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Effective leadership in managing NPM-based change in the public sector

Kellis, Dana S.; Ran, Bing - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 28 (2015) 4, pp. 614-626

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find underlying causes of leadership failure in NPM-based reforms in the … public service, and propose leadership principles to guard against such failure as leaders meet the demands of a changing … administrative wrongdoing can occur. The principles of leadership found in NPLT, which advocates values-based, relationship …

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Civil Society Regimes and School Choice Reforms: Evidence from Sweden and Milwaukee

Henrekson, Ebba; Andersson, Fredrik O.; Wijkström, Filip; … - In: Nonprofit Policy Forum 11 (2020) 1

Abstract We examine the effects of school choice reforms implemented in the early 1990s in two different settings: Sweden and Milwaukee (WI, U.S.). We show how both the ideological and theoretical arguments for choice reform were similar in the two contexts, yet the consequences in terms of the...

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New public management and budgeting practices in Tanzanian Central Government

Goddard, Andrew; Mkasiwa, Tausi Ally - In: Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies 6 (2016) 4, pp. 340-371

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the budgeting practices in the Tanzanian Central Government. New budgeting reforms were introduced following exhortations from the bodies such as the UN, the World Bank and the IMF and reflect the new public management (NPM)....

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Reform as regulation – accounting, governance and accountability in UK local government

Goddard, Andrew - In: Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 1 (2005) 1, pp. 27-44

This paper is an attempt to theorise the recent changes to accounting practices in local government in the UK. The principal theory used is regulation theory, which incorporates aspects of hegemony theory and governance. Regulation theory attempts to explain major changes in national economic...

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Managing the knowledge capital of public administrations

Ruggiero, Pasquale - In: Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 4 (2008) 2

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Improving public sector accountability and transparency in Bangladesh: the role of the comptroller and auditor general office and the public accounts committee of parliament

Hossain Khan, Sajjad - In: Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 6 (2010) 3

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Modernizing public services: subtle interplays of politics and management

Arnaboldi, Michela; Lapsley, Irvine; Dal Molin, Martina - In: Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 12 (2016) 4, pp. 547-567

Purpose This paper aims to examine the trajectory of public management reforms in Italy. This experience indicates the complexity of managerialism in countries with a legalistic system and where public administration cultures have been, and continue to be, embedded in politics....

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Performance management model

Isaac Mwita, John - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 1, pp. 19-37

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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Managerialism in local government – Victoria, Australia

Van Gramberg, Bernadine; Teicher, Julian - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 5, pp. 476-492

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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New public management, accounting, regulators and moral panics

Lee, Bill - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 25 (2012) 3, pp. 192-202

Purpose – Accounting and regulators are an integral part of new public management (NPM) across public sectors. This article aims to look at one of their potential drawbacks by investigating how a policy was deemed as a failure by regulators because of its limited financial controls....

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