Steccolini, Ileana and Saliterer, Iris and Korac, Sanja and Dom, Bernard Kofi and Barbera, Carmela and Duboys, Celine (2024) Insights from Local Government Managers: Navigating Crises through Organizational Capacities and Perceptions. Public Administration Review. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13859
Steccolini, Ileana and Saliterer, Iris and Korac, Sanja and Dom, Bernard Kofi and Barbera, Carmela and Duboys, Celine (2024) Insights from Local Government Managers: Navigating Crises through Organizational Capacities and Perceptions. Public Administration Review. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13859
Steccolini, Ileana and Saliterer, Iris and Korac, Sanja and Dom, Bernard Kofi and Barbera, Carmela and Duboys, Celine (2024) Insights from Local Government Managers: Navigating Crises through Organizational Capacities and Perceptions. Public Administration Review. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13859
Abstract
Recent years have shown that strategic responses to crises by local governments (LGs) depend on the type of crisis, the institutional environment, but also internal capacities and sensemaking processes. However, such relationships have not been tested widely yet. Based on a survey of managers (n=590) from cities with more than 15,000 inhabitants in France, Germany, Italy and the UK, this study explores the role played by specific organizational capacities (critical thinking, bricolage, financial capacities) and crisis perceptions (valence – i.e., threat vs opportunity; and controllability) in shaping adaptive or regressive response strategies. Results show that these capacities are associated with how LGs’ managers perceive crises and the type of responses adopted. Higher financial capacity, bricolage and critical thinking are associated with stronger sense of organizational controllability, but they have different relationships with threat and opportunity perceptions. The study confirms the importance of distinguishing valence (threat, opportunity) from controllability perceptions.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2024 15:16 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:21 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38771 |
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