Jarmo Vakkuri- Professor
- Professor (Full) at Tampere University
Jarmo Vakkuri
- Professor
- Professor (Full) at Tampere University
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Introduction
Jarmo Vakkuri is Professor of Local Public Economics, and the director of the research group on Public Financial Management. He studies performance management, hybrid governance, urban policy-making and reform policies. He is the co-author of “Governing hybrid organisations”, the co-editor of “Hybrid governance, organisations and society” and “Accounting and public governance – Exploring hybridizations”. Vakkuri is the director of the project "Policy value amidst hybridity" (BRIDPOL).
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Governing arrangements involving public, private, and third‐sector actors are increasingly initiated to tackle sustainability challenges. Their value creation relies on the collective efforts of diverse stakeholders, but actors adhering to different institutional logics have divergent opinions on what collaborative value creation should encompass a...
This video explains the main ideas in the book ”Public Policies for Hybrid Governance” in four or so minutes. On the right hand side select MORE and DOWNLOAD. Should work fine.
See linked data for a short video intro.
This authoritative book examines the complex interplay between government, business, and civil society through the lens of public policy. It analyzes the role of hybridity in policy formation and diffusion, drawing on in-depth theoretical discussions alongside diverse case studies.
The chapter elaborates on hybridity in terms of policies and value creation. To do so, it conceptualises policy hybridity from two perspectives: first, as part of policy formation, which includes goals and actors other than those of the government (‘hybridity of policies’), and second, as a medium to govern hybridity in societies (‘policies for hyb...
Complex policy problems do not follow the definitions of sectoral or organisational mandates in which individual concerns are linked to specific policy problems and where the respective accountabilities are easily demonstrated through the performance of individual policies.
When it comes to the theorisation of the relationship between policy and hybridity, the rich empirical evidence and conceptual insights provided throughout this volume suggest the placement of hybridity along a continuum where policy actors attempt to manage or govern hybridity in terms of degrees (often in combination) of pro-active vs. re-active...
A fundamental theoretical problem is understanding hybridity
at different levels of societal activities and decision-making. In other words, how can the notion of hybridity be extended from an organisational problem to other facets and contexts of societal activities?
Our analysis of the literature indicates a growing prominence of hybridity within the field of public administration. Hybrid arrangements incorporate ambiguities and controversies, but they also represent opportunities for joint action and goal achievement. The difficulties inherent in hybridity originate from the dichotomous view of the public–pri...
Description of the special issue. The articles can be accessed through links.
This short video presentation desribes contributions of the special issue. Get it from the right hand side MORE and then DOWNLOAD. Should work fine.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Julkisen sektorin sosiaali- ja terveysalan palvelujärjestelmää kehitetään useiden samanaikaisten haasteiden ristipaineessa. Näitä ovat esimerkiksi niukat taloudelliset resurssit, hoito- ja hoivavelka, väestön ikääntymisen myötä kasvava palvelutarve sekä työvoimapula. Pelkkä reaktiivinen toiminta ei riitä, vaan ongelmien ratkaisemiseksi tarvitaan ko...
Julkisen sektorin sosiaali- ja terveysalan palvelujärjestelmää kehitetään useiden samanaikaisten haasteiden ristipaineessa. Näitä ovat esimerkiksi niukat taloudelliset resurssit, hoito- ja hoivavelka, väestön ikääntymisen myötä kasvava palvelutarve sekä työvoimapula. Pelkkä reaktiivinen toiminta ei riitä, vaan ongelmien ratkaisemiseksi tarvitaan ko...
This chapter deals with performance management in public sector activities. Our aim is to discuss fundamental assumptions and limitations of performance management systems and practices when they are adopted, implemented and used in different policies and agencies of the government. First, we briefly introduce the institutional structures of perfor...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
CALL FOR PAPERS
CALL FOR PAPERS GOVERNING AND MANAGING HYBRIDITY
Call for paper proposals Special issue on hybridized management. Australian Journal of Public Administration
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...
Purpose
This paper reflects on Sven Modell's (2022) study discussing uses of institutional theorising for studying performance measurement and management (PMM) in the public sector context. The paper provides arguments for critically analysing the assumptions and characteristics of PMM research.
Design/methodology/approach
First, the paper address...
Purpose
Drawing upon theoretical insights on value creation perspectives, the authors aim to advance the understanding of performance and accountability in different hybrid organisations.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors conceptualise common theoretical origins of hybrid organisations and how they create and enact value, by reflecting on th...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
You are warmly welcome to submit your abstract to our online IRSPM panel. The atmosphere has been supportive and the discussion is lively.
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...
How are public policies influenced by hybridity?
Call for papers open until 29 January 2021
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)
Abstract
Purpose – This paper provides a reflective comparison of the budgetary implications of the COVID-19
pandemic for three Nordic countries: Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Design/methodology/approach – By drawing from the notion of ambiguity and constructions of certainty,
this study analyzes the most relevant budgetary allocations and packages i...
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...
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...
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).
Literature on performance management in hybrid organisations remains lacking, even though they increasingly are providing public services. This study created new knowledge on performance management in hybrid organisations by answering a question that addressed what kinds of challenges are in hybrid organisation's boundary crossing performance dialo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The pursuit of sustainability through various smart solutions has become prominent in urban policy-making. We explore how cities utilize particular planning and management tools in this endeavour. We introduce the concept of sustainability proxies that are necessities in organizing institutional complexity. We show how that complexity is framed dif...
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...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the dynamics of budgetary biasing in the context of public hospitals.
Design/methodology/approach
The study applies theories of accounting and budgeting behaviors in the specific institutional context of health care systems. Based on the theoretical framework, data from interviews with hospital budge...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Helsingin Sanomat vieraskynä 23.9.2019
Raitiotiejärjestelmät voidaan nähdä materiaalisina välineinä, jotka järjestävät
kompleksisuutta pitkän aikavälin ennakoitavuutta tuottavalla tavalla. Ne ovat
intensiivistä ja suurikapasiteettista joukkoliikennettä, jotka vaativat
huomattavaa infrastruktuuria. Saavutettavuutta parantavina hankkeina ne ovat
samanaikaisesti megaluokan investointeja ka...
Tutkimusryhmämme on analysoinut kestävän kaupunkikehityksen päätöksenteon
järjestelmiä ja toimijoita sekä erityisesti kestävyyden hallinnan välineitä, tietoa ja
mittareita. Tavoitteena on ollut luoda kokonaisvaltaista ymmärrystä siitä,
millaisten päätöksenteon instrumenttien avulla suomalaista kaupunkikehitystä
pyritään hallitsemaan ja mitä tästä v...
Kestävän kaupunkiseudun hallinnan välineet eivät ole täydellisiä. Päinvastoin, ne sisältävät monenlaisia rajoitteita. Välineet voidaan nähdä parhaimmillaankin vain likimääräistyksinä siitä, mitä ”kestävä kaupunkiseutu” lopulta tarkoittaa, miten sen edistymistä voidaan mitata sekä millaisin toimintapolitiikoin ja keinovalikoimin mitattua kestävyyttä...
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...
Recent and upcoming book on governing hybridity
We sought for both theoretical and empirical papers:
Describing developments between public and private spheres of activity.
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 institutional settings
Goal incongruence and different institutional...
We sought for both theoretical and empirical papers describing developments between public and private spheres of activity.
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 institutional settings
Goal incongruence and different institutional lo...
This article analyses survey data regarding the impact of supreme audit institutions’ (SAIs) performance audit on public administration in four Nordic countries. Regression analysis with pooled data from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden indicates that performance audits have positive impacts on usefulness, changes, improvements and, to some exte...
Johanson and Vakkuri put forward a combined view on the strategy performance interface. Strategic management and performance management are separate areas of activity, but they have multiple points of contact. The economy, efficiency and effectiveness are important aspects in designing organisation structures, developing heuristics and dealing with...
Toimiva kaupunkiympäristö on yksi hyvinvointia edistävän elämän rakennusaineista. Liikkumisen helppous on puolestaan osa kaupungin toimivuutta. Tampereen raitiotien kaltaiset saavutettavuutta parantavat raidehankkeet ovat esimerkkejä investointivetoisesta kaupunkikehittämisestä. Jotta suuren mittaluokan hankkeilla olisi potentiaalia toimia strategi...
Hybrids appear in many forms. They combine aspects of the pure species of private and public organisations. In the world of organisations, hybridity can be a contractual relationship between firms, but many hybrids locate themselves between public and private spheres. The level of hybridity depends upon the ownership and financing, goal incongruenc...
This is a review of the book governing hybrid organisations published in Hallinnon tutkimus 1/2018, 71-72 By Petri Uusikylä
This paper aims to provide institutional explanations for the development of performance-based budgeting (PBB). Particularly, we explore the tensions between converging and diverging pressures. By analysing PBB in two countries with significant experience with it, Finland and Sweden, the research explains why we observe only evolutionary changes in...
Millaisia seurauksia sillä on, että valtio tyhjenee yksityiselle sektorille ja yhteiskuntaa koskevaa päätöksentekoa siirtyy politiikan ulkopuolelle? Joidenkin mukaan julkisia tavoitteita ja yksityistä yritystoimintaa yhdistävät hallinnan tavat tuottavat hirviömäisiä sekasikiöitä, jotka uhkaavat sekä yhteiskunnallisia tavoitteita että yritystoiminna...
Hybrid arrangements are ill understood, poorly classified and difficult to evaluate. These deficiencies hinder the possibilities in deciphering the rationality of hybrid action. At worst, it is possible to see hybrid arrangements as embodiment of the inadequacies of both the marketplace and government action. In this sense, hybrids may appear as ba...
The three E’s, economy, efficiency and effectiveness can be used to define the performance of hybrid organisations. More often than not, principles of evaluation are filled with ambiguities. In case of hybrids, measurement of performance faces a problem of applying multiple yardsticks in the evaluation of their activities. The perspectives of the m...
The dual attachment of hybrids to public and private spheres provides ample amount of possibilities to organise their actions in developing action sequences, clever heuristics and inter-organisational patterns of interaction to guarantee their financial sustainability. In practice, hybrids need to pay attention to several principles simultaneously...
Hybrids appear in many forms. They combine aspects of the pure species of private and public organisations. In the world of organisations, hybridity can be a contractual relationship between firms, but many hybrids locate themselves between public and private spheres. The level of hybridity depends upon the ownership and financing, goal incongruenc...
Hybrid organisations may follow different routes to fulfill their goals. Strategic design, strategic scanning and strategic governance offer alternatives for programming actions in advance, combining resources into new configurations, and sharing duties with other organisations, respectively. Hybrids are by their nature well equipped to satisfy sim...
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...
Hybrid arrangements have existed throughout the history of organised action. In one sense, the sphere between public and private spheres is a consequence of the evolution in the division of labour between government and economy. In essence, the dichotomy between public and private is not clear. The nature of goods and principles of valuation of soc...
