Ylimmän johdon päätökset julkishallinnon paradigmojen ja kuntajohtamisen heijastumina
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Local governance, management, governance, decisions, decision-making, governance paradigmsAbstrakti
Local executive leaders’ decisions reflecting public governance paradigms and local governance
In this article, we scrutinize how local executive leaders’ decisions as part of local governance and management eventually illustrate the prevailing governance paradigms. The article builds on extant literature on the development of governance paradigms and their impact on local governance and management. The empirical qualitative document analysis explores executive leaders’ decision-making themes and their emphasis in the city of Helsinki in two different periods of time. The results show a clear shift in the emphasis of themes, revealing different management priorities that reflect different kinds of governance paradigms. Our research shows that the content of local executive leaders’ decisions reveals what is considered important in local governance and how these valuations become concrete through the emphasis of certain governance relations and management practices.
