Systemic evaluation of regional management in Austria. Short version (Systemische Evaluierung des Regionalmanagements in Österreich. Kurzfassung)

Topics

• Policies and instruments
• Regional value added

Abstract

The evaluation of 31 Austrian regional management institutions was ordered by the Federal Chancellery. The evaluation was mainly based on interviews with regional managers, representatives of the governments of the federal provinces and diverse regional actors. The evaluation was accompanied by a steering group with representatives of the federal chancellery, the governments of the federal provinces and regional management institutions. In the view of the authors regional management has a personal dimension (the regional manager with his/her activities, an organisational dimension (regional management institution with defined regional tasks) and a procedural dimension (regional change management and New Public Management in order to deal with regional challenges). The federal Chancellery has – together with the federal provinces – initiated the establishment of regional management organisations in 1995 when Austria acceded to the EU. Although different in their structures and tasks they all have the main objective of contributing to regional development by entrepreneurial commitment in the following fields: (1) Developing and handling regional projects and programmes; (2) Informing about EU Structural funds and EU programmes; (3)Opening up financial resources from EU budgets for the regions; (4) Networking between regional actors and organisations.

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