Jan-Erik Johanson

Jan-Erik Johanson
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Tampere University | UTA · Faculty of Management and Business

Dr. Political science
Jan-Erik is currently engaged in studying hybridity and goal-oriented action in government

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Introduction
Jan-Erik has studied governance of hybridity in theory and in variety of empiral settings. Goal-oriented action in government has been another area of his recent topics of interest. Network thinking and relational perspective signify cross-cutting themes in his research.
Additional affiliations
November 2003 - October 2010
University of Helsinki
Position
  • Lecturer
September 1993 - October 2003
University of Helsinki
Position
  • Assistant
October 2010 - December 2015
Tampere University
Position
  • Professor (Full)
Description
  • Public Financial Management
Education
June 1998 - October 2001
University of Helsinki
Field of study
  • Political Science
June 1996 - July 1997
Brunel University London
Field of study
  • Government
July 1994 - August 1994
University of Essex
Field of study
  • 27th ECPR Essex summer school in social science data analysis and collection

Publications

Publications (180)
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Governing Hybrid Organisations presents an engaging discussion around hybrid organisations, highlighting them as important and fascinating examples of modern institutional diversity. Chapters examine the changing landscape of service delivery and the nature and governance of hybrid organisations, using international examples and cases from differen...
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This book explores goal-oriented action and describes the variety of options offered by strategic management in guiding public organisations. The book is based on the idea that planning is only one option in orienting the functioning of public organisations and applies resource-based and network studies to the public sector. Whilst most of the exis...
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How can we conceptualize, evaluate and measure the value and performance of hybrid governance and organizations? This book offers a comprehensive overview of how hybrids produce value. It explores the drivers, obstacles and complications for value creation in different hybrid contexts: state-owned enterprises, urban policy-making, universities and...
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Strategic management has become an integral tool in the organization of government actions, although a majority of strategic management research focuses on private enterprises. Within the public sector, politics plays an important role in decision-making and the realization of goals, which foregrounds political struggle and bargaining. Many develop...
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of public administration in Finland. Many of the basic structures of Finnish public administration have remained intact during the country’s relatively short independence of 100 years, but she has been able to tackle major turbulence ranging from wars and financial crises to the Covid-19 pandemic. Finland...
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This chapter takes stock of anticipatory practices in the context of governmental responses to unanticipated crisis situations, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study. It pays particular attention to the role of public decision-making within the context of anticipatory governance. Practices are connected to policy instruments and ultimately to...
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In this concluding chapter, we will briefly summarize the main takeaways from the Nordic cases of governance for the future in turbulent times of global crises. We analyse the challenges associated with governing through structures, fostering collaboration and co-creation, and leveraging knowledge.
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At the beginning of 2023, the responsibility for organizing health care, social welfare, and rescue services in Finland shifted from municipalities and joint municipal authorities to 21 wellbeing services counties. The primary aim was to strengthen the financial basis of service delivery and to guarantee equal access to health and social services....
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In this introductory chapter, we present our framework for the thematic analysis of studies of governing the future. We argue that the future can be governed through structures, co-creation, collaboration, and knowledge. Using this framework, we briefly describe the content of the book, as well as introduce the contributors to the book.
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This timely book provides an in-depth exploration of future public governance in a post-pandemic world. It highlights the relationship between administrative reforms, collaborative mechanisms, and emphasises the necessity of a solid knowledge base and evidence based policy-making when responding to unforeseen societal changes and crises.
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Welcome to our VIRTUAL conference panel on Public policies for Hybrid Governance 2-4 July, 2025 in ICPP 7 By submitting an Abstract by 31 January 2025 Panel investigates the dynamic and intricate relationships, rationalities, tensions and dilemmas among public, private and civic domains contributing to policy outcomes. Papers may address (among...
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This book is based on observing many disruptive societal changes and movements that challenge established public governance norms, leading to new discourse and practical innovations. Understanding information resilience is crucial in contemporary governance, especially in an era of rapid information flow and digital interconnectedness. A society’s...
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This chapter investigates how risk perceptions are structured in the human mind. The examination of perceived security risks was based on data from the Finnish Emergency Services Attitudes survey. The data consisted of individual assessments on 14 different types of risk events, ranging from common risks such as traffic accidents to much rarer epis...
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Strategic planning is core to public administration at all governmental levels. Evidence suggests that when conducted well strategic planning impacts several performance outcomes. Yet, public administration and strategy scholars have argued that strategic planning is not only a technical procedure. Its success is contingent upon the people involved...
