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Hybrid accountabilities and managerial agency in the third sector

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Abstract

This paper investigates how the dynamics of conflicting accountabilities are managed within the context of the third sector; specifically in organizations providing services for people with learning difficulties. Multiple accountability relationships create organizational settings that are subject to multiple constraints and risks but also offer resources for agency. We analyse how managers take up agency to enable them to enact, resist or reconcile multiple accountabilities. Our study’s contribution lies in our elucidation of the far-reaching hybridity of the third sector and the complex forms of actorhood it cultivates, in which managers are able to handle resources with great dexterity, in pursuit of settlements which may only be contingent and temporary.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 325-336

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Public Administration (Volume 98, Issue 2)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 16/10/2018
  • Published - 29/10/2018

Publication status

Published - 29/10/2018

ISSN

0033-3298

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/623067
  • Scopus: 85059119447

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