... public administration system to one that encompasses professional management, competition and private sector styles of management practices (O 'Flynn, 2007 ; Parker and Guthrie, 1993 ; Hood, 1991). As noted by O 'Flynn (2007 , p. 354), “in the Australian experience, the 1980 s was characterised...

... research and the possibilities of what we refer to as a research renewal in the field of New Public Management reform. Christopher Humphrey ican be contacted at: chris.humphrey@mbs.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United Kingdom Public administration Public sector reform...

... government organization in Portugal to adopt double entry bookkeeping and was a crucial first step in the institutionalisation of the technique in Portuguese public administration. Design/methodology/approach Set firmly in the archive, this paper adopts new institutional sociology (NIS) to inform...

...Brendan McSweeney; Sheila Duncan Considers why different explanations of the same event can be produced and discusses the characteristics of a good explanation. It identifies and analyses a wide range of different published explanations of a seminal public administration policy‐change. It separates...

... it, have meant that in both personnel and physical location terms the laboratories have been sited away from the Whitehall policy departments. This in itself may have served to make these establishments “different” and distinguished as a group. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Public administration...