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This article examines the strategy formation in the Finnish government’s crises management during the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing a research gap by exploring the possibilities for strategy formation in guiding government policy formation. Utilizing perspective of strategic planning and emergent strategies influenced by the authorizing environmen...
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This study explores value-creation mechanisms in an institutionally diverse social and health care ecosystem, specifically through the lenses of institutional logics and institutional work. The research context is the social and health care innovation ecosystem in Tampere, Finland, comprising actors from various institutional backgrounds. The resea...
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Expertly navigating the complex relationships between accounting and the development of hybridized public governance, this erudite Handbook critically analyses the most pressing challenges and limitations currently facing accounting and public governance research. Comprehensively drawing intricate links between accounting, public governance and hyb...
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The idea is that social intercourse induces hybrid formations and that networks themselves embody a variety of hybrid arrangements. The developments of organisations as nodes (e.g. state-owned enterprises (SOEs), social enterprises (SEs)), dyads (public–private partnerships (PPPs)), the management of common-pool resources, professionalism) and netw...
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This chapter discusses the avenues through which to study Finnish public administration in the context of the Nordic welfare state and provides an outline of the perspectives provided in the following chapters. The research on Finnish public administration has been fragmented, and there has been a gap between political science and the study of publ...
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This chapter summarises and concludes with the main changes to and challenges faced by Finnish public administration in the context of Nordic welfare state reforms. The chapter builds on a simple analytical approach by analysing the politico-administrative system from the perspectives of input, throughput and output. The chapter provides a concise...
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The chapter provides an introduction to Finnish public administration by examining the country’s politico-administrative system and the main institutions forming the division of power in Finland. The focus is primarily on the government’s role as both a political institution and an administrative apparatus. The chapter discusses the government’s de...
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This chapter provides an overview of the structure of public administration in Finland, with a focus on the state administration and a brief description of other administrative levels. The Finnish politico-administrative system has had traditionally a two-tier government structure with a strong central government and autonomous municipal level. How...
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Kokoomateoksessa syvennytään tilintarkastuksen, arvioinnin ja omistajaohjauksen ajankohtaisiin ilmiöihin ja kysymyksiin.Tarkastuksen ulkoinen toimintaympäristö – talouselämä, yritystoiminta ja sääntely-ympäristö – muuttuu jatkuvasti. Esimerkiksi ilmastonmuutoksen ja muiden kestävyysongelmien torjunta keskeisenä megatrendinä on tuonut yritysvastuun...
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Kokoomateoksessa syvennytään tilintarkastuksen, arvioinnin ja omistajaohjauksen ajankohtaisiin ilmiöihin ja kysymyksiin.Tarkastuksen ulkoinen toimintaympäristö – talouselämä, yritystoiminta ja sääntely-ympäristö – muuttuu jatkuvasti. Esimerkiksi ilmastonmuutoksen ja muiden kestävyysongelmien torjunta keskeisenä megatrendinä on tuonut yritysvastuun...
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The local scientific committee for IRSPM Tampere edition 16-18 April 2024 in Finland invites panel proposals for the upcoming conference. In addition to the numerous questions of general relevance for the field of public management the conference welcomes panels investigating various forms of hybridity. https://events.tuni.fi/irspm2024/ https://w...
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Tässä luvussa tarkastellaan kansalaisyhteiskuntaa ja yhteiskunnallisia yrityksiä hybridisyyden eli julkisen ja yksityisen toiminnan risteytymisen ilmentymänä, joka kattaa laajan kirjon aina valtion liiketoiminnasta yritysten yhteiskuntavastuuseen ulottuvia ilmiöitä. Luku jakautuu kahteen osaan. Ensimmäisessä osassa käsitellään kansalaisyhteiskunnan...
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Policymakers and researchers have discussed mission-oriented innovation policies (MIPs) as one way to tackle the grand challenges of modern societies. Our contribution to MIP research is to provide a case analysis of the unfolding of such a policy from a hybridity perspective. Hybridity refers to the amalgamation of public policies, private efforts...
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Policymakers and researchers have discussed mission-oriented innovation policies (MIPs) as one way to tackle the grand challenges of modern societies. Our contribution to MIP research is to provide a case analysis of the unfolding of such a policy from a hybridity perspective. Hybridity refers to the amalgamation of public policies, private efforts...
