Personalen, brukaren och budgeten En kvalitativ intervjustudie om institutionell komplexitet i hemtjänsten
(2025) STVK04 20242Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Swedish home care has long been studied in the light of decades of market-oriented
policies. Studies illuminate how the publicly administrated Swedish home care is
situated in a precarious position, where logics of the market, the bureaucracy and
the prevailing profession must be navigated and consolidated. First-line managers
are uniquely positioned as they interact with the street-level bureaucrats daily, while
also being on the bottom of the bureaucratic vertical administration, therefore
having unique street-level perspectives combined with their role as implementers
of laws and regulation. This paper combines street-level bureaucracy and
institutional logics theory to investigate how first-line managers navigate the
potential... (More) - Swedish home care has long been studied in the light of decades of market-oriented
policies. Studies illuminate how the publicly administrated Swedish home care is
situated in a precarious position, where logics of the market, the bureaucracy and
the prevailing profession must be navigated and consolidated. First-line managers
are uniquely positioned as they interact with the street-level bureaucrats daily, while
also being on the bottom of the bureaucratic vertical administration, therefore
having unique street-level perspectives combined with their role as implementers
of laws and regulation. This paper combines street-level bureaucracy and
institutional logics theory to investigate how first-line managers navigate the
potential cross-pressure in a context defined by logic-pluralism through deep
qualitative interviews with first-line home care managers in a Swedish
municipality. The analysis shows that the existing logics both shapes how the
managers navigate their role as mostly policy implementers and more sporadically
policy co-makers while seeing the different logics as both resources and sources of
cross-pressure. The analysis also shows that the managers refer to the logic of the
market in most situations, which further defines their role as policy implementers
rather than co-makers, while detaching themselves from the street-level
professionals. (Less)
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- author
- Lange, Erik LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK04 20242
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Institutional logics, street-level bureaucracy, frontline managers, home care, qualitative interviews
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9179406
- date added to LUP
- 2025-03-04 12:54:36
- date last changed
- 2025-03-04 12:54:36
@misc{9179406, abstract = {{Swedish home care has long been studied in the light of decades of market-oriented policies. Studies illuminate how the publicly administrated Swedish home care is situated in a precarious position, where logics of the market, the bureaucracy and the prevailing profession must be navigated and consolidated. First-line managers are uniquely positioned as they interact with the street-level bureaucrats daily, while also being on the bottom of the bureaucratic vertical administration, therefore having unique street-level perspectives combined with their role as implementers of laws and regulation. This paper combines street-level bureaucracy and institutional logics theory to investigate how first-line managers navigate the potential cross-pressure in a context defined by logic-pluralism through deep qualitative interviews with first-line home care managers in a Swedish municipality. The analysis shows that the existing logics both shapes how the managers navigate their role as mostly policy implementers and more sporadically policy co-makers while seeing the different logics as both resources and sources of cross-pressure. The analysis also shows that the managers refer to the logic of the market in most situations, which further defines their role as policy implementers rather than co-makers, while detaching themselves from the street-level professionals.}}, author = {{Lange, Erik}}, language = {{swe}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Personalen, brukaren och budgeten En kvalitativ intervjustudie om institutionell komplexitet i hemtjänsten}}, year = {{2025}}, }