Table Of ContentCorporatisation in
Local Government
Context, Evidence and Perspectives
from 19 Countries
Edited by
Marieke Van Genugten · Bart Voorn
Rhys Andrews · Ulf Papenfuß · Harald Torsteinsen
Corporatisation in Local Government
Marieke Van Genugten
Bart Voorn • Rhys Andrews
Ulf Papenfuß • Harald Torsteinsen
Editors
Corporatisation in
Local Government
Context, Evidence and Perspectives from
19 Countries
Editors
Marieke Van Genugten Bart Voorn
Institute for Management Research Institute for Management Research
Radboud University Radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Rhys Andrews Ulf Papenfuß
Cardiff Business School Zeppelin University
Cardiff University Friedrichshafen, Germany
Cardiff, UK
Harald Torsteinsen
Department of Social Sciences
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Tromsø/Harstad, Norway
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ontents
1 Corporatisation in Local Government: An Introduction 1
Harald Torsteinsen, Rhys Andrews, Ulf Papenfuß,
Marieke Van Genugten, and Bart Voorn
Part I Anglo Saxon Countries 19
2 Municipally Owned Corporations in Canada 21
Joseph Lyons, Zachary Spicer, and David Taylor
3 Municipally Owned Corporations in England and Wales:
A Tale of Two Countries 49
Rhys Andrews and Laurence Ferry
4 Municipally Owned Corporations in Israel: Local
Initiative and the Pursuit of Flexibility in a Centralised
Context 73
Eran Razin and Anna Hazan
Part II Central East European Countries 97
5 Municipally Owned Corporations in Hungary 99
György Hajnal and Bence Kucsera
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6 Municipally Owned Corporations in Poland: Delivery of
Local Public Services 119
Julita Łukomska, Paweł Swianiewicz, Katarzyna Szmigiel-
Rawska, Marta Lackowska, and Joanna Krukowska
7 Private Law, Public Control: Municipally Owned
Corporations in Slovakia 143
Emília Sicá̌ ková-Beblavá and Matúš Sloboda
Part III Central Federal European Countries 169
8 Municipally Owned Corporations in Austria: High
Popularity, Low Transparency 171
Sanja Korać and Iris Saliterer
9 Corporatised Public Service Provision of Local
Governments in Germany: A Key Topic for UN-SDGs
and Promising Public Corporate Governance
Developments 197
Ulf Papenfuß
10 Corporatisation in Swiss Local Government 221
Claire Kaiser, Reto Steiner, and Jana Machljankin
Part IV Napoleonic Countries 243
11 Municipally Owned Corporations in France: An
Emerging Tool of Public Engineering 245
Gwenaël Leblong-Masclet
12 Municipally Owned Corporations in Greece: Historical
Evolution and the Current Situation 265
Athanasia Triantafyllopoulou and Theodore N. Tsekos
13 Municipal Corporatisation in Italy 291
Giuseppe Grossi and Simone Cocciasecca
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14 Municipal Corporatisation in Portugal: From Mania to
Depression 315
António F. Tavares and Pedro J. Camões
15 Corporatisation in Spanish Local Government:
Governing the Diversity 335
Germà Bel, Marc Esteve, Juan Carlos Garrido-Rodríguez,
and José Luis Zafra-Gómez
16 Corporatisation in Local Government: The Case of Turkey 357
Evrim Tan and Irmak Özer
Part V Nordic Countries 383
17 Municipally Owned Corporations in Denmark: Historical
Continuity and Contemporary Complexities in a Local
State-Centred Reform Trajectory 385
Andrej Christian Lindholst
18 Municipal Corporatisation in the Netherlands: A Vehicle
for Inter- municipal Cooperation 409
Bart Voorn and Marieke Van Genugten
19 Corporatisation in Norwegian Local Government 429
Jan Erling Klausen and Harald Torsteinsen
20 Municipally Owned Corporations in Sweden 455
Anna Thomasson
Part VI C onclusion 473
21 Corporatised Local Public Service Provision:
Comparative Evidence from 19 Countries and
Research Agenda 475
Bart Voorn, Rhys Andrews, Ulf Papenfuß,
Harald Torsteinsen, and Marieke Van Genugten
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ist of ontributors
Rhys Andrews is Professor of Public Management in Cardiff Business
School. His research interests focus on the management and performance
of public organisations. He is the co-author of Strategic Management and
Public Service Performance and Public Service Efficiency: Reframing
the Debate.
