... Eldercare System of choice Marketization Local government Elements of new public management (NPM) and marketization have pervasively changed the Swedish welfare state and thus also the eldercare (Vabø and Szebehely, 2012 ; Feltenius, 2017 ; Moberg, 2017 , 2023 ; Blix and Jordahl, 2021...

...Lene Tolstrup Christensen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make an empirical-based conceptualization of the contemporary domestic state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as domestic institutional market actors (IMAs) in the marketization of public service delivery. Design/methodology/approach...

...Mie Plotnikof Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address studies of New Public Governance (NPG) as a post-New Public Management (NPM) tendency. Although NPG is considered a contrast to NPM and its market incentives, it argues that the practices emerging in tensions of NPM and NPG discourses...

...Morten Hansen and Andrej Christian Lindholst; Wilma Gallet Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges confronting Christian-based organisations operating in the employment services quasi-market in Australia. It focuses on the tensions that arise for these organisations...

...Morten Hansen and Andrej Christian Lindholst; Morten Balle Hansen; Andrej Christian Lindholst Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the IJPSM special issue on marketization to clarify the conceptual foundations of marketization as a phenomenon within the public sector...