Trust and Control in Public Sector Reform: Complementarity and Beyond

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    This paper provides an analysis of trust-based management reform in the Danish public sector from the point of view of the trust–control nexus. Based on a qualitative case study of home care in the municipality of Copenhagen we argue that a complementary view of trust and control is superior to a substitution view when it comes to accounting for public sector reform as structure and process. Also, we propose a widening of the theoretical lens in the form of an emergent view of how trust and control, instead of being beforehand determinable and more or less stable identities, emerge in multiple and singular ways from multiple events in the organisation. Noticing a dearth of research that explicitly addresses trust issues with regard to public sector management and organisation, the paper is a response to the call for more studies of trust as an institutionally embedded phenomenon.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftJournal of Trust Research
    Vol/bind7
    Udgave nummer2
    Sider (fra-til)150-169
    Antal sider20
    ISSN2151-5581
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 2017

    Emneord

    • Trust
    • Control
    • New Public Management
    • Organisation
    • Public sector management
    • New public governance

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