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The circular economy (CE) has been one of the key environmental policy concepts of the last decade. Despite the growing number of CE policies, applications and research, we still lack a detailed understanding of what kind of policy idea we are referring to with the CE. Our purpose in this perspective is to untangle the ideational features of the CE...
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This panel invites both conceptual and empirical contributions that explore various facets of the policies on hybridity and hybridization of societies, in view of their implications on public policy analysis. Many ideas of governance acknowledge the variety of public, private and community actors in policy networks, but the significance and implic...
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Call for paper proposals Special issue on hybridized management. Australian Journal of Public Administration
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As a digital platform, Airbnb has had many positive impacts, including increased income, reduced costs, sustained competitive advantage, streams of innovation, and enhanced value creation. In terms of negative social impacts, Airbnb has been associated with income inequalities and social segregation resulting from higher property prices. These impa...
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Suomessa koronakriisin hoitaminen on kokonaisuudessaan onnistunut melko hyvin. Terveydenhuollon kapasiteetti on kestänyt pandemian aiheuttaman kovan rasituksen. Suomessa rajoitukset ovat olleet lievemmät kuin vertailumaissa ja koronakuolleisuus on Suomessa ollut vähäistä vertailumaihin nähden. Terveysturvallisuus ja koronapotilaiden hoito on korost...
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Here are some slides explaining the chapter content and obviously - types of colour blindness
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These slides will walk you through the ideas presented in the chapter "Strategic management: Public sector view". published in T. Bryer (Ed.) Handbook of theories of public administration and management (2021). E.Elgar. (pp. 234-251).
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Here are some slides explaining strategic management in government, and obviously types of colour blindness
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Over three days, attendants will participate in a workshop to discuss Public policies for hybrid governance. Papers may address (among other possibilities) the following issues and questions: What is the impact of public policies on hybridity? Do public policies increase hybrid forms of governance? Why? How? Empirical approaches to assessing the w...
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The webinar hosted two eminent scholars in the field of SOEs. Anna Grosman from Loughborough University, UK and Joaquim Rubens Fontes-Filho from Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil.
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The chapter is structured in the following way. First, the framework for studying strategic management gives an idea of the possible focus of strategic thinking and action in both the political nexus of the government as well in the operation of public agencies. The examination takes place at both systems as well as organization-level analysis. Sec...
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Within this file there are links to two lectures on public strategic management. They will probably require installation of Panopto tool, but I'm not sure. Enjoy.
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Witihn this file there is a link to to two lectures based on the ideas presented in the chapter. The links probably require downloading the Panopto tool, but I'm not sure about that. Enjoy.
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Hybridihallinta kattaa laajan ja moniaineksisen yritystoimintaa, julkista toimintaa ja vapaaehtoistoimintaa yhdistävän kentän, jonka menestys liittyy olennaisesti hybridien kykyyn hyödyntää moninaisia voimavaroja ja yhdistää joskus ristiin meneviä tavoit-teita ja keinoja. Instituutioiden sekoittuminen merkitsee kuitenkin sitä, että epämää-räisyyden...
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The chapter unfolds as follows. In the second section, we provide an overview of the main principles of performance management traditions in the public and private sectors. Moreover, we extend this discussion to the hybridized government settings by introducing the hybridity characteristics and their impacts on performance management systems and co...
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Mission-oriented innovation policies (MIP) have been discussed and analyzed in innovation and environmental studies with growing intensity. Mission-orientation has been a feature of past innovation and development policies. Recently, new types of MIPs have emerged in research and policymaking. Researchers have emphasized that new mission policies s...
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Modern forms of governance that combine public, private, and voluntary forms of institutional action are becoming more relevant and influential in society. Scholarly attention to hybridity, hybrid governance, hybrid organizations, and hybrid professionalism has also increased. For public-sector performance management, the implications are significa...
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Purpose – In addressing policy problems, it is difficult to disentangle public policies from private efforts, business institutions and civic activities. Societies may acknowledge that all these domains have a role in accomplishing social aims, but there are fundamental problems in understanding why, how and with what implications this occurs. Draw...
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Julkisen sektorin strateginen johtaminen on taitolaji. Olen yrittänyt löytää tapoja ajatella strategista johtamista sekä yksinkertaistetusti että kattavasti, mutta on silti vaikea ratkoa näitä kahta tavoitetta samanaikaisesti. Erottelu perustavien ja yhteisten strategioiden välillä vaikuttaa ilmeiseltä valinnalta, mutta tarkemmassa tarkastelussa no...
