Understanding Political Entrepreneurship in Local Government Administration – a Contextual Framework

It has been argued that political entrepreneurship is playing an increased role for public organizations and play a vital role in local government organizations. Political entrepreneurship has previously been studied from the motivations and actions of the individual entrepreneur. We argue that in o...

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Published inLex localis-journal of local self-government Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 643 - 658
Main Authors Olausson, Albin, Svensson, Petra
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Maribor Institute for Local Self-Government and Public Procurement Maribor 01.07.2019
Subjects
Collaboration
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
institutional demands
Institutionalism
Local government
Political activism
political entrepreneurship
Political science
Public administration
public administrators
Public policy
Public sector
situated agency
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Summary:It has been argued that political entrepreneurship is playing an increased role for public organizations and play a vital role in local government organizations. Political entrepreneurship has previously been studied from the motivations and actions of the individual entrepreneur. We argue that in order to understand why political entrepreneurship occurs in local public administration, these aspects are not enough. Instead, we need to consider entrepreneurship as situated, and analyse contextual conditions which form institutional demands for political entrepreneurship. A tentative framework is presented, which distinguish conditions coming from reformed organizational setting and conditions coming from new policy challenges. Finally, we conclude that the character of the conditions and thus the institutional demands directs political entrepreneurship towards either value-generative or collaborative entrepreneurship.
ISSN:1581-5374
1855-363X
1581-5374
DOI:10.4335/17.3.643-658(2019)