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New development: Corporatization of local authorities in England in the wake of austerity 2010–2016

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  • Laurence Ferry
  • Rhys Andrews
  • Chris Skelcher
  • Piotr Wegorowski

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A key institutional driver of current reforms within English local government is ‘alternative service delivery’. Our review of councils’ annual accounts between 2010/11 and 2016/17 suggests ‘corporatization’—the creation of local authority companies—is a growing phenomenon across the whole of English local government. This represents such a significant and far-reaching development in the governance, performance and efficiency of local public services that it constitutes a major field-level change at the interstices of the institutions of state, market, corporation and community. In this article, the authors briefly sketch ways corporatization could be regarded as a field-level change, before presenting findings and reflecting on their implications.

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  • Laurence Ferry & Rhys Andrews & Chris Skelcher & Piotr Wegorowski, 2018. "New development: Corporatization of local authorities in England in the wake of austerity 2010–2016," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(6), pages 477-480, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:38:y:2018:i:6:p:477-480
    DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2018.1486629
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    1. Laszlo Vasa & Szilard Hegedus & Csaba Lentner, 2021. "Debt Dynamics Among European Municipalities and Their Organizations: Comparative Analysis with Focus on Hungary," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(1), pages 622-645.
    2. Rhys Andrews, 2022. "Organizational Publicness and Mortality: Explaining the Dissolution of Local Authority Companies," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 350-371, March.
    3. Hulya Dagdeviren & Ewa Karwowski, 2022. "Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain [Regul(ariz)ation of fringe credit: Payday lending and the borders of global financial practice]," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 22(3), pages 685-707.
    4. Bart Voorn & Marieke van Genugten & Sandra Van Thiel, 2020. "Performance of municipally owned corporations: Determinants and mechanisms," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 91(2), pages 191-212, June.
    5. Dag Ingvar Jacobsen, 2021. "Motivational Differences? Comparing Private, Public and Hybrid Organizations," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 21(3), pages 561-575, September.
    6. Tomasz Jedynak & Krzysztof Wąsowicz, 2021. "The Relationship between Efficiency and Quality of Municipally Owned Corporations: Evidence from Local Public Transport and Waste Management in Poland," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(17), pages 1-30, August.
    7. Ferry, Laurence & Wegorowski, Piotr & Andrews, Rhys, 2024. "Hybridity, institutional logics and value creation mechanisms in the corporatisation of social care," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 56(1).

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