Environmental change, leadership succession and incrementalism in local government

Boyne, George Alexander, Ashworth, Rachel Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7274-2164 and Powell, Martin 2001. Environmental change, leadership succession and incrementalism in local government. Journal of Management Studies 38 (6) , pp. 859-878. 10.1111/1467-6486.00262

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Abstract

A theoretical model of strategic budgetary choices in local government is developed and tested. The model assumes that expenditure decisions are a function of changes in environmental circumstances and the characteristics of local leaders. Environmental change is operationalized through measures of workload, munificence and regulatory controls. Leadership succession is defined as the turnover in managerial and political élites. These environmental and leadership variables are included in a multivariate statistical model of budgetary incrementalism. The model is tested on the spending decisions of 402 English local authorities from 1981 to 1996. The empirical results suggest that the extent of budgetary change is influenced strongly by environmental change but weakly by leadership succession. Furthermore, environmental constraints became tighter during the study period. The characteristics of public sector organizations that impose limits on the strategic choices of new leaders are identified.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing
ISSN:	1467-6486
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2022 09:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/2586

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