Technical Report
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Helsingin poliittinen johtaminen vahvistui, mutta päätöksenteko elitisoitui ja valta keskittyi johtamisjärjestelmän uudistuksen seurauksena. Tampereen yliopiston tutkijoista koostuva tutkimusryhmä toteutti Helsingin kaupungin johtamisjärjestelmän uudistuksen kokonaisarviointitutkimuksen vuosina 2019–2021. Loppuraportissa tarkastellaan uudistukselle...
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Arvioinnissa on tarkasteltu tulosohjauksen periaatteita ja käytännön toteutumista sekä määritelty tulosohjausmallin kehitystarpeita ja vaihtoehtoisia kehityssuuntia. Arvioinnin perusteella tulosohjauksessa on tapahtunut viime vuosina selvää, joskin hallinnonaloittain hyvin vaihtelevaa, kehitystä. Tulosohjaus on monilla hallinnonaloilla kehittynyt s...
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"...Näihin yhtyvät myös ne, joille kadehdittava kohtalo on suonut erikoistehtävien virkamiehen arvon. Jälkimmäisiin liittyvät vihdoin ne, jotka hoitavat virkaa ulkoasiainministeriössä ja eroavat muista tehtäviensä ja käytöstapojensa tärkeyden ja hienouden puolesta. Hyvä Jumala, miten erinomaisia toimia ja virkoja onkaan olemassa ja miten ne ylevöit...
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Keskeisinä tutkimuskysymyksinä ovat: (1) Minkä tehtävien välillä löytyy eniten tarvetta yhteistyölle ja integraatiolle? (2) Minkä ilmiöiden puitteissa yhteistyö- ja integraatiotarvetta ilmenee eniten? (3) Mitä integraatiotarpeet merkitsevät hyvinvointialueiden ja kuntien välisen tehtävien organisoinnin ja työnjaon sopimisen kannalta? (4) Ovatko int...
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You are warmly welcome to submit your abstract to our online IRSPM panel. The atmosphere has been supportive and the discussion is lively.
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Erityisesti suurissa kaupungeissa pyritään tunnistamaan rajapintoja, jotka sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon rakenneuudistuksessa ovat syntymässä sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon palvelujen ja kuntien vastuulla olevien palvelujen väliin. Yhteistyötarpeet korostuvat kaupungeille tyypillisten sosiaalisten ongelmien, kuten segregaation ja lähiöihin liittyvie...
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Arviointitutkimusta ohjaavina kysymyksinä olivat: 1) Miten uudistus tukee poliittista johtamista ja poliittisen ja ammatillisen johtami- sen kokonaisuuden toimivuutta? 2) Miten toimialamalli vaikuttaa johtamiseen? 3) Miten uudistus tukee kansalaisosallistumista? 4) Miten uudistus tukee kaupungin uudistumiskykyä ja johtamisen uudistumista? 5) Miten...
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Harjoitellun näytelmän perustana on käsikirjoitus, jota ohjaaja soveltaa ja näyttelijät tulkitsevat parhaalla taidollaan. Tampereen yliopiston johtamisen ja talouden tiedekunnan tutkijat saivat toimeksiannon toteuttaa Helsingin kaupungin johtamisjärjestelmän uudistuksen arvioinnin. Kriitikkoraadin toteuttama uudistuksen väliarviointi valmistui kesä...
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The topics of the papers may be associated with, but are not limited to the following: • Shared ownership between public and private owners in different settings • Governance and accountability of State-owned enterprises at all government levels, described with different terms (SOEs and MOCs) • Goal incongruence and different institutional logics...
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Sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon rakenneuudistusta on yritetty saada aikaan Suomessa jo 15 vuoden ajan usean eri hallituksen alaisuudessa. Sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon hallintorakenteiden ja rahoituksen uudistamiseen liittyviä linjauksia ja suunnitelmia erityisesti 2015-2019 ja nykyisellä 2019 alkaneella hallituskaudella on perusteltu keskeisiltä osi...
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How are public policies influenced by hybridity? Call for papers open until 29 January 2021
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Tässä Suomen Kuntaliiton ja Tampereen yliopiston yhteistyössä toteuttamassa tutkimuksessa tarkastelun kohteena ovat tehtäväkohtaiset yhteistyömuodot, joka ottaisivat riittävästi huomioon sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon palveluiden lisäksi niihin läheisesti liittyvien kuntien muiden tehtävien yhteydet sekä kuntien ja alueiden erilaisuuden. Tätä teemaa...
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The call for papers for International Public Policy Association ICPP5 (Barcelona 2021) is now open until 29 January 2021. Consider submitting a paper for this panel on Hybrid Governance (details on attached document)
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This chapter describes the elementary structures of society. It draws its findings from the elaboration of the previous comparative literature and more specifically on varieties of capitalism view, discussion of politics and administration, and studies on social capital. The primary questions to be answered are: What are the basic parts of the soci...
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This article contributes to public administration research by combining ideas of strategic management and performance measurement in public policy. Connections between these two policy instruments are largely undeveloped. By utilising theoretical literature and previous empirical insight, this article portrays a conceptual model composed of four al...
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The era of hybrid governance is here. More and more organizations occupy a position between public and private ownership. And value is created not through business or public interests alone, but through distinct forms of hybrid governance. National governments are looking to transform their administrative systems to become more business driven. Lik...
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These slides will guide your through the content of the edited volume on the global developments in governing hybridity published in ”Hybrid governance, organisations and society. value creation perspectives”, Routledge (2020).
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This chapter highlights the individual contributions of the authors in the volume. The results of the findings are gathered under three concepts of value creation, that is, mixing, compromising and legitimizing value. Mixing forms of value creation covers empirical cases in the operation of state-owned enterprises, higher education institutions, pu...
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Irrespective of its significant impact on organising societal activities, the valuation of economic and social action is a quagmire. Among other things, it depends on the perspective we take on social and economic activities. It has become commonplace to refer to the tension between financial and social values, where “financial” value is associated...
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The problems with value creation vary at different hybrid governance levels. The macro-, meso-and micro-levels in hybrid governance enable us to grasp society’s essential parts. Depending on the perspective, the number of relevant levels may vary. It is sometimes possible to reduce the number of levels to the examination of the dyadic macro/micro-q...
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Hybridihallinta kattaa laajan ja moniaineksisen yritystoimintaa, julkista toimintaa ja vapaaehtoistoimintaa yhdistävän kentän, jonka menestys liittyy olennaisesti hybridien kykyyn hyödyntää moninaisia voimavaroja ja yhdistää joskus ristiin meneviä tavoitteita ja keinoja. Instituutioiden sekoittuminen merkitsee kuitenkin sitä, että epämääräisyyden s...
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Toimitettu teos käsittelee hybridien arvonluontia maailmanlaajuisesti. Tapausesimerkit kuvaavat Euroopan, Aasian ja Etelä-Amerikan hybridien olomuotoja ja kehityspiirteitä. Tutkimuksen kohteina ovat muiden muassa sosiaaliset yritykset, sosiaalipalvelut, valtionyhtiöt, pyörien yhteiskäyttö, yliopistojen toiminta, eläkejärjestelmät ja projektiorganis...
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Kehittämisorientoituneessa arvioinnissa arviointikriteerit on rakennettu teorialähtöisesti tunnistamalla aiemmasta tutkimuksesta hyvän kaupunkihallinnan ja johtamisen elementtejä. Uudistuksessa muutettiin Helsingin johtamisjärjestelmää siirtymällä 1.6.2017 pormestarimalliin, jossa kaupungille valittiin pormestari ja neljä apulaispormestaria. Samall...
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It is too simplistic to see hybridity only as a type of organisation. Hybrids appear in micro, meso, and macro levels of activity consisting of pairwise interactions and network constellations between business firms and public agencies. Cleantech industry, health policy national innovation systems, and global air travel are showcases of hybrid acti...
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Kansalaisten ja yhteiskunnan kannalta tärkeiden toimintojen ja palvelujen järjestäminen perustuu usein mustavalkoiseen jakoon ja ajattelutapaan julkisen ja yksityisen toiminnan ja sektoreiden välillä. Näin siitä huolimatta, että monimutkaisuus, kompleksisuus ja pirullisuus ovat olleet jo pitkään kehittämiskeskustelun keskeisiä käsitteitä. Näin myös...
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This article analyses performance measurement ambiguities in hybrid universities. In this paper we ask: 1) How can we better understand institutional mechanisms which transform performance measurement results into ambiguities and unexpected outcomes, and 2) What are the characteristics of hybridity that make ambiguous mechanisms possible in univers...
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The purpose of this article is to analyse the design and implementation of strategic planning and performance management in governmental agencies in two Nordic countries, Finland and Norway. The Nordic countries are an interesting study from a comparative perspective because while they are commonly assumed to have been high-intensity new public man...
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The lack of established measurement instruments contributes to the fact that many studies of national innovation systems are based on case studies of different countries. Empirical findings of a fifteen-country comparative study of national innovation systems in small and large high-income countries and some developing countries suggest that the co...
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In governing such an effort, countries of the world have adopted different strategies and institutional practices with which they have attempted to solve simultaneous problems of access, service quality, and financial balance. Health care service provision reveals important examples of hybrid systems. Financing comes from both public and private re...
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The international airline industry showcases public-private interaction on the grandest scale. Developments after WWII represented sharp increases in air travel on a global scale, even though the regulatory regime was founded on intergovernmental agreements and detailed restrictions on establishing new routes. Government ownership has withered away...
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The Petro Vietnam Power Corporation (abbreviated as PV Power) is one of the first leading organisations of the state-owned Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (abbreviated as the PVN), which contributes about 30 percent of GDP to the country annually. The main duty of PV Power is to invest in power supply, operate several types of power plants, and supply el...
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The Coxa Hospital is located in Tampere, the third largest city in Finland, and serves almost four hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants in the region. Coxa is a hospital specialised in the insertion of prostheses that fit inside the body, such as replacement bones and joints. The company was established in February of 2001. Several factors contri...
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In the Roman Republic, the distinction between politics and business was clear-cut. Senators could not take part in the management of the societas publicanorum or other business activities, but they could be shareholders of the companies. Likewise, private contractors could not enter seats in the senate. Consequently, the publicani, as the most inf...
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As hybrids, higher education systems are indeed a special case. The role and importance of the academic oligarchy in research and teaching can be understood as another dimension of hybridity in universities. In higher education, the interaction between the public and the private is shaped by the self-coordination and control of an academic professi...
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The maintenance of the infrastructure of societies epitomises the collaborative role of public and private action. Thus, in the literature, infrastructure has been one of the common examples of hybrid forms of governance. China is no exception in this respect. In China, highways are classified into five categories: expressways, Class I highways, Cl...
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The institutional emergence of industries is an interesting phenomenon and an extremely useful case for exploring hybrid forms of governance . Although many actors seek institutional clarity and wish to avoid uncertainty, this may not always apply to industrial fields. The current structure of industries is a social convention, which may be incongr...
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The structure and development of the System of National Accounts is a representative example of an important macroeconomic classification that has a profound impact on the way in which we view organisational populations. The impetus for national accounting grew from the need for public intervention to combat the Depression in the 1930s, from develo...
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Over the last few decades, the boundary between public and private responsibility in old-age pension provisions has been redrawn throughout Europe. Pension privatization has led to the large-scale emergence of mandated private pensions, as well as privately managed but publicly defined mandatory pension schemes. The adoption of such public-private...
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The purpose of this article is to analyse the design and implementation of strategic planning and performance management in governmental agencies in two Nordic countries, Finland and Norway. The Nordic countries are an interesting study from a comparative perspective because while they are commonly assumed to have been high-intensity new public man...
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Kansalaisten ja yhteiskunnan kannalta tärkeiden toimintojen ja palvelujen järjestäminen perustuu usein mustavalkoiseen jakoon ja ajattelutapaan julkisen ja yksityisen toiminnan ja sektoreiden välillä. Näin siitä huolimatta, että monimutkaisuus, kompleksisuus ja pirullisuus ovat olleet jo pitkään kehittämiskeskustelun keskeisiä käsitteitä. Näin myös...
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Helsingin Sanomat vieraskynä 23.9.2019
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Esityksessä tutkitaan viraston vaihtoehtoisia asiakasstrategioita erityyppisissä tehtäväympäristöissä. Viraston tehtävärakenteen mukainen luokittelu tarjoaa lähtökohdan suotuisten asiakassuhteiden erittelylle. Viraston tarkastelu kolmen toimijan ryhmissä (triadeissa) auttaa tunnistamaan kolme asiakasstrategian tyyppiä: 1) puolueettomuus, 2) hyödynt...
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It is too simplistic to see hybridity only as a type of organisation. Hybrids appear in micro, meso and macro levels of activity consisting of pairwise interactions and network constellations between business firms and public agencies. Cleantech industry, health policy national innovation systems and global air travel are showcases of hybrid activi...