A paper sets out to explore how far has "New Public Management" (NPM) evolved within an Australian government services agency. NPM is placing government organizations on a competitive footing where they had a monopoly in their operations. The exploratory findings indicate that the subject...

This article focuses on organizational and social accountability reforms and employee behaviour in an Australian local authority. Using the institutional theory and behavioural literatures, it sought to understand how recent local government reforms in Australia influenced a local city council...