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The delivery of public services in developing countries is over‐centralised. One of the reasons for this is the presence of centralised decision‐making apparatus, which distances power from communities. The centralised decision making reduces accountability among public sector employees and...
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There has been a global phenomenon in public sector management which advocates a paradigm shift from administrative to managerial values. Governments have been able to put an ideological gloss on managerial strategies to suit local political agendas. The spread of this policy, where public...
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Purpose – Accounting and regulators are an integral part of new public management (NPM) across public sectors. This … one of the few academic studies of ILAs and the only one to date to explore the detrimental role of NPM arrangements in …
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creates an alignment between them to try to send patients elsewhere. New public management (NPM) reforms may consequently lead … the unintended consequences of NPM reforms at the micro level.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss the idea that new public management (NPM) would be passé . Design …/methodology/approach – The article is based on a review of existing theories. Findings – The article argues that NPM has two dimensions, namely …-called post-NPM era. Some countries are still implementing NPM-kind of reforms, either by downsizing or by introducing performance …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore theoretically and empirically which institutional factors (including good governance ones) help public-private partnerships (PPP) in providing better infrastructural services, which would then in their turn lead to attracting more private...
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Purpose – In recent years, New Public Management (NPM) has been used as the major framework for administrative reforms …
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(NPM) tendency. Although NPG is considered a contrast to NPM and its market incentives, it argues that the practices … emerging in tensions of NPM and NPG discourses indicate not a clear-cut shift away from NPM, but rather changes that combine … empirical unfolding of the tensions of contradicting, yet co-existing discourses of NPM and NPG and their effects in practice …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to qualitatively describe and explain the contemporary Finnish discourse of municipal managers. The emphasis within is on analyzing the encounters of the public sector management discourse and the private sector management discourse, and the effects that...
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mode. Originality/value – The paper contributes to the discussions about hybridity and re-centralisation in post-NPM era …
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