Germà Bel is a Full Professor in the School of Economics at Universitat
de Barcelona. His research interests focus on public sector reform, with
special emphasis on local government. His more than 120 articles have
been appeared in JCR journals, and he has also published several books.
He is the editor of Local Government Studies.
Pedro J. Camões is a member of the Research Centre in Political Science
at the University of Minho. His articles have appeared in some of the best
ranked journals in public administration and political science. He co-
ordinated several externally funded research projects on municipal effi-
ciency, public procurement, and public sector design.
Simone Cocciasecca successfully completed his PhD in “corporate gov-
ernance of state-owned enterprises in Italy” at the University of Chieti and
Pescara, Italy. His main research interests concern appointment of public
sector organisations and governance of public enterprises.
Marc Esteve is Full Professor in the School of Public Policy at University
College London and a visiting professor at ESADE-Ramon Llull
University. His primary research interests focus on understanding how
individual characteristics influence decision making. His articles have been
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published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory,
Public Administration Review, PlosOne, and Public Administration.
Laurence Ferry is Professor and Head of Accounting in Durham
University Business School and a Parliament Academic Fellow 2018/19 at
the UK House of Commons reporting on arrangements for audit and
inspection of local authorities in England. His research interests focus on
accounting, performance, and fairness of public organisations, especially
local public bodies. He is the co-author of Public Service Accountability:
Rekindling a Debate.
Juan Carlos Garrido-Rodríguez is PhD Lecturer in Accounting at the
Universidad de Granada. His research interests focus on local govern-
ment, public administration, and transparency of local governments.
Several of his articles have been published in international scholarly jour-
nals on these topics.
Giuseppe Grossi is Research Professor of Accounting at Nord University,
Norway, and Professor of Public Management and Accounting at
Kristianstad University, Sweden. His research interests concern hybrid
organisations, smart cities and public budgeting. He is the editor-in-chief
of Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management
(Emerald), guest editor, and the editorial board member of several
journals.
György Hajnal is Professor and the director of the Institute of Economic
and Public Policy, Corvinus University of Budapest, and a research profes-
sor at the ELKH Centre for Social Sciences. His research interests extend
to public management reforms, the structural dynamics of government
bureaucracy, and the bureaucratic implications of illiberal transformation.
Anna Hazan teaches at the School of Political Sciences, University of
Haifa, and at the Department of Public Administration and Policy, Sapir
Academic College. She served for many years as the director of the Local
Development Department of Israel’s Ministry of Interior and has authored
numerous publications on local government in Israel.
Claire Kaiser is a research associate at the Institute of Public Management
at the ZHAW School of Management and Law (Switzerland). After com-
pleting her MSc, she worked at the Competence Center for Public
Management at the University of Bern, where she also obtained her PhD
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in administrative sciences. Her research focuses on local governance and
public sector reforms.
Jan Erling Klausen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of oslo, Norway. His research focuses mainly on municipal pol-
icy and management, local government reform and local democracy. Klausen
co-authored a study about corporate governance and democratic account-
ability (Journal of Public Policy, 2021) and a recent comparative study of
Municipal Territorial Reforms of twenty-first Century in Europe (2022).
Sanja Korać is Full Professor of Public Management at the University of
Speyer, Germany, and a lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
Her main research interests are performance management in public sector
entities, governmental financial management and accounting, resilience in
public organisations, and public personnel management and leadership.
Joanna Krukowska (PhD) is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Local Development and Policy, Faculty of Geography and Regional
Studies, University of Warsaw. Her research interest is local and regional
development policy, democracy, and local leadership. She has been work-
ing at the Ministry of Regional Development, in the media, and for NGos.
Bence Kucsera is a PhD candidate at Political Science Doctoral School of
the Corvinus University of Budapest. His PhD research relates to describ-
ing and explaining the changes in Hungarian municipally owned corpora-
tions. In addition, he is conducting research related to the evolution of
Hungarian business associations.
Marta Lackowska is Professor at the University of Warsaw, working in
the Department of Local Development and Policy, at the Faculty of
Geography and Regional Studies. Her research interests are inter- municipal
cooperation, central-local relations, metropolitan governance, and
Europeanisation. She is a board member of European Urban Research
Association.
Gwenaël Leblong-Masclet is a territorial administrator and deputy gen-
eral officer in Brest Metropole (West of France, 210,000 inhabitants). He
is an associate expert in a research programme about Territories and Public
Action Changes, in Sciences Po Rennes (CNRS-ARENES).
Andrej Christian Lindholst is Associate Professor of Public Management
at the Centre for organisation, Management, and Administration,
