The Influence of the Organizational Culture of Andalusian Local Governments on the Localization of Sustainable Development Goals

Jesús Delgado-Baena, Juan de Dios García-Serrano, Oscar Toro-Peña and Rocío Vela-Jiménez
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Jesús Delgado-Baena: Department of Social Work and Social Services, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 41013 Seville, Spain
Juan de Dios García-Serrano: Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 41013 Seville, Spain
Oscar Toro-Peña: Ágora Research Group, Universidad de Huelva, 21004 Huelva, Spain
Rocío Vela-Jiménez: Research Institute on Policies for Social Transformation, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 41704 Seville, Spain

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-23

Abstract: Local governments are key to establishing public policies linked to the 2030 Agenda. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), public innovation is essential, and one of the essential pillars is transversality and partnerships (internal and external). This implies a transformative political, technical, and institutional culture that some authors have called, in the case of Andalusia, Spain, a “culture of solidarity”, as many of the elements of the 2030 Agenda are established within local organizations. This article aims to answer the question: Do Andalusian local authorities have an organizational culture and structure that facilitates the localization of the SDGs? To do so, it analyzes the conditioning factors, facilitators, and barriers that exist in local governments to advance in the mainstreaming of the localization and development processes of the 2030 Agenda in their territories. A study has been carried out on the perception of local technicians and the assessment of their own organization aligned with the 2030 Agenda. The results obtained indicate that local governments in Andalusia have made efforts to establish social actions and policies against poverty. The 2030 Agenda is perceived as an opportunity to transform local entities, with more open, collaborative, transversal, and interconnected institutions.

Keywords: public policies; local development; decentralization; 2030 Agenda; human development; multilevel governance; organizational culture; culture of solidarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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