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Co-owned Local Government Organisations: Conditions for Strategy Development

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Summary, in English

Local governments tend to join resources and create co-owned organisations to solve the supply of public services. From a strategic perspective on local government cooperation, this paper analyses the conditions for strategy development in a co-owned municipal organisation. The empirical data stem from a longitudinal case study of a Swedish provider of water and sewerage services. We show that difficulties in formulating and agreeing upon strategies are not dependent on the structural form. Instead, there is an intrinsic dilemma when municipalities are to create a joint strategy at the same time as each municipality is sovereign to decide on all local matters.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

269-286

Publication/Series

Financial Accountability & Management

Volume

31

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • strategy conditions
  • co-owned organisation
  • cooperation
  • strategy development
  • local goverment

Status

Published

Project

  • Public Management Research

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1468-0408