TY - JOUR A1 - Krause, Tobias Alexander A1 - Van Thiel, Sandra T1 - Perceived managerial autonomy in municipally owned corporations T2 - Public management review N2 - Many European municipalities rely on municipally owned corporations (MOCs) to serve the public interest. Some MOCs, e.g. utilities or hospitals, are also aimed at generating financial revenue, others provide funded services like public transportation. Our article explores local governments’ approaches to the managerial control of influential MOCs. To conceptualize control, we distinguish control mechanisms (e.g. output control), correlates (e.g. policy-profession conflict), and perceived managerial autonomy. Drawing on a sample of 243 MOC top managers in Germany, structural equation modelling reveals four complex relationships between output control, process control, supervisor trust, and policy-profession conflict as antecedents of perceived managerial autonomy. KW - Managerial autonomy KW - municipally owned corporation KW - inter-organizational control KW - policy-profession conflict KW - trust Y1 - 2018 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50399 SN - 1471-9037 SN - 1471-9045 VL - 21 IS - 2 SP - 187 EP - 211 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER -