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Purpose – Promoters of performance measurement are convinced that performance measurement can greatly contribute to an efficiency boost in the field of public services. The purpose of this article is to treat this as a hypothesis and examine this hypothesis from various theoretical...
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claim that bureaucracy has been replaced by post‐bureaucracy as a result of these changes. Design/methodology/approach – The … existence of post‐bureaucracy, per se , the paper argues that there has been a process of extending bureaucracy that cuts across … public and non‐public boundaries rather than the development of post‐bureaucracy per se . Findings – In examining the claims …
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, delay achievement of more culturally accommodating reform of the bureaucracy acceptable to all the country's principal …
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This paper analyzes how public administration may improve the service it offers to citizens through a suitable organizational culture; for this purpose, it starts by studying the specific features of the culture of public administration. In this respect, it analyzes the existing taxonomies in...
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Purpose – To present empirical research on the adoption of workload allocation models (WAMs) within the UK university system and relate these to the broader context of the new public management (NPM). Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on the historical sociology of the...
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Governance in the Polish public administration has contributed to strengthening of classical dysfunctions of bureaucracy …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the modern economic theory of bureaucracy developed by …/methodology/approach – After presenting a comparison of the modern economic theory of bureaucracy to the basic principles of NPM, this paper offers … a treatment of Breton and Wintrobe's modern economic theory of bureaucracy that uses the compelling episodic example of …
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify factors that approach and that separate the Brazilian bureaucracy … foundations of society and the Brazilian state that influence its bureaucracy and in the reforms undertaken in the state apparatus … Brazilian State still rely, seems to prevent the bureaucracy that was advocated by Max Weber from installing fully. Originality …
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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore the export of new public management (NPM) to developing countries and to describe and evaluate the introduction of these initiatives in very different environments from their origins. Design/methodology/approach – The article traces the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyse the factors influencing the relative success and failure of new public management (NPM) initiatives in the developing world, with particular reference to Singapore and Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – Secondary materials...
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