TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose To examine and account for an innovative project bid and delivery partnership by a fire and rescue service in an area (Eastern European migrant integration) usually thought to be beyond its remit. An interpretation of the findings will be based on public value theory.Methodology/approach The study examines three sets of conditions: national and local political and economic environments facilitating the grant bid and its success; a history of safety and safeguarding work by a specific fire and rescue service that made the bid plausible and leadership of the FRS in constructing both bid (for funding) and turning that into a delivery partnership. Methods included a focused analysis of existing academic work and government reports, observation of partnership meetings, interviews and a focus group.Findings That the success of the funding bid and delivery of objectives can be explained in terms of national government funding decisions relating to migrant integration; the recognition both locally and nationally that the specific FRS had the capacity, because of previous innovative partnership work, to manage all aspects of a sub-regional partnership; the ability of the FRS to manage the delivery of partnership objectives over a two year period; that the project realised a range of public value outcomes. It generated a range of public value outcomes. Individual managers took risks and worked ‘beyond authority’ but the partnership that they built and maintained was the principal entrepreneurial agent.Research implications The findings may have implications for the reconfiguration of sub-regional public service delivery.Originality/value The chapter is a study of a successful innovative, fire and rescue service led public sector partnership creating public value outcomes.
VL  - 6
SN  - 978-1-78560-821-6, 978-1-78560-820-9/2040-7246
DO  - 10.1108/S2040-724620160000006010
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-724620160000006010
AU  - Clarke Julian
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Beyond Authority: Public Value, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a UK Fire and Rescue Service
T2  - New Perspectives on Research, Policy & Practice in Public Entrepreneurship
T3  - Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 213
EP  - 236
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -