... The paper is based on a qualitative comparative case study of the SOEs in passenger rail in Denmark and Sweden from 1990 to 2015. Findings The paper shows how marketization results in a layered institutional set-up of public service delivery based on both competition and monopoly where the SOE becomes...

...Kirstine Zinck Pedersen; Peter Kjær Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the patient comes to be seen as a solution to governance problems. Design/methodology/approach The paper studies health policy discourse in Denmark from 1970 to 2000. Based on an analysis of national policy...

... studies Denmark New public management Governance Public companies Public transport In 2003-2004 it was decided to reorganise the sector under the Ministry of Transport (Longva et al., 2005). All agency-related tasks were moved to a new agency, the Danish Transport Authority...

...-level private sector participation approaches such as outsourcing and concession models remain limited and specialised financing instruments for health care in Denmark and Germany due to legal restrictions and lesser importance being placed on operational financial savings and improved management than...

.... Jan Stentoft Arlbjørn can be contacted at: jar@sam.sdu.dk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Public procurement Tendering Purchasing Sourcing Public tender Private sector organizations Cost effectiveness Denmark Public and academic interest for public sector management...

...Inga‐Lill Johansson; Lars Norén; Ewa Wikström; Loni Ledderer Purpose This paper aims to explore how healthcare organizations in Denmark transform modern ideas of patient‐centred preventive care into organizational practice. Specific attention is given to the influence of existing organizational...

...‐centred care. Patient care Information strategy Innovation Health services Denmark There is a widely held assumption that information technology can help in bridging gaps in healthcare and in placing patients at the centre of such care (PITAC, 2001 ; DK, 2003). At the same time...

..., managers and policymakers in countries with conditions similar to those of the Danish. Evanthia Kalpazidou Schmidt can be contacted at: eks@cfa.au.dk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Research Innovation Denmark Public sector organizations A study of innovation and dynamics...

... in Denmark and the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the authors' reflections on experience and analysis, drawing on the UK and Denmark as sites where there have been substantial efforts to undertake public services reform. It argues that there has been a weakening...

... on research conducted in 2003‐2004 [1] : a survey of the global orientation of Danish local authorities (2003), and on a number of more detailed studies of selected local authorities in Denmark, charting some of the transnational webs that they are logged into and their reasons for engaging in these relations...