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Qualifying for leadership or control masquerading as enlightenment?

Milliken, John - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 15 (2002) 4, pp. 281-295

The 1988 Education Reform Act marked a fundamental shift in direction for the education service and represented a radical shift from the past. One of the major areas of change has been on existing relationships and the subsequent challenge to traditional structures and practices....

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Factors affecting the performance of water utility companies

Guerrini, Andrea; Romano, Giulia; Campedelli, Bettina - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 24 (2011) 6, pp. 543-566

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to carry out an analysis of Italian water utility companies to determine whether their performance was related to certain relevant variables that have been broadly discussed in the existing literature. Among these are ownership structure, size and...

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Conflict of Multiple Interests in Cost‐Benefit Analysis

Mustafa, Husain - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 3, pp. 16-26

Most analytical techniques assign no weight to political factors even though they may have the strongest explanatory power of all variables considered. As they are generally practised, these techniques have the extraordinary deficiency of obscuring the problem of conflict of multiple interests....

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New Developments in Performance Measures of Public Programmes

Faucett, Allen; Kleiner, Brian H. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 3, pp. 63-70

Headlines on all levels of government speak of the pending crisis in public sector services: expect to pay more for less. Budget deficit, once only a concern of the federal level, is a worry in state capitals and municipalities. Additionally, an ever‐looming question at this time of economic...

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Costing and Pricing of Police Services

Edmonds, Dwight; McCready, Douglas - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 5, pp. 4-14

, efficiency in terms of appropriate allocation of resources is enhanced. Also, the police board is then in a better position to …

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Market Mechanisms and the Management of Health Care

Lapsley, Irvine - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 6, pp. 15-25

of an efficient NHS and the conflicts which this causes in an organization which was based on the aim of equity. In …

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A New Era in Costing and Budgeting

Alam, Manzurul; Lawrence, Stewart - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 6, pp. 41-51

The effectiveness of the reforms of the health sector in New Zealand will depend on the development of new accounting and information systems. The reforms have been rapid and significant. Increasing attention is being given to the development of costing and budgeting as a part of the reform...

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Competitive intensity and technical efficiency in public sector firms: evidence from India

Ramaswamy, Kannan; Renforth, William - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 9 (1996) 3, pp. 4-17

restricted industries without changing ownership to private investors ‐ is likely to provide similar efficiency gains. Examines … competition from private sector firms. Shows, from analysis of variance of efficiency indicators of a longitudinal sample of 108 … of technical efficiency of state‐owned enterprises that face competitive conditions. Provides a persuasive case for …

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The need to mobilize government learning in the Republic of Slovenia

Saner, Raymond; Yiu, Lichia - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 9 (1996) 5/6, pp. 51-61

Highlights the unique difficulties of Slovenia’s current public administrative system which has to find ways to change from the previous Yugoslav system to a more modern administrative system. First describes Slovenia’s economic and political make‐up and proceeds with a description and...

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Civil service reform in Tanzania

McGill, Ronald - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 12 (1999) 5, pp. 410-419

capacity. In that context, the paper outlines the modalities for generating organisation and efficiency reforms in the … building of capacity. It looks at the resulting impact of the organisation and efficiency reforms. Finally, it reviews the …

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