ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00778.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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This article discusses: the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as ‘new public management’(NPM); the intellectual provenance of those ideas; explanations for their apparent persuasiveness in the 1980 s; and criticisms which have been made of the new doctrines. Particular attention is paid to the claim that NPM offers an all‐purpose key to better provision of public services. This article argues that NFM has been most commonly criticized in terms of a claimed contradiction between ‘equity’ and ‘efficiency’ values, but that any critique which is to survive NPM's claim to ‘infinite reprogrammability’ must be couched in terms of possible conflicts betweenadministrativevalues. The conclusion is that the ESRC'S Management in Government’ research initiative has been more valuable in helping to identify rather than to definitively answer, the key conceptual ques

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00779.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Hypotheses derived from the public choice and other literatures on the relationship between ownership and performance were tested on ten UK organizations which had undergone status change, within the public sector or between the public and private sectors, in the last twenty years. Results on tests of performance in productivity, employment, and financial ratios against change in status, competition and internal management failed in most cases to support the thesis that change in ownership improves enterprise performance, even in its more sophisticated form where ownership change is assumed to be accompanied by increased competition and improved managerial incentives.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00780.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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The Conservative government announced the Financial Management Initiative in 1982. This article is based on research into the genesis, development and impact of the FMI. The findings suggest that the FMI has contributed significantly to the institutionalization of resource management in general and cost awareness in particular. Implementation has been influenced, however, by the differentiation of departmental tasks and contexts, the inevitable tension between management and politics, and the difficulty of meeting the conditions for the successful engineering of cultural change.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00781.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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The Griffiths report of 1983 resulted in radical changes (to which the label ‘general management’ has been applied) to the formalities of organization and management in the national health service. We report the findings of a major study (involving more than 300 interviews) of the impact of these changes up to 1988. Although general management has been widely accepted in the service, and seems to have resulted in some improvements to management processes, there has been no substantial change in organizational culture. We conclude that the impact of the Griffiths model of management has been limited in comparison with the continued influence of medical autonomy and financial limitati

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00782.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Performance indicators (PIS) are central to the Thatcher Administration's strategy for reforming the management of government. This paper reports on research into the development and use of PIS in government departments, public agencies and private businesses in the 1980s. This comparative approach shows that the problems of performance assessment and the methods adopted for the design of PI systems, cut across the public/private divide but are related to the specific characteristics of organizations and their environment. The paper further analyses various dimensions of PI systems ‐ notably, the measurement of quality and consumer satisfaction ‐ and examines their implementation and evolution. The lifecycle of PIS suggests a possible prescriptive theory: the ‘mature’ PI model seems to be characterized by being designer‐built, parsimonious and timely. The drive towards the development of PI systems, it is concluded, is likely to intensify in the 1990s, in response to the Next Steps initiative and as instruments for the regulation of privatized m

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00783.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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This article examines the extent to which changing approaches to performance management have had an impact on a range of agencies responsible for local economic development programmes in Britain. It explores the possibility that the effectiveness of public programmes could be more sharply highlighted and incorporated in the performance review of organizations. It demonstrates that major improvements have occurred but that overall the planning and management of local economic development remains largely incremental. While the FMI (Financial Management Initiative) has led to greater understanding of the extent to which corporate and programme accountability can be achieved in public agencies, it is not clear that sufficient momentum has been achieved for future changes to be self‐generating. Further progress in performance management continues to be dependent on strong external pressures to publicize, probe and reward demonstrable improvements in public sector performanc

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00784.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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This article is based on a comparative study of three forms of evaluation used by government, the Audit Commission, consultants and the Social Services Inspectorate. The paper argues that these evaluative bodies strengthened the authority of government in the 1980s and supported the shift from a professional to a managerial culture in government. Their contribution to those changes can be linked to the kinds of knowledge they used and the positivist assumptions about knowledge that reasserted themselves in evaluation and in government in the 1980s. However, the research also provides further support for the critics of positivism. The distinction between fact and value and between technical expertise and political argument often broke down in evaluative practice.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00785.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this Article:THE NHS WER NEW MANAGEMENT Philip Strong and Jane Robinson.BRIDGING THE GAP: SECONDMENTS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS Rosemary Gosling and Sandra Nutley.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00786.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00787.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY