Search results for "new public management"

2016

Abstract Public Service Platforms (PSPs) are a new type of technology platform. They are based in the philosophy of New Public Management (NPM) and support public services for citizens in quasi-markets. This article increases our understanding of the business models behind these PSPs in terms of their Value Propositions, structures, networks, and financing. We interviewed representatives from 14 PSP providers in four public sectors in Sweden: education, healthcare, elder care, and public pensions. We identified a “Traditional view” with its focus on public agencies and neutral information and an “Emerging view” that includes dialogues, user evaluations, long-term perspectives on choice, pro…

Public Sector Applications of the System Dynamics Approach

2010

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Carmine Bianchi on understanding public sector from different levels and perspectives, one by Mauro Lo Tennero on the aspiration and structure of Sicily to enforce public policy, and one by Nuno Videira and colleagues on the use of group model building in the public sector to concur sustainable policies.

Die Universität als Knowledge Factory. Zwischen New Public Management, Forschung als Zeitarbeit und Production prekären Humankapitals

2020

Dipo avere analizzato criticamente le trasformazioni in chiave neomanageriale del sistema italiano di istruzione terziaria superiore, il saggio si sofferma sui movimenti universitari del biennio 2008-2010

Professional Talk: Unpacking Professional Language

2020

Modern welfare states have increasingly been infused by principles from New Public Management. The implicit managerialism and standardization of these principles reduces the autonomy of professionals and displaces their discretionary power, replacing it with a standardized professional language that reproduces and reinforces specific narratives of knowledge. This chapter explores why and how we can reconnect the intimacy between word and experience by unpacking professional language. I address the following questions: What are the challenges of interviewing professionals? What is there to discover in the unpacking of professional language? And how do we unpack professional words, discourse …

Agencification and location: Does agency site matter?

2011

Published version of an article published in Public Organization Review, 11(2), 97-108. Also available from the publisher at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11115-010-0113-8 Two decades of New Public Management have placed agencifiction high on the agenda of administrative policy-makers. However, agencification (and de-agencification) has been one of the enduring themes of public administration. Agencies organized at arm's length from ministerial departments have fairly often been located outside of the capital or political centre. Although practitioners tend to assign some weight to central versus peripheral location as regards political-administrative behavior, this relationship has been almos…

The changing relationship between the academic profession and universities in Finnish higher education

2019

This doctoral dissertation describes how the relationship between the academic profession and universities has changed, and how the global trends, particularly New Public Management (NPM), managerialism and academic capitalism, as well as other societal expectations have influenced it in Finnish higher education. Prior studies show that these global trends have had various effects on academic profession. Additionally, they have driven universities to develop as an organisation. NPM and managerialism emphasise hierarchical management structures, control, performance evaluations, and efficiency, which are commonly incompatible with professional values and practices; collegial decision-making,…

Vanha ja uudistettu julkishallinto : julkishallintomallien ilmeneminen aluehallintovirastojen henkilöstön kokemana

2015

Tämän tutkimuksen aiheena ovat julkishallintomallit New Public Management (NPM), New Public Governance (NPG) ja Neo-Weberian State (NWS) ja niiden ilmeneminen nykyisten aluehallintovirastojen toiminnassa henkilöstön kokemusten perusteella. Julkishallintomallit vaikuttavat merkittävästi julkishallinnon organisointiin ja johtamisen toteutumiseen. Julkishallintomallien kehitykseen ja soveltamiseen liittyvät vahvasti erilaiset yhteiskunnalliset muutokset ja julkishallinnon uudistukset. Erilaiset mallit painottavat erilaisia periaatteita julkishallinnon uudistusten ja johtamisen toteutuksessa. NPM-malli on ollut viime vuosikymmenten valtavirran julkishallintomalli, kun taas NPG-malli ja NWS-mall…

Public Governance Principles in General Education School Management of Latvia

2015

In contemporary world the effect of globalisation and information technologies cause transformational processes of states` public management that promote the application of new managament approaches and principles in public institution management.The changes in the public managament have effected and still effects processes of management also in education. The increase of school autonomy, a stronger focus on the process of education and its results created the need to expand the application of contemporary public management principles also in the managament of education institutions. The main goal of the report is to analyze the principles of public management and their implementation in th…

La comunicazione nella pubblica amministrazione e nella scuola

2009

Diversity, Complexity and Ordinality: Mental Health Services Outside the Institutions—Service Users’ and Professionals’ Experience-Based Practices an…

2021

In conjunction with the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals, social workers have been commissioned to help service users in their daily living in their homes and in the community. The consequences of these changes for experience-based knowledge and practices in their contexts remain relatively unknown. In this study, eighteen service users and the social workers they described as helpful for them were interviewed. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using Thematic Analysis. The following themes emerged: “Here, there and everywhere”, “Doing, being, becoming”, “Talking” and “Order, planning and improvisation” concerning the contradictions service users and professionals m…