...Alejandra Medina; James R. Thompson Purpose This study investigates doctrinal coherence as a factor in the implementation of New Public Management ( NPM ) reforms with a particular focus on its managerialist component. We explore whether NPM progenitors, the United Kingdom, the United States...

... to workplace bullying and offer insights to foster a safer and more respectful work culture within the public sector. By emphasizing organizational influences, this study adopts an institutional perspective, exploring how changes, particularly in the context of new public management (NPM) reforms, create...

... and applied to a broader variety of Swiss public administrations based on a survey. It is detected to what extent QMTs are used, since when and with what intensity by paying attention to the respective importance of new public management (NPM) and network governance (NG)-shaped QMTs. Findings All examined...

...Monia Castellini; Caterina Ferrario; Vincenzo Riso Purpose Since the 1980s, New public management has fostered the introduction of managerial approaches similar to those of the private sector in public administrations. Recently, the advantages of performing risk management in the public sector...

...Sven Siverbo; Tobias Johansson-Berg; Tina Øllgaard Bentzen; Marte Winsvold Purpose This study aims to examine the diffusion and implementation of trust-based management (TBM) in Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). TBM is a novel “anti-New Public Management (NPM)” innovation within...

... based on unstructured interviews of senior executives of Indian public sector enterprises covering oil and gas, aeronautical, power and transportation sectors. New public management (NPM) is used as a yardstick of “business-like” characteristics of public sector enterprises. Findings Despite heavy...

... rights only Public sector Zimbabwe Organisational climate Human resource management New public management Employee engagement The advent of NPM, which focused on transferring private-sector management principles to the public sector, switched the focus in the public sector from...

...Gyorgy Hajnal; Katarina Staronova Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine whether the incentivizing type of performance appraisal (typical of New Public Management) has indeed been superseded by a post-New Public Management (NPM), developmental type of performance appraisal in European...

...Imane Hijal-Moghrabi; Meghna Sabharwal; Kannan Ramanathan Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of New Public Management (NPM) reforms/practices on innovation in public sector organizations. Although much is written on NPM, the assumption that NPM reforms stimulate...

...Xiaolong Tian; Tom Christensen Purpose Compared with the worldwide reform trend of transcending new public management (NPM) during the past two decades, China's service-oriented government (SOG) reforms are a relatively different reform approach. After building an SOG was politically identified...

...Wahed Waheduzzaman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the transitional status of new public management (NPM) into new public governance (NPG) in a developing country context. Some authors, based on their research in developed countries, have claimed that NPM is dead. However...

...Naomi Aoki Purpose According to a widely accepted narrative, managerial reforms associated with new public management (NPM) originated in wealthy market economies and liberal democracies and were then promoted globally. However, scientific and systematic cross-national evidence of NPM practices...

...Jixia Mei; Ian Kirkpatrick Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how far plans to “modernize” hospital management in China are converging toward a global model of new public management (NPM) or represent a distinctive pathway. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws...

... raised by other stakeholders. Originality/value The research examined the new public management emphasis on the privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) vis-à-vis stakeholder groups, utilising the complementary concepts of stakeholder salience and issue salience. This research makes...

... less ideological and more evidence-based policy making. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only UK Health care Network governance New public management Digital era governance Public management reform The 30th anniversary...

... literature. Tiina Randma-Liiv can be contacted at: tiina.randma-liiv@ttu.ee 26 06 2017 02 07 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only E-governance Central and Eastern Europe New public management Neo-Weberian State New...

... and to the use that both theoreticians and practitioners may gain from adequately balancing the disciplines for the public interest. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a wide literature review of empirical and epistemological studies on new public management (NPM) and its evolvement across...

... to reconceptualize ideas of New Public Management (NPM) argued here to have been unhelpful for understanding public management. Originality/value The importance of NPM has been exaggerated previously. The argument here is that public management includes an enduring set of reforms, NPM does not. Public...

...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...

.... Design/methodology/approach The theoretical framework is built on the tension between New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM thinking, which frames the analysis of the brokerage model for elderly care services in the city of Tampere, Finland. The empirical data are derived from interviews, evaluation...