The Parish in the Audit Society
(2011) the 3rd conference on Church Leadership and Organizational Change: topic “Church Work and Management in Change”- Abstract
- What happens when global market-oriented models for auditing and quality assessment are taken up by local parishes? The paper is based on case studies where a number of parishes and auditing models provide the object of study.
Parishes are to some extent restrictive about embracing new ideas on auditing and quality control. With assistance from neo-institutional theory it can be shown that the concepts bring with them norms of an “ideal organization”: the market based independent actor with control over its resources and boundaries. Actors from the surrounding “auditing society” contribute to a shifting of the focus for control in the Church of Sweden: from the beliefs and lives of the members to the resources and behaviour of... (More) - What happens when global market-oriented models for auditing and quality assessment are taken up by local parishes? The paper is based on case studies where a number of parishes and auditing models provide the object of study.
Parishes are to some extent restrictive about embracing new ideas on auditing and quality control. With assistance from neo-institutional theory it can be shown that the concepts bring with them norms of an “ideal organization”: the market based independent actor with control over its resources and boundaries. Actors from the surrounding “auditing society” contribute to a shifting of the focus for control in the Church of Sweden: from the beliefs and lives of the members to the resources and behaviour of the organization. By adopting a concept such as Balanced Scorecard the parish priest’s role as manager, with a leadership hierarchy and boundaries, is made clear. (Less)
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- Linde, Stig LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2011
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- unpublished
- subject
- keywords
- Quality assessment, Church of Sweden
- conference name
- the 3rd conference on Church Leadership and Organizational Change: topic “Church Work and Management in Change”
- conference location
- Järvenpää, Finland
- conference dates
- 2011-09-15 - 2011-09-17
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- abf1991c-cfe4-4159-bfed-088df8d6a7a2 (old id 2227029)
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Parishes are to some extent restrictive about embracing new ideas on auditing and quality control. With assistance from neo-institutional theory it can be shown that the concepts bring with them norms of an “ideal organization”: the market based independent actor with control over its resources and boundaries. Actors from the surrounding “auditing society” contribute to a shifting of the focus for control in the Church of Sweden: from the beliefs and lives of the members to the resources and behaviour of the organization. By adopting a concept such as Balanced Scorecard the parish priest’s role as manager, with a leadership hierarchy and boundaries, is made clear.}},
author = {{Linde, Stig}},
keywords = {{Quality assessment; Church of Sweden}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{The Parish in the Audit Society}},
year = {{2011}},
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