This project explores performance evaluation and measurement systems and mechanisms in hybrid governance and the ways in which those systems shape decision-making rationalities of hybrid institutions. In the project, hybrid forms of governance refer to institutional settings that cover:
- mixed ownership between public and private actors
- goal incongruence and competing institutional logics between the logic of profit-seeking vis-à-vis the logic of effectiveness
- multiplicity of funding arrangements between the public and private actors
- public and private forms of financial and social control
Background
The project includes three levels and contexts of hybrid governance: hybrid systems (R&D), hybrid industries (cleantech) and hybrid organizations (health care). We use different types of data sets and methods, e.g. big data sets, documentary and interview data, computational network analysis and ecosystem analysis. We aim at novel theorizations of performance metrics in hybrid governance. These are related to both design and uses of performance metrics in different types of hybrid settings.
Goal
The project has three research objectives. The first is a descriptive objective of identifying the current state of performance metrics systems in hybrid settings at three levels: hybrid systems (in the project R&D), hybrid industries (cleantech) and hybrid organizations (health care). Second, we advance contemporary theorizations in hybrid governance through theoretico-conceptual reasoning, and through uses of big data analysis. Third, we aim to understand rationales and ambiguities of uses of performance measurements in hybrid activities.
The project aims to provide two important contributions. First, in the current research literature, there is a lack of theoretico-conceptual understanding of the evaluation of value and worth in hybrid arrangements. We aim to contribute to the theoretical understanding of hybrid governance and organizations by theorizing new ways of assessing the value of these institutional arrangements.
The second rationale of this project is to contribute to research tradition on performance evaluation and measurement. Hybrid activities provide an extremely complicated, yet potential context for discussing performance measurement problems.
Funding source
Academy of Finland
Contact persons
Jarmo Vakkuri
Professor, project director
jarmo.vakkuri [at] tuni.fi
+38 50 318 6042
Jan-Erik Johanson
Professor, vice-director of the project
jan-erik.johanson [at] tuni.fi
+358 50 318 5960