scholarly journals Management discourse in university administrative documents in Sweden

Pragmatics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Ledin ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Technical Management ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The University

Studies in CDA have revealed the nature of the marketized language that now infuses universities and other public institutions, but there is no comprehensive study as to how this language enters the everyday practices of the university through different levels of steering documents and meetings. In this paper, taking one example from a corpus of data from a larger project on New Public Management in Sweden, we show how successively more detailed documents are created by professional administrators in order to present vision statements, that are first operationalized into strategies and then into more concrete ‘activities’ for the subject level that are related to bundles of performance indicators. These documents re-contextualize practices of teaching and research in line with marketized goals, yet do so through consistent lack of clear agency, causality and process. A number of linguistic and multimodal resources are deployed in a chain of interrelated documents legitimizing this process as one made by careful, technical, management expertise, although the result is a fragmentation of the actual interconnected processes that comprise university work.

scholarly journals Bringing the Law Back in the Law-Government Nexus in an Era of Network Governance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stavros Zouridis ◽  
Vera Leijtens
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Law

Abstract Recently, scholars have claimed that public management theory has too much ignored law. Consequently, the under-legalized conception of public management has produced a flawed understanding of public management theory as well as public management practices, threatening public institutions’ legitimacy. In this article, we argue that law never left public management theory. Rather, the link between government and law has been redefined twice. We refer to the assumptions that constitute this link as the law-government nexus. This nexus changed from lawfulness in a public administration paradigm, to legal instrumentalism in a (new) public management paradigm, and to a networked concept in the public governance (PG) paradigm. In order to prevent a faulty over-legalized conception of public management, bringing the law back in should be built on lessons from the past. This article elaborates on three strategies to reconnect law and public management. We map the strengths and weaknesses of each law-government nexus and illustrate these with the case of the Dutch tax agency. In our strategies that aim to reconceptualize the current law-government nexus, we incorporate the benefits of each paradigm for public management theory. The revised law-governance nexus enables the PG paradigm to correspond to contemporary issues without encountering old pathologies.

THE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SYSTEM IN POLAND IN THE LIGHT OF THE NEW CONCEPT OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-198
Author(s):  
Leszek Zelek
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Welfare Model

The aim of the article is to present the social assistance model in Poland in the light of new concepts of public management in this area. As a result of the review of the available literature on the subject, the genesis, evolution and directions of development of social assistance in Poland are shown. New directions of management in the context of social policy were discussed. The description of the social welfare model presented in the article is systematising knowledge in the scope of the discussed problem and by comparing new management concepts, assessing the possibilities of their implementation on the ground of social assistance. The first part of the article describes the genesis and evolution of social welfare in Poland and discusses its structure. In the second part, through comparative analysis, an attempt was made to characterize new management concepts, New Public Management and governance, in the light of the social welfare model in Poland

scholarly journals La Nueva Gestión Pública en Sabaneta-Antioquia (2003-2013) / The New Public Management in Sabaneta, Antioquia 2003-2013

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-52
Author(s):  
Ángel Emilio Muñoz Cardona
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
International Events

ABSTRACTDuring the decades of the 80s and 90s three international events that marked the history political, social and economic at the beginning of XXI century took place: the fall of the Berlin Wall and Perestroika; Environmental Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the European Union. These historical events deepened new forms of public administration within the developed and developing countries. International events that were and are answer to the demands of citizens by governments more responsive in the management of their needs of participation are: political decisions, environmental protection and economic security. But, how did these three events alter the economic, political and social order in Colombia, and how have these new trends in public management been incorporated into the municipality of Sabaneta, Antioquia? Visualizing the changes of governance since the late 80s and 90s in Colombia, illustrative of the good performance achieved by the municipality of Sabaneta in the period from 2003 to 2013, is the subject of this research essayRESUMENDurante las décadas de los años 80s y 90s tuvieron lugar tres acontecimientos internacionales que marcarían la historia política, social y económica de principios de siglo XXI: la Caída del Muro de Berlín y la Perestroika; la Cumbre Ambiental en Rio de Janeiro y la Unión Europea. Acontecimientos históricos que profundizaron nuevas formas de administración pública en el seno de las naciones desarrolladas y en vías de desarrollo. Sucesos internacionales que fueron y son respuesta a las demandas de ciudadanos por gobiernos más responsables con la gestión de sus necesidades de participación en: decisiones políticas, preservación del medio ambiente y seguridad económica. Pero, ¿de qué manera estos tres acontecimientos alteraron el orden económico, político y social en Colombia, y cómo esas nuevas tendencias de gestión pública han sido incorporadas en el municipio de Sabaneta-Antioquia? Visibilizar dichos cambios de gobernanza desde finales de los años 80s y 90s en Colombia capaces de explicar el buen desempeño alcanzado por el municipio de Sabaneta durante el periodo 2003-2013, es el objeto del presente ensayo de investigación.

Reforming the judiciary through standards: agency empowerment and centre (re)building in Italy, 2001–2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 757-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Piana
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Public Prosecutor ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
New Public

The Italian judiciary has been under the spotlight for more than two decades. The key criticism addressed to it has been the lack of organizational capacity, which is reflected in the trial time frame. After 2000, European institutions launched a new and comprehensive policy stream, targeting the administrative and organizational capacities of courts and public prosecutor offices. The pivotal policy instrument is represented by standards and soft law in general. By referring to four case studies, analysed in depth on the basis of a qualitative approach, this work engages in a critical appraisal of the New Public Management-inspired judicial policies and the way in which they have been implemented in the judicial sector in Italy. Points for practitioners This article makes a point about the structural and institutional conditions that turn out as pivotal factors to ensure an effective and efficient governance by standards. In other terms, the argument deployed herein concerns the function of a regulative agency, which might have the shape and the format of a ministerial unit, where the uniformity and the equality of the services delivered by a public institution or a network of public institutions are the outcome of the implementation of legally binding and non-legally binding norms. This is a key point, then, for public officers serving not only in the judicial sector.

scholarly journals Consolidation of new public management in nursing education: repercussions to the Unified Health System

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Renato Gatto Júnior ◽  
Cinira Magali Fortuna ◽  
Sébastien Pesce ◽  
Leandra Andréia de Sousa ◽  
Angelina Lettiere-Viana
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Health System ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
New Public ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the ways in which neoliberalism has consolidated itself in the public university and in university teaching in nursing; and what interferences it has produced in the pedagogical conceptions and practices of nurse educators. Methods: this is a qualitative research based on Institutional Analysis and conducted in a public university. Results: the data produced with the nursing teachers revealed the consolidation of the New Public Management in the university teaching of the professor-nurse, which is in contradiction with the formative assumptions for the Unified Health System. Final Considerations: it is noticeable how the university and the university teaching in nursing are already impregnated by neoliberal logic. This will possibly have repercussions on the training of professionals for the Unified Health System.

scholarly journals The Post-entrepreneurial University: The Case for Resilience in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-193
Author(s):  
Mitchell Young ◽  
Rómulo Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
Loose Coupling ◽  
Resilience Thinking ◽  
New Public ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
The University ◽  
Institutional Foundations

AbstractHistorically speaking, the university has been a highly resilient organizational form; however recent pressures to become entrepreneurial threaten the institutional foundations on which that reliance is based. The chapter first provides conceptual clarity by revisiting what we argue are two distinct schools of thought on the entrepreneurial university. We show how the economic school’s conception intertwines with the rise of New Public Management (NPM) in Europe in the late 1990s and early 2000s, reframing the concept in ways that made it incompatible with resilience thinking. However, we argue that by tying back into ‘lost’ elements of sociological school’s conception, and associating them with concepts from complex systems literature (loose coupling, slack, and requisite diversity), a hybrid model which is both resilient and entrepreneurial can be achieved. We call this the post-entrepreneurial university.

New public management and libraries: a success story or just an excuse for cost reduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (8/9) ◽  
pp. 477-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Düren ◽  
Ane Landøy ◽  
Jarmo Saarti
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Public ◽  
Digital Library Services ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

Purpose From the 1980s – in some parts of Europe from the 1990s – onward, the new public management (NPM) has been emerging in public organizations including libraries. Since then, there has been a need to develop strategies, to plan budgets and to implement cost and activity accounting as well as benchmarking to compare the library’s processes, costs and activities with those of other libraries. One basic idea of the NPM was to make a transition from focusing on how institutions function to product orientation, to improve the quality of library services, to develop output orientation and to act market and consumer oriented. There also was a need to change from bureaucratic and hierarchically acting organizations to a more modern flexible and lean form of management. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The aim of this paper is in the first part to describe the basic ideas of NPM, their realization in libraries and how libraries have to handle constantly reduced budgets and the risk of being closed down (especially in the “age of austerity”); the second part will show how the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Library has managed to improve its services with the NPM approach. Findings Many libraries are faced with serious financial cutbacks on the one hand and with emergent needs to (re)invest in neglected public infrastructure on the other hand. At the same time, they have to develop modern digital library services. Thus there is a need for efficiency, which is put in action via major budget cutbacks. Also many libraries have been closed down since the implementation of NPM ideas. Originality/value In this paper, the NPM tools used in the restructuring of the UEF are described and the outcome of this modern management is shown.

scholarly journals The politics of thinking and the idea of the university as a heterotopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bregham Dalgliesh
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Informational Capitalism ◽  
New Public ◽  
The University ◽  
Idea Of The University

Drawing on struggles between academe as a place that historically harbours critique and new public management that fosters instrumental knowledge, I reimagine the university as a counter-space for thinking. Initially, I deploy the work of Scott Lash to show how informational capitalism suffocates critique. Notwithstanding, his solution of <i>Informationskritik</i> resigns itself to the monism of technoculture. I therefore turn to Jacques Derrida’s idea of the university in relation to informationalisation. To ensure its autonomy, the university is supplementary to society, yet associated by its reflexivity that is on behalf of society. Finally, I invoke Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, which tracks the tendency of society to instil homotopic spaces of sameness. Such a blueprint of the university as a heterotopia acts as a barometer of the critical credentials of reason that is manifest in social practices. In parallel, it carries forward Derrida’s idea for it and resuscitates a space for critical thinking.

scholarly journals Could Slow Be Beautiful? Academic Counter-Spacing Within and Beyond “The Slow Swimming Club”

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
New Public ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This article proposes a specific form of academic counter-spacing, based on an autoethnographic account of an initiative called the “Slow Swimming Club.” The justification for this initiative is to contest what is contextualized as the pervasive fast pace of universities, driven by contemporary marketization, new public management, and neoliberalism. The proposed counter-spacing is analyzed here through a conceptual lens, inspired by recent research from the environmental psychology discipline around Attention Restorative Theory (ART), along with its central four principles. By using such a conceptual frame, it allows a way of exploring the impact beyond the personal day-to-day micro-restorative counter-spacing opportunities, such as the Slow Swimming Club (which take place outside the university space), toward counter-spacing back on campus. It thereby endeavors to explore how such counter-spacing not only reflects and disconnects through a restorative coping mechanism, but also collectively resists and challenges the fast agendas on campus.

scholarly journals A Bibliometrics Approach to Understanding Conceptual Breadth, Depth and Development: The Case of New Public Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dion Curry ◽  
Steven Van de Walle
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Research ◽  
Over Time

This article uses bibliometric analysis to track the breadth and depth of the concept of New Public Management as it has developed in the 25 years since the coining of the term, in order to provide a deeper understanding of how academics have engaged with the subject. The article uses bibliometric and qualitative analysis to map the use of the concept as a whole and over time, and the use of bibliometrics provides an original, methodical and quantitative way of analysing the usage and movement of New Public Management as a concept. It looks at the breadth of the literature in terms of whether it has spread to new journals or academic disciplines and depth in terms of whether articles on New Public Management engage with new research on the subject. It is shown that the breadth of the literature has increased, but there has been no significant deepening. By providing an overarching view of New Public Management as a concept, this article allows for more systematic academic engagement with the concept, leading to a deeper research agenda that goes beyond its current somewhat limited usage.

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