Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance ongoing debates on the organizational impact of wider public sector reform in the field of organizational change management by presenting an analysis the regionalization of the fire service in the Netherlands. How regionalization has impacted the work floor of local fire stations, where the workplace majority comprises volunteers, requires further empirical investigation. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply an interpretive approach and qualitative methodology to study how volunteer firefighters and public management make sense of public reform and the ensuing organizational change. Findings Findings indicate that while the fire service has professionalized, notable tensions have emerged between public management and volunteers, the regional and local level of fire service and between professionalism and volunteerism which are problematised in the paper. Originality/value The originality of the paper is found in the insight it provides in the sensemaking of volunteer firefighters and public managers of diverse of change regions and fire stations during the regionalization process by applying an emergent perspective to change.

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给火加油？公共改革背景下志愿消防员和公共管理人员的感性认识

目的本文的目的是通过对荷兰消防部门的区域化进行分析，从而推动有关组织变革管理领域更广泛的公共部门改革的组织影响的持续辩论。区域化如何影响当地消防局的工作场所，其中工作场所多数由志愿者组成，需要进一步的实证研究。设计/方法/方法作者运用解释性方法和定性方法研究志愿消防员和公共管理人员如何理解公共改革和随之而来的组织变革。调查结果表明，尽管消防服务已经专业化，但公共管理部门和志愿者之间却出现了明显的紧张关系，本文中存在问题的区域和地方消防水平以及专业精神和志愿精神之间。独创性/价值本文的独创性可以通过应用新兴观点对变化进行分析，从而在区域化过程中为各个变化区域和消防局的志愿消防员和公共管理人员提供有意义的见解中找到。