Insights from local government managers: navigating crises through organizational capacities and perceptions

Barbera, C., Dom, B.K. ORCID: 0000-0002-0889-2571, du Boys, C., Korac, S., Saliterer, I. and Steccolini, I., 2024. Insights from local government managers: navigating crises through organizational capacities and perceptions. Public Administration Review. ISSN 0033-3352

Text 1916511_Dom.pdf - Post-print Restricted to Repository staff only Download (1MB)

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:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Public Administration Review
Creators:	Barbera, C., Dom, B.K., du Boys, C., Korac, S., Saliterer, I. and Steccolini, I.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	6 August 2024
ISSN:	0033-3352
Identifiers:	Number Type 1916511 Other 10.1111/puar.13859 DOI
Rights:	This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Barbera, C., Dom, B.K. , du Boys, C., Korac, S., Saliterer, I. and Steccolini, I., 2024. Insights from local government managers: navigating crises through organizational capacities and perceptions. Public Administration Review, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13859. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Melissa Cornwell
Date Added:	02 Aug 2024 14:08
Last Modified:	08 Aug 2024 14:54
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51887

Actions (login required)

Edit View

Views

Downloads