... their clients when facing competing demands but paid less attention to how public servants define their agency. Design/methodology/approach Micro-level discourse analysis is applied to analyze how public servants represent their agency in client relationships, drawing on interviews with nine individuals...

...Anu Pynnönen; Tuomo Takala Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to qualitatively describe and explain the contemporary Finnish discourse of municipal managers. The emphasis within is on analyzing the encounters of the public sector management discourse and the private sector management...

...Chris Mackintosh; Andrew Adams; Kevin Harris Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyse the power dynamics and vested interest groups that shape the lack of evidence discourse, which is critical of the way evidence is produced within and for the sport for development (SFD...