Building conditions in Norwegian local governments: trends and determinants

Hopland, Arnt O.; Kvamsdal, Sturla F.

doi:10.1108/f-10-2017-0101

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“…These results suggest that the facility managers must get high-quality information from the units and be highly competent to convince fragmented local councils to allocate sufficient resources to facilities management. This is consistent with the findings that fragmented local councils systematically give maintenance low priority (Borge and Hopland, 2017;Hopland and Kvamsdal, 2018a).…”

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“…Local government purpose buildings are important for the production of welfare services, and it is expensive to build and maintain them. Even in affluent countries such as Norway, many local governments do not maintain their buildings sufficiently to maintain a good technical condition (Borge and Hopland, 2012;Borge and Hopland, 2017;Hopland and Kvamsdal, 2018a).…”

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“…As Borge and Hopland (2017) and Hopland and Kvamsdal (2018a), we use political fragmentation, measured by the familiar Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HH), as a proxy for myopic policy-making:…”

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Critical success factors for maintenance of local public buildings

Hopland

Kvamsdal

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate a survey on critical success factor for the maintenance of local public buildings and how reported score values and factor rankings depend on characteristics (contingencies) of the local governments that participated. Design/methodology/approach The authors use data from a large-scale survey of Norwegian local governments that covered 66 per cent of all local governments and 80 per cent of the population. The authors combine these data with contingent information from public registers on demographics, fiscal, political and geographical characteristics. The authors run regressions to determine whether contingencies affect survey results. They further study how score values vary with a key contingent factor. Findings The main result of this paper is that the reported importance of critical success factors is contingent on local government population levels. A comparison of importance rankings based on population quartiles shows that ranking orders change, both between quartiles and from the overall ranking, and that certain factors show systematic changes. Further, the authors find that when controlling for sampling error, groups of factors should be considered as equally important. This result holds both for the full sample ranking and for rankings within population quartiles. Originality/value The results of this paper have implications for all survey-based investigations of critical success factors where contingent information on respondents are available. Contingencies need to be taken into consideration, both when assessing rankings according to some criteria and when comparing actual score values.

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Critical success factors for maintenance of local public buildings

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Kvamsdal

2019

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“…In addition, much of the aggregated research on building renovation and maintenance has been characterized by explorations and focuses on different challenges treated separately (Karvonen, 2013; Palm and Reindl, 2016; Nielsen et al , 2016; Palm and Reindl, 2017). However, the actual challenge for officials working in these contexts appears to be less about solving a number of separate problems (usually portrayed as juggling two dichotomies) and more about navigating a multitude of different (institutional) logics and perspectives to develop integrated practices and solutions (Bordass and Leaman, 2013; Junghans, 2013; Thoresson, 2015; Tucker et al , 2016; Gluch and Svensson, 2018) that are adapted to fit each individual organization and its situated institutional surroundings, rather than any normative template of “best practices” (Hopland and Kvamsdal, 2019).…”

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Navigating the logics of changing public facilities management

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Löwstedt

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how a multitude of demands and challenges faced by public facilities management organizations’ (PFMOs) particularly in relation to a large building stock in need of measures’ are acted upon and negotiated in practice. Specifically this study asks: What are the institutional logics (IL) that constitute the organizational context of PFMOs? How does an institutional worker navigate to create change in PFMOs? Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a case study of a public facility management organization and include interviews, a questionnaire, observations and organizational documents. The analytical focus is the work of a single actor, a project manager portrayed as “the navigator” and his institutional work (IW) of developing and implementing new organizational practices, to meet current challenges and develop a more “strategic” facility management. Findings The complex institutional landscape faced by officials in PFMOs enforce officials responsible for implementing and developing new practices to become navigators. Originality/value The findings offer a rich practice-based account of the day-to-day IW carried out by actors that try to navigate complex institutional landscapes, consisting of multiple and, at times, conflicting IL. Current challenges for PFMOs are to be portrayed as multi-dimensional and the actual work to transform organizational practices in this context is highly complex, unordered and messy. The findings point towards a need for new competences and roles to tackle current challenges; geared towards integrating different logics and perspectives.

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“…Borge and Hopland (2017) andHopland and Kvamsdal (2019) document that poor condition of public buildings, including schools is an important concern in Norwegian local governments.5 Hopland and Nyhus (2016) find a positive correlation between satisfaction with school facilities and self-reported effort-level in school. This can potentially partly explain the positive effect from building conditions on student outcomes.Journal of Facility Management Education and Research, 3(1):1-7…”

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On the difficulties of evaluating the effect of school facility conditions on student outcomes

Hopland¹

2019

Journal of Facility Management Education and Research

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This paper presents various empirical strategies used to analyze the effect from school facilities on student outcomes, and discusses strengths and weaknesses by the methods. A key challenge in studies of student outcomes is that outcomes are affected by many factors and that many of these factors are correlated with each other. Moreover, some factors are difficult to measure, and cannot be observed in data. Hence, it is difficult to avoid problems related to omitted variables bias and the estimated correlations can thus often not be interpreted as causal effects. It is important to be aware of how difficult it is to move on from a correlation to a causal effect. If researchers wrongfully draw causal inferences one risks misleading policy makers into allocating resources to the wrong factors.

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Building conditions in Norwegian local governments: trends and determinants

Cited by 12 publications

References 19 publications

Critical success factors for maintenance of local public buildings

Critical success factors for maintenance of local public buildings

Navigating the logics of changing public facilities management

On the difficulties of evaluating the effect of school facility conditions on student outcomes

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