What, when and where?
IRSPM Special Interest Group organizes Panel (#04) Governing and Managing Hybridity – Between Promises and Pitfalls in the upcoming IRSPM 2025 Conference. The call for paper abstracts is now extended till Monday, 4 November 2024 (midnight, CET), so there is still time to submit your article or project. IRPMS conference 2025, themed “Civic engagement and social capital in contemporary public administration: facing the challenges of social equity and environmental sustainability”, will be held in Bologna, Italy on 7 – 9 April.
Why This Panel Matters?
Hybridity in governance offers unique opportunities and challenges, blending public and private sector strategies to innovate and drive social value. However, these same configurations can lead to increased ambiguity, accountability challenges, and conflicts. Understanding why and how hybrids succeed—or struggle—is essential for those interested in the future of public service delivery, especially as boundary-crossing collaborations grow more prominent in response to global crises, from pandemics to climate change.
What to Expect?
The panel will bring together researchers and practitioners from a variety of fields to engage in an open, interdisciplinary dialogue on hybrid governance and management. The topics of the papers may be associated with, but are not limited to the following:
- Shared ownership between public and private owners in different settings.
- Tensions for governance, accounting and accountability practices in different types of hybrid organizations, such as municipally owned and state-owned enterprises, quasi non-governmental organizations (quangos) and social enterprises.
- Impact of hybridity on strategies, performance management and value conflicts of service delivery systems.
- Goal incongruence and other effects of mixing different institutional logics in the same organization or in a larger network.
- Variety in the sources of funding for societally important activities.
- Digital transformation facilitating new hybrid interactions between citizens, government and the business sector.
- Crisis and turbulence shaping the identity of hybrid governance and organizations, also in interorganizational and interprofessional networks.
- The role of public managers, as well as professionals in creating understanding on hybridity and hybrid governance.
- Collaborative forms of governance as responses to deal with the problems of institutional hybridity.
- Financial and non-financial forms of control in the hybridized service delivery such as new regulatory practices and developments in co-regulation.
The panelists
- Jarmo Vakkuri, Tampere University
- Jan-Erik Johanson, Tampere University
- Marieke van Genugten, Radboud University, Nijmegen
- Giuseppe Grossi, Kristianstad University and Nord University
- Philip Marcel Karré, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Mirko Noordegraaf, University of Utrecht
- Ulf Papenfuß, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
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