TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krause, Tobias Alexander
A1  - Van Thiel, Sandra
T1  - Perceived managerial autonomy in municipally owned corporations
BT  - disentangling the impact of output control, process control, and policy-profession conflict
JF  - 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
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2018.1473472
SN  - 1471-9037
SN  - 1471-9045
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
SP  - 187
EP  - 211
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -