Abstract Vertrauen ist ein Kommunikationsmedium, das in den Ausprägungen persönliches und systemisches Vertrauen sowie Misstrauen in unterschiedlichen Systemtypen wirksam werden und soziale Beziehungen organisieren kann. Der Beitrag stellt Funktionen und Merkmale von Vertrauen sowie Misstrauen...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the conceptualisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as a mode of governance in marketisation via the perspective of historical institutionalism. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a qualitative case study of the...

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...

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)....

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....

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...

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....

Purpose – This article aims to describe and analyze the results of efforts to improve patient‐centered care (PCC) in psychiatric healthcare. Design/methodology/approach – Using the methodology of a qualitative case study, the authors studied three Swedish child and adolescent psychiatric...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss the idea that new public management (NPM) would be passé . Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on a review of existing theories. Findings – The article argues that NPM has two dimensions, namely the minimization of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore theoretically and empirically which institutional factors (including good governance ones) help public-private partnerships (PPP) in providing better infrastructural services, which would then in their turn lead to attracting more private...