Verschuere, Bram; Barbieri, Dario - In: Public Management Review 11 (2009) 3, pp. 345-373
<title>Abstract</title> Autonomous bodies established by or reformed under NPM-inspired reforms should be, from a normative point of view, characterized by (1) structural disaggregation, (2) managerial freedom, (3) contractual relationships with the oversight authorities, and (4) tasks on the operations side...