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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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Serving as magistrate at the French Cour des comptes : Navigating between tradition and modernity

Morin, Danielle - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 24 (2011) 6, pp. 718-750

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the work performed by French Cour des comptes magistrates as part of performance audits. The research objective is to understand who the magistrates are, what they do, how they do what they do, how they perceive their role, what authority they feel...

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Rethinking impact and redefining responsibility : The parameters and coordinates of accounting and public management reforms

Humphrey, Christopher; Miller, Peter - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 25 (2012) 2, pp. 295-327

Purpose – The starting point for the paper is an assessment of the impact of a 1993 special issue of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, which provided an interdisciplinary analysis of the pursuit of accountable management reforms in the UK public sector. From this assessment, the...

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Public sector accounting, accountability and austerity: more than balancing the books?

Bracci, Enrico; Humphrey, Christopher; Moll, Jodie; … - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 28 (2015) 6, pp. 878-908

Purpose – The era of austerity that has followed the outbreak of the global financial crisis has posed a myriad of challenges for public services, with demands for major cuts in government spending, the delivery of balanced budgets and zstrategies for deficit reduction. The purpose of this...

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Indonesian public sector accounting reforms: dialogic aspirations a step too far?

Harun, Harun; Van-Peursem, Karen; Eggleton, Ian R.C - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 28 (2015) 5, pp. 706-738

long subject to colonial, top-led, and military leadership. The findings demonstrate complexities and unintended outcomes …

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How hybrid managers act as “canny customers” to accelerate policy reform : A case study of regulator-regulatee relationships in the UK’s tax agency

Currie, Graeme; Tuck, Penelope; Morrell, Kevin - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 28 (2015) 8, pp. 1291-1309

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse role transition for professionals moving towards hybrid managerial roles. Specifically, the authors examine reforms to the national tax agency in the UK, focusing on attempts to shift hybrid managers away from a focus on tax compliance, to a...

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Understanding corporate governance in the Australian public sector : A social capital approach

Subramaniam, Nava; Stewart, Jenny; Ng, Chew; Shulman, Art - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 26 (2013) 6, pp. 946-977

. Findings – Aligned with the structural dimension, frequent departmental and leadership changes and the size and complexity of … governance. Aligned with the relational dimension, a culture of good working relationships between staff and strong leadership …

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Managing intellectual labour in Sweden and England

Barry, Jim; Berg, Elisabeth; Chandler, John - In: Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal 10 (2003) 3, pp. 3-22

Reports on findings from a research project, which has been examining the development of the New Public Management (NPM), a managerial reform movement for change in public sectors worldwide, and reports on a series of semi‐structured interviews with academics in Sweden and England as elements...

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The gender subtext of new public management‐based work practices in Swedish health care

Hedegaard, Joel; Ahl, Helene - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 32 (2013) 2, pp. 144-156

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical framework for researching gender equality implications of Clinical Microsystems, a new public management‐based model for multi‐professional collaboration and improvement of health care delivery. Design/methodology/approach –...

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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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