期刊名称:International Public Management Review (IPMR)
出版年度:2007
卷号:8
期号:1
页码:33-55
出版社:International Public Management Network
摘要:This article explores the way government has been managing the antagonism between
institutional forces towards efficiency and those towards control in the international
seaport of Lisbon. We conclude that the antagonism emerges in the presence of certain
institutional forces, like economic downturns and political changes, that stimulate the
adoption of new adequate templates. Governments have come to manage this
antagonism through the separation between the strategic and operational structures,
and by controlling strategic issues while giving operational autonomy. As such,
organizational transformations have reflected this way to manage the antagonism.
Given the emergence of new institutional templates (e.g. corporate governance) we also
identify major challenges governments will face to integrate contradictory institutional
forces.