- und Ressourcenkonflikte zwischen agilen Projekten und der Linienorganisation sowie Autonomiekonflikte zwischen selbstorganisierten Teams und Führungskräften. Als vorherrschende organisatorische Lösungsstrategien wurden eine Entkopplung von Agilität und Routineprozessen, eine Integration der Betroffenen durch Schulung und Einbindung in das Projekt sowie Anpassungen der Methodik zur Erhöhung der Passfähigkeit zu bürokratischen Organisationen identifiziert.

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Verwaltungsreform – eine Daueraufgabe

Cited by 2 publications

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Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities

Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities

Safe enough to try? Konflikte und deren Bewältigung bei der Einführung von Agilität in der Verwaltung

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