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New Public Management and Management Education: Foundations of Successful Management Reform
Author(s) -
Koch Rainer
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8500.00113
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , competition (biology) , new public management , business , public service , public administration , productivity , public management , value (mathematics) , service (business) , public sector , economics , political science , law , economic growth , marketing , politics , ecology , machine learning , computer science , biology , economy
International experience shows that the main objective of New Public Management (NPM) reform has predominantly been to overcome the current crisis in funding and public service delivery. The achieving this objective has involved adopting a philosophy of ‘more for less’ or, in other words, by enhancing ‘value for money’ in public service delivery. To this end,NPM reforms have generally aimed at replacing the inherited or traditional bureaucratic structure of management with a market – or at least a competition‐based – contract arrangement. As is the case in any contested market setting, the main concern of state and public administration is no longer merely to ensure a legally correct application of laws, but also to use scarce resources as ‘efficiently’ as possible in the pursuit of the desired ends of increased productivity and ‘more for less’.