Budgeting has traditionally been the process through which governments decide how much
to spend on what, limiting expenditures to the revenues available and preventing …

A large number of Swedish public authorities produce 'platform of values' texts that present
core values. This article presents a study of how such texts and practices, including the core …

Purpose This paper investigates how different and sometimes conflicting approaches to
performance evaluations are hybridized in the day-to-day activities of a disciplined hybrid …

Implementing new value systems in municipal organizations to add societal value is
extremely challenging. Value tensions emerge inside public organizations when the …

A defining feature of contemporary public authorities in Sweden is the production of texts
labelled platform of values or core values. Previous research points to three main factors …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse and discuss the potential of the service-
dominant logic (SDL) as a tool for developing more effective public sector services in …

The child welfare service in Norway is in the spotlight internationally after the European
Court of Human Rights (EMD) convicted Norway of human rights violations in several child …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the complexity of administrative reform and its
implications. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on an extensive review of …

Budgeting has endured changes in management ideals, because it supports an
instrumental rationality in which organizations should use their own resources to produce …

ABSTRACT New Public Management (NPM) has added new aspects to the conflict between
political-bureaucratic steering and professional autonomy in the search for a substance use …