Hybridizing the institutional logics of performance improvement and budgetary stewardship in English and Welsh local government

Ferry, L.; Eckersley, P.

Abstract

This article introduces and applies a three-stage process to show how advocates of the conflicting institutional logics of budgetary stewardship and performance improvement in English and Welsh local authorities created a hybrid logic. Drawing on interviews with officers in 25 councils, it demonstrates how cooperative working environments meant that hybridization proceeded largely ‘peacefully’, in contrast to previous studies of more competitive contexts that found it occurs on a ‘battlefield’. We argue that the nature of conflict within the hybridization process, along with the power dynamics between representatives of different logics, shapes the nature and sustainability of the resulting hybrid.

Citation

Ferry, L., & Eckersley, P. (2020). Hybridizing the institutional logics of performance improvement and budgetary stewardship in English and Welsh local government. Public Policy and Administration, 35(1), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076718781433

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 16, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jun 12, 2018
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2020
• Deposit Date: May 25, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: May 28, 2018
• Journal: Public Policy and Administration
• Print ISSN: 0952-0767
• Electronic ISSN: 1749-4192
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-64
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076718781433
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1358270