Sweet Spot of Legitimacy

Christian Rosser is Chief Operating Officer at the Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine and a Lecturer at the Center of Competence for Public Management (KPM) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. As an expert on public management and administration, he has considerable experience in the management of hybrid organizations as well as research and teaching. His research on hybrid organizations, bureaucracy, and public administration has been published in various respected journals including Public Administration Review, Public Administration, The American Review of Public Administration, and Administration & Society. In 2009 he won the Marshall Dimock Award for the best lead article in Public Administration Review.Conradin Pfaff is Deputy Head of a policy advising and analysis unit and Head of a Regional Analysis Team at the General Secretariat of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection andSports. He spent over a decade as a civil servant at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Federal Department of Defence. In his various public administration roles, he accumulated extensive work experience in the fields of strategic analysis, geopolitical research and policy advising. At the same time, he developed a thorough understanding of the inner workings, decision-making processes and governance structures of Swiss public administration.

• 1. Setting the Scene.- Legitimacy as Condition for a Hybrid’s Success.- 3. Methodological Considerations.- 4. The Journey of the Sitem-Insel and the SCDH.- 5. Legitimacy Building in the Cases of the Sitem-Insel and the SCDH.- 6. Conclusion.