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Environmental Change, Leadership Succession and Incrementalism in Local Government

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  • George Boyne
  • Rachel Ashworth
  • Martin Powell

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A theoretical model of strategic budgetary choices in local government is developed and tested. The model assumes that expenditure decisions are a function of changes in environmental circumstances and the characteristics of local leaders. Environmental change is operationalized through measures of workload, munificence and regulatory controls. Leadership succession is defined as the turnover in managerial and political élites. These environmental and leadership variables are included in a multivariate statistical model of budgetary incrementalism. The model is tested on the spending decisions of 402 English local authorities from 1981 to 1996. The empirical results suggest that the extent of budgetary change is influenced strongly by environmental change but weakly by leadership succession. Furthermore, environmental constraints became tighter during the study period. The characteristics of public sector organizations that impose limits on the strategic choices of new leaders are identified.

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  • George Boyne & Rachel Ashworth & Martin Powell, 2001. "Environmental Change, Leadership Succession and Incrementalism in Local Government," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(6), pages 859-878, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jomstd:v:38:y:2001:i:6:p:859-878
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-6486.00262
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    1. Joseph Drew & Brian Dollery, 2016. "A Factor Analytic Assessment of Financial Sustainability: The Case of New South Wales Local Government," Australian Accounting Review, CPA Australia, vol. 26(2), pages 132-140, June.
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    3. José Luis Zafra-Gómez & Antonio Manuel López-Hernández & Agustin Hernández-Bastida, 2009. "Developing an alert system for local governments in financial crisis," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(3), pages 175-181, May.
    4. Heinke Roebken, 2007. "Leadership Turnover among University Presidents," management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 18(2), pages 138-152.
    5. Lotta-Maria Sinervo, 2020. "Financial Sustainability of Local Governments in the Eyes of Finnish Local Politicians," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(23), pages 1-16, December.
    6. Ralf Meinhardt & Sebastian Junge & Martin Weiss, 2018. "The organizational environment with its measures, antecedents, and consequences: a review and research agenda," Management Review Quarterly, Springer, vol. 68(2), pages 195-235, April.

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