In both Finland and Sweden, decentralisation has traditionally been an essential cultural policy aim. This article explores how, by pursuing decentralisation, the regional jurisdictions have presented with more possibilities to fulfil their purposes in this way, gain legitimacy policy. Based on analysis of political, legal, administrative documents, three main periods policies are identified: r...

Towards a different view of middle managers and their roles in strategic decentralisation processes-(7350 words) Summary Middle managers have often been blamed for being inflexible status quo defenders in organisational change processes. However, research results reported in this paper, drawn from in-depth case studies of company restructuring in Germany during the nineties, suggests that middl...

Abstract The demand for regional autonomy, which crystallised in the 1990s during municipal decentralisation, has profoundly marked Bolivia’s political history. This article examines reorientation of autonomic model since 2009 Constitution. “recentralisation” is explained by: (a) hegemony achieved by Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and its consequences local politics; (b) regulatory centralism, ...

The pressure on water resources caused by accelerated urbanization, the inadequate management and disposal of wastewater and the implementation of sophisticated treatment systems which sometimes with low efficiency and coverage are some of the problems to be solved with alternative and innovative strategies that be in harmony with the recent trends on water management. One of these strategies i...

This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be lower or higher under federalism...

This paper presents a formal framework for programming distributed applications capable of handling partial failures, motivated by the non-trivial interplay between failure handling and messaging in asynchronous distributed environments. Multiple failures can affect protocols at the level of individual interactions (alignment). At the same time, only participants affected by a failure or involv...

This study explores sensemaking as grounded in identity construction the context of workplace spirituality to uncover how individuals make sense process self-decentralisation. The paper adopts Buddhist notion non-self an analytical tool explore practitioners organisational contexts ‘empty out’ and de-centre self constructing negotiating self-identity workplace. Through 104 interviews with both ...