Entrepreneurship in the Swedish municipal polis : the case of Mer [*] Östersund
Scholars in political science and policy studies have been paying increasing attention to a specific kind of actor, the policy entrepreneur, as an agent of change. Less attention has been paid to the contextual factors that may shape entrepreneurial action as most of the extant research is performed...
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ftmittuniv:oai:DiVA.org:miun-29702 2023-05-15T17:44:39+02:00 Entrepreneurship in the Swedish municipal polis : the case of Mer [*] Östersund Petridou, Evangelia 2018 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-29702 https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2018.1434872 eng eng Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för samhällsvetenskap Policy Studies, 0144-2872, 2018, 39:1, s. 70-89 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-29702 doi:10.1080/01442872.2018.1434872 ISI:000425790900005 Scopus 2-s2.0-85041528157 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Policy entrepreneurship community planning economic development municipal government social network analysis Swedish politics policy-making governance Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2018 ftmittuniv https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2018.1434872 2023-04-07T06:10:26Z Scholars in political science and policy studies have been paying increasing attention to a specific kind of actor, the policy entrepreneur, as an agent of change. Less attention has been paid to the contextual factors that may shape entrepreneurial action as most of the extant research is performed in pluralistic systems and in high complexity policy sectors. This is a study of a routine planning process in the municipality of ostersund in Northern Sweden with the purpose of studying the kind of actors that may act entrepreneurially (the who); the kind of strategies they use; and what contextual powers facilitate these strategies (the how). This two-and-a-half-year routine, low-complexity process was analyzed with in-depth interviews and a survey, participant observation, document analysis, and formal social network analysis. Findings suggest that professional administrators acted entrepreneurially by employing a set of six strategies while the members of civil society were central - though not entrepreneurial - participants. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Mid Sweden University: Publications (DiVA) Policy Studies 39 1 70 89 |
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Scholars in political science and policy studies have been paying increasing attention to a specific kind of actor, the policy entrepreneur, as an agent of change. Less attention has been paid to the contextual factors that may shape entrepreneurial action as most of the extant research is performed in pluralistic systems and in high complexity policy sectors. This is a study of a routine planning process in the municipality of ostersund in Northern Sweden with the purpose of studying the kind of actors that may act entrepreneurially (the who); the kind of strategies they use; and what contextual powers facilitate these strategies (the how). This two-and-a-half-year routine, low-complexity process was analyzed with in-depth interviews and a survey, participant observation, document analysis, and formal social network analysis. Findings suggest that professional administrators acted entrepreneurially by employing a set of six strategies while the members of civil society were central - though not entrepreneurial - participants. |
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Entrepreneurship in the Swedish municipal polis : the case of Mer [*] Östersund |
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Entrepreneurship in the Swedish municipal polis : the case of Mer [*] Östersund |
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Entrepreneurship in the Swedish municipal polis : the case of Mer [*] Östersund |
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Entrepreneurship in the Swedish municipal polis : the case of Mer [*] Östersund |
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Entrepreneurship in the Swedish municipal polis : the case of Mer [*] Östersund |
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