Hybrid accountabilities and managerial agency in the third sector

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Schwabenland, Christina; Hirst, Alison
• 署名单位: University of Bedfordshire; Anglia Ruskin University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12568
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 325-339
• 关键词: INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEXITY; ORGANIZATIONS; LOGICS; CHALLENGES; work

摘要

This article investigates how the dynamics of conflicting accountabilities are managed within the context of the third sector; specifically in organizations providing services for people with learning difficulties. Multiple accountability relationships create organizational settings that are subject to multiple constraints and risks but also offer resources for agency. We analyse how managers take up agency to enable them to enact, resist or reconcile multiple accountabilities. Our study's contribution lies in our elucidation of the far-reaching hybridity of the third sector and the complex forms of actorhood it cultivates, in which managers are able to handle resources with great dexterity, in pursuit of settlements which may only be contingent and temporary.