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Changing Organizational Logics in Major Austrian Enterprises Master's Re-publicization and establishment of public enterprises in Austria since the millennium Etienne Koo Changing organizational logics in major Austrian enterprises Master’s Thesis to confer the academic degree of Master of Science in the Master’s Programme General Management Author: Etienne Koo, M.Sc. 0855786 / 973 Submission: Institute of Organization and Global Management Education Thesis Supervisor: A.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Werner Auer-Rizzi Assistant Supervisors: Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Dorothea Greiling Assist.-Prof.in Dr.in Birgit Grüb Linz, January 2015 Statutory declaration I declare that I have authored this Thesis independently, that I have not used other than the declared sources / resources and that I have explicitly marked all material which has been quoted either literally or by content from the used sources. The present Master Thesis is identical to the electronically submitted version. Date, place Signature Changing organizational logics in major Austrian enterprises Etienne Koo Table of content 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 1 2. Research question ..................................................................................................................... 2 3. Methods of problem solution ................................................................................................... 2 4. Conspectus on concepts of public enterprise management ................................................... 3 4.1 Retrospection on significant developments in Austria ........................................................ 3 4.2 Public Management and its organizational logics ............................................................... 7 4.2.1 New Public Management ......................................................................................... 7 4.2.1.1 Conceptual premises ................................................................................ 8 4.2.1.2 Limits of New Public Management ....................................................... 10 4.2.2 New Public Governance ........................................................................................ 11 4.2.2.1 The concept and its idea of cooperation ................................................ 11 4.2.2.2 Public-Private Partnerships ................................................................... 12 4.2.3 Public choice .......................................................................................................... 13 4.2.3.1 Conceptual premises of public choice ................................................... 14 4.2.3.2 Rent seeking .......................................................................................... 15 5. The organization CIRIEC ...................................................................................................... 17 5.1 Structure at CIRIEC ........................................................................................................... 17 5.2 Research at CIRIEC ........................................................................................................... 18 5.3 Country analysis and policy trends .................................................................................... 19 5.3.1 Aim of the project .................................................................................................. 19 5.3.2 Methods of problem solution ................................................................................. 20 6. CIRIEC Austria ...................................................................................................................... 21 6.1 Methodology ...................................................................................................................... 21 6.2 Analysis of major Austrian enterprises .............................................................................. 23 6.2.1 ASFINAG .............................................................................................................. 24 6.2.1.1 Legal base .............................................................................................. 24 6.2.1.2 Main tasks .............................................................................................. 24 6.2.1.3 Organizational structure ........................................................................ 26 6.2.1.4 Relationship to Austrian politics ........................................................... 27 6.2.1.5 Organizational developments since the Great Recession ...................... 33 I Changing organizational logics in major Austrian enterprises Etienne Koo 6.2.2 Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft .............................................................................. 37 6.2.2.1 Legal base .............................................................................................. 37 6.2.2.2 Main tasks .............................................................................................. 38 6.2.2.3 Organizational structure ........................................................................ 39 6.2.2.4 Relationship to Austrian politics ........................................................... 40 6.2.2.5 Organizational developments since the Great Recession ...................... 42 6.2.3 Österreichische Bundesbahnen Holding AG ......................................................... 44 6.2.3.1 Legal base .............................................................................................. 44 6.2.3.2 Main tasks .............................................................................................. 45 6.2.3.3 Organizational structure ........................................................................ 46 6.2.3.4 Relationship to Austrian politics ........................................................... 48 6.2.3.5 Organizational developments since the Great Recession ...................... 51 6.2.4 Österreichische Bundesforste AG .......................................................................... 52 6.2.4.1 Legal base .............................................................................................. 52 6.2.4.2 Main tasks .............................................................................................. 53 6.2.4.3 Organizational structure ........................................................................ 56 6.2.4.4 Relationship to Austrian politics ........................................................... 57 6.2.4.5 Organizational developments since the Great Recession ...................... 58 6.2.5 Österreichische Industrieholding AG .................................................................... 61 6.2.5.1 Legal base .............................................................................................. 61 6.2.5.2 Main tasks .............................................................................................. 62 6.2.5.3 Organizational structure ........................................................................ 63 6.2.5.4 Relationship to Austrian politics ........................................................... 64 6.2.5.5 Organizational developments since the Great Recession ...................... 66 6.2.6 Österreichische Post AG ........................................................................................ 68 6.2.6.1 Legal base .............................................................................................. 69 6.2.6.2 Main tasks .............................................................................................. 69 6.2.6.3 Organizational structure ........................................................................ 71 6.2.6.4 Relationship to Austrian politics ........................................................... 72 6.2.6.5 Organizational developments since the Great Recession ...................... 73 6.2.7 Österreichischer Rundfunk ORF............................................................................ 78 6.2.7.1 Legal base .............................................................................................. 78 6.2.7.2 Main tasks .............................................................................................. 79 6.2.7.3 Organizational structure ........................................................................ 80 II Changing organizational logics in major Austrian enterprises Etienne Koo 6.2.7.4 Relationship to Austrian politics ........................................................... 83 6.2.7.5 Organizational developments since the Great Recession ...................... 88 6.2.8 OMV AG ............................................................................................................... 89 6.2.8.1 Legal base .............................................................................................. 89 6.2.8.2 Main tasks .............................................................................................. 91 6.2.8.3 Organizational structure ........................................................................ 91 6.2.8.4 Relationship to Austrian politics ........................................................... 97 6.2.8.5 Organizational developments since the Great Recession ...................... 98 6.2.9 Schienen-Infrastruktur-Dienstleistungsgesellschaft mbH ................................... 100 6.2.9.1 Legal base ............................................................................................ 100 6.2.9.2 Main tasks ...........................................................................................
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