Quinn, Martin; Warren, Liz - In: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 14 (2017) 4, pp. 407-429
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore, if, similar to other management initiatives, new public management may be a repackaging of already existent concepts. Emerging in the 1970s and 1980s as an innovative way to manage public sector elements, new public management affected both the...