Abstract Have New Public Management (NPM) reforms in public organizations improved the
quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of public policies? NPM reforms …

A central proposition of New Public Management (NPM) theory was tested by analyzing 519
studies on the impact of NPM reforms across Europe to establish whether performance …

This article reviews the New Public Management (NPM) literature in central and eastern
Europe (CEE) with the aim of assessing whether reforms have 'worked'. Increasingly …

ABSTRACT New Public Management has been around for a quarter of a century in
European public sectors, yet despite the movement's emphasis on indicators and evidence …

The literature on public management reform exhibits two intertwined convergence myths.
First, a world‐wide consensus on a new public management (NPM) reform agenda is seen …

For many years the proponents of New Public Management (NPM) have promised to
improve public services by making public sector organizations much more 'business‐like' …

This paper assesses our state of knowledge concerning the 'New Public
Management'(NPM) reforms which seem to have been launched in so many countries. In the …

It is interesting that NPM reforms had been going on in several countries for between ten
and fifteen years before the academic community began much direct assessment of whether …

Abstract In 1991, Christopher Hood made a substantial contribution to public administration
research when he formulated the concept of new public management (NPM). His article can …

This article assesses the impact of New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms in
European countries as perceived by top public sector officials. Using data from an executive …