The paper's goal is to advance at understanding of the public management framework after
decades of administrative reform under the New Public Management (NPM) hegemony …

Tom Christensen Professor, Institutt for statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo tom.
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Recent theoretical developments suggest that management actions have different impacts
on outcomes in public and private organizations. This proposition is important to public …

Recent research has illustrated that demographic diversity influences the outcomes of public
sector organizations. Most studies have focused on workforce diversity; by comparison, little …

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 …

A central notion of performance management reform is that outcome-based accountability
should be accompanied by increased managerial authority, thereby granting managers the …

Innovation is argued to be of key importance in the public sector. Little is known about
possible sector differences in innovative behaviour. The stereotype in literature is that public …

Strategic planning and management was introduced in the public sector more than three
decades ago and has become a core component in many new public management reforms …

In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has
been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM …

Insightful and comprehensive and covering new subjects like globalization and IT, this text,
international in its approach, provides a thorough introduction to the key phases of the …