UK employment services: understanding provider strategies in a dynamic strategic action field
UK employment services: understanding provider strategies in a dynamic strategic action field
UK employment services are increasingly delivered by public, private and third sector organisations in quasi-markets that can be viewed as fields with actors (providers) competing for resources and position. The commissioning of the Work Programme produced an ‘episode of contention’ as fewer resources, shifting policy priorities and new contractual arrangements restructured relationships within the field. Drawing on empirical research the paper demonstrates how providers with different resources have navigated this period, employing strategies to manage challenger and incumbent roles and maintain their position in the field. The findings contribute to both field theory and our theoretical understanding of employment services
work programme commissioning, employment services, field theory, sector
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Taylor, Rebecca
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Rees, James
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Damm, Christopher
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1 April 2016
Taylor, Rebecca
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Rees, James
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Damm, Christopher
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Taylor, Rebecca, Rees, James and Damm, Christopher
(2016)
UK employment services: understanding provider strategies in a dynamic strategic action field.
Policy & Politics, 44 (2), .
(doi:10.1332/030557314X14079275800414).
Abstract
UK employment services are increasingly delivered by public, private and third sector organisations in quasi-markets that can be viewed as fields with actors (providers) competing for resources and position. The commissioning of the Work Programme produced an ‘episode of contention’ as fewer resources, shifting policy priorities and new contractual arrangements restructured relationships within the field. Drawing on empirical research the paper demonstrates how providers with different resources have navigated this period, employing strategies to manage challenger and incumbent roles and maintain their position in the field. The findings contribute to both field theory and our theoretical understanding of employment services
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Accepted/In Press date: 31 March 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 April 2016
Published date: 1 April 2016
Keywords:
work programme commissioning, employment services, field theory, sector
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Social Sciences
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Local EPrints ID: 375209
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/375209
ISSN: 0305-5736
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