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7 - Swedish Government Agencies’ Hiring of Policy Consultants: A Phenomenon of Increased Magnitude and Importance?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2019

Caspar van den Berg ,
Michael Howlett ,
Andrea Migone ,
Michael Howard ,
Frida Pemer  and
Helen M. Gunter
Caspar van den Berg
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Michael Howlett
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Andrea Migone
Affiliation:
Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Michael Howard
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle, New South Wales
Frida Pemer
Affiliation:
Stockholm School of Economics
Helen M. Gunter
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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Summary

In many Western countries, the public sector has been one of the fastest growing sectors in the consulting markets (Glassman and Winograd 2005; Saint-Martin 2012). Apart from consulting services related to ICT, public organizations hire consulting services to the extent that the public sector now forms the third-largest client sector for management consulting services in Europe (FEACO 2010, 2016). Extant research has tended to explain organizations’ hiring of consultants with either rational arguments related to organizations’ need for expertise and resources (Armbrüster 2006; Canbäck 1998, 1999), or the individual managers’ need for reducing uncertainty and gaining legitimacy (Alvesson and Johansson 2002; Berglund and Werr 2002; Clark and Salaman 1996; Fincham 2012).

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Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective
Patterns, Nuances and Implications of the Contractor State
 , pp. 177 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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