TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wenzel, Bertolt
T1  - Organizing coordination in fisheries and marine environmental management: Patterns of organizational change in Europe
JF  - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
N2  - Over the past decade, an increasing number of public organizations involved in marine governance in Europe have adapted their formal coordination structures for fisheries and marine environmental management. This study examines why the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), DG FISH of the European Commission, the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR), and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM) have changed their sectoral structures into organizations with a geographical focus on marine ecosystems. The study finds that the gradual convergence of formal coordination structures for fisheries and marine environmental management is driven by coercive, normative and mimetic processes of isomorphism. The structural changes reflect an organizational adaptation to a changing institutional environment and an Ecosystem Approach to Management (EAM) focusing on regional marine areas, cross-sector integration and coordination. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Public organizations
KW  - Coordination
KW  - Fisheries management
KW  - Marine environmental management
KW  - Isomorphism
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.10.012
SN  - 0964-5691
SN  - 1873-524X
VL  - 134
SP  - 194
EP  - 206
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -