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By Per Lægreid, Dr Koen Verhoest, Professor Per Lægreid
Governance of Public region businesses analyzes recent adjustments in govt management by way of targeting organizational varieties and their results. members to this edited quantity reveal how generations of reform bring about elevated complexity of presidency agencies, and clarify this layering approach with a number of theories.
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Similarly, pure terminations are changes where no parts of the unit are continued in other units, while termination into existing units denotes changes where all or some parts of an organization continue in one or more existing units. This may take the form of a merger of two or more existing organizations or the absorption of an organization into another existing organization. More complex reorganizations involving foundings and terminations based on existing units may also occur. 2 Organizational changes influencing the number of units (1985–2007) Affiliation Period No.
These findings are in line with Pollitt’s (2007) characterization of the Nordic states as Neo-Weberian states or strong modernized states that have been able to combine old Weberian bureaucratic features, NPM doctrines and post-NPM structural elements. A Neo-Weberian state of the Norwegian type implies that some of the main features of the Weberian bureaucracy such as specialization are still a main feature of the state apparatus. But the specific types of specialization and the mixture of vertical and horizontal specialization have changed and been affected by international administrative doctrines such as NPM and post-NPM reform trends.
Increased horizontal specialization implies single-purpose organizations and a differentiation (inside or between state organizations) between the government’s roles and functions as owner, administrator, regulator, purchaser and provider (Boston et al. 1996). Increased vertical specialization implies structural devolution and more autonomy for agencies and other state organizations outside the (core) ministries, where authority and responsibility are delegated to lower hierarchical levels. Over the past decade a number of post-NPM reform features have come to the fore that have supplemented and modified the NPM reforms, especially in the most radical NPM countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.