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Andreas Bergh. Foto.

Andreas Bergh

Universitetslektor

Andreas Bergh. Foto.

Municipally owned corporations in Sweden : A cautionary tale

Författare

  • Andreas Bergh
  • Gissur Erlingsson

Summary, in English

IMPACT: Municipally owned corporations (MOCs) exist across the globe and have become increasingly common. They are motivated by the need for flexibility, a desire to cut costs and to increase efficiency. This article summarizes Swedish experiences with MOCs. It shows that the stated motivations are not necessarily wrong, but that relying heavily on MOCs may have unintended and adverse side-effects. Such side-effects include blurring the role of local politicians, increasing corruption risks and giving rise to complex organizational structures within local governments. Ultimately, transparency and democratic accountability may suffer because of an excessive reliance on MOCs. In particular, councillors, mayors and MOC chief executive officers will benefit from reading these results, and ask themselves what kind of MOCs their municipality should operate, how many MOCs are appropriate to run, and also how members of MOC boards need to be educated.

Avdelning/ar

  • Nationalekonomiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2023

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Public Money and Management

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • Accountability
  • corruption
  • delegation
  • local government
  • municipally owned corporations
  • New Public Management
  • principal–agent problems
  • Sweden

Status

Inpress

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0954-0962