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(Mis)taking social responsibility? Implementing welfare state reform by private and non-profit organizations

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  • Nicolette Gestel
  • Susanne Boch Waldorff
  • Jean-Louis Denis

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This article relates institutional theory to the concept of organizational legitimacy with cognitive, moral, and pragmatic dimensions, to analyse how a Dutch national policy reform – aimed at expanding the social responsibility for sick leave and disability toward non-state organizations – is understood and enacted locally. Based on interviews in 52 organizations, the study highlights that implementing welfare state reform is predominantly based on pragmatic reasoning, and justified by specific moral and cognitive interpretations. The findings reveal that implementing reform is active institutional work by – paradoxically – restricted local agency, with disciplinary effects on a narrow range of actors.

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  • Nicolette Gestel & Susanne Boch Waldorff & Jean-Louis Denis, 2020. "(Mis)taking social responsibility? Implementing welfare state reform by private and non-profit organizations," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(12), pages 1739-1759, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:22:y:2020:i:12:p:1739-1759
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2019.1648696
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    1. Frolov, Daniil, 2021. "Transplantation of economic institutions: a post-institutional theory (expanded version)," MPRA Paper 108707, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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