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The autonomy -- control balance in Flemish arm's length public agencies

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  • Bram Verschuere

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This article aims at contributing to the study of arm's length agencies by focusing on what are considered to be core concepts of agencification: autonomy and control of public agencies. The balance between autonomy and control is studied for a set of Flemish public agencies, from three angles: (1) To what extent can we observe the practitioner model of disaggregation, managerial freedom and results based control in Flanders?; (2) Which autonomy-control balances do we find empirically? Departing from two extreme cases -- control loss and false autonomy -- I conclude that there is a lot of variation amongst Flemish public agencies as to their autonomy-control balances; and (3) Based on a third set of empirical conclusions, I try to broaden the normative discussion on the accountability debate that surrounds arm's length agencies, by proposing a broader concept of steering and control. I conclude the article by proposing four directions for future research on this specific topic of agency research.

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  • Bram Verschuere, 2007. "The autonomy -- control balance in Flemish arm's length public agencies," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(1), pages 107-133, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:9:y:2007:i:1:p:107-133
    DOI: 10.1080/14719030601181266
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    1. Soonae Park & Don S. Lee & Jieun Son, 2021. "Regulatory reform in the era of new technological development: The role of organizational factors in the public sector," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(3), pages 894-908, July.
    2. Waluyo, Budi, 2018. "Balancing financial autonomy and control in agencification: issues emerging from the Indonesian higher education (Otonomi dan pengendalian keuangan pada Badan Layanan Umum sektor pendidikan)," INA-Rxiv x2vm4, Center for Open Science.

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