HYBRIDS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES: COMPARING UK REFORMS IN HEALTHCARE, BROADCASTING AND POSTAL SERVICES
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Turner, Simon; Lourenco, Ana; Allen, Pauline
署名单位：
University of London; University College London; Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; University of London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
刊物名称：
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
ISSN/ISSBN：
0033-3298
DOI：
10.1111/padm.12256
发表日期：
2016
页码：
700-716
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摘要：
Many countries use state-owned, for-profit, and third sector organizations to provide public services, generating hybrid' organizational forms. This article examines how the hybridization of organizations in the public sector is influenced by interaction between regulatory change and professional communities. It presents qualitative data on three areas of the UK public sector that have undergone marketization: healthcare, broadcasting, and postal services. Implementation of market-based reform in public sector organizations is shaped by sector-specific differences in professional communities, as these groups interact with reform processes. Sectoral differences in communities include their power to influence reform, their persistence despite reform, and their alignment with the direction of change or innovation. Equally, the dynamics of professional communities can be affected by reform. Policymakers need to take account of the ways that implementation of hybrid forms interacts with professional communities, including risk of disrupting existing relationships based on communities that contribute to learning.