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dc.contributor.authorKirsop-Taylor, NA
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-14T13:22:11Z
dc.date.issued2017-09-06
dc.description.abstractMany European governments have instituted programmes of fiscal austerity in response to the global financial crash of 2008. These austerity programmes have sought to cut public sector spending, including to environmental management organisations which tend to be heavily reliant on public funding. This curtailment of funding impacts upon organization’s business models, reduces their abilities to conduct environmental management activities, and drives them towards new organizational responses and strategies. After seven years of austerity in the UK, this paper engages environmental management organisations within the North Devon UNESCO biosphere reserve partnership to seek to understand how they have been affected by, and have organizationally responded to, the UK austerity agenda. Through eighteen semistructured interviews it was discovered that, whilst many of the assumed negative impacts of austerity have been borne out, this period has also forced organisations to critically re-evaluate their strategy and governance. The outcome of which is that organisations have tended to adopt individual and mixed strategies of diversifying, restructuring, specialising, avoiding, ignoring or co-operating in response to austerity. Each response or combination of responses brings its own risks, rewards, and outcomes. Considering the breadth of existing international austerity programmes, and the scope for further austerity in the wake of new global financial shocks, this study points towards responses and strategies that organisations can adopt to survive, and perhaps thrive in austere times.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationEuropean Consortium of Political Research 2017 General Conference, 6-9 September 2017, Oslo, Norwayen_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/37090
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherEuropean Consortium for Political Researchen_GB
dc.rights© 2017 European Consortium for Political Researchen_GB
dc.titleDiversify, specialise, reform, or co-operate: analysis of the strategic responses from natural resource management organisations living under the shadow of austerityen_GB
dc.typeConference paperen_GB
dc.date.available2019-05-14T13:22:11Z
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscripten_GB
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dcterms.dateAccepted2017-05-01
rioxxterms.versionAMen_GB
rioxxterms.typeConference Paper/Proceeding/Abstracten_GB
refterms.dateFCD2019-05-14T13:20:26Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2019-05-14T13:22:14Z
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