scholarly journals Hybridity as a Result of the Marketization of Public Services: Catalyst or Obstruction for Sustainable Development? Deductions from a Study of Three Hybrid Waste Management Organizations in The Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Philip Marcel Karré
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
New Public

Increasingly, hybridity, i.e., the combination of contrasting and conflicting elements within organizations, is seen as a way to create innovation and synergy in dealing with complex societal questions, leading to more sustainable development. Much research on the subject deals with the phenomenon of social enterprise, but hybridity also takes place in other, more traditional organizational settings. For example, many governments have created hybrid organizations by embracing new public management (NPM) as a way to overcome the perceived shortcomings of traditional, hierarchical forms of public administration, such as inefficiency and the lack of an entrepreneurial spirit. Here, hybridity is often not so much seen as a way to increase sustainability but rather as a way to cut cost and to increase the quality of service provision. This article adds the sustainability dimension to this discussion through a deductive approach, reinterpreting the results from a study on the effects of the hybridity of three municipal waste management organizations in the Netherlands. The main conclusions are that hybridity leads to a more professional management style but also to more attention on output than on outcome. The article discusses what this means in terms of pursuing sustainability and sustainable development.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development Policy: A Participatory Approach to Increase Students’ Awareness of Solid Waste Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Zeinab Shawky Younis ◽  
Ola Mamdouh
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
New Public

Sustainability entails a development that meets the present generation’s needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Brundtland Commission, 1987). Hence, new public management practices need to be restored sustainably to fulfill the social contract theory by protecting citizens’ happiness, security, and development. Sustainable development goals (SDGs) in this direction mobilize many specialized fields, including public administration in its new form. New public management (NPM) practices are the art of maximizing value from natural resources and human capital. In designing organizations for such a citizen-enabled strategy within NPM in a sustainable perspective, policymakers must identify stakeholders, commitment of the initiators, and the innovation pattern in introducing this policy to the environment (Kairouz, 2016). This research paper introduces an attempt to set a sustainable development policy to maintain solid waste management (SWM) from administrative and a citizen-oriented reform policy orientation. In Egypt, SWM is a persistent issue reflecting on the environment; hence, social and health problems must be properly managed through developmental policies to contribute to the country’s welfare. The policy instrument of NPM in SDGs entails both municipal waste management and the rationalization of fossil fuel subsidies. The research conducted a pilot study of three months using sustainable supply chain management practices as a tool for managing solid wastes in universities where wastes are considered a product, which requires management throughout this chain to maximize efficiency and sustain the environment. The business model includes suppliers of the waste, including any firm that supplies the university with material for the ongoing study period. It also includes any individual bringing goods of usage in the campus that turn into waste. The referential analysis technique is used to draw a generalization of conclusions depending on the logic found in areas of secondary sources in early studies.

New Public Management Reforms and Modernization Changes in Australia

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Tarek Rana
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Accountability Systems ◽  
New Public ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Ideas

This chapter explores and explains recent modernisation changes in the Australian Public Sector and provides insights on implications of new public management style reform for public sector accounting, auditing and accountability systems and practices. By adopting a narrative analysis approach, this chapter reconnoitres the change by dissecting the public-sector governance, performance and accountability reform and identifies significant modernisation changes in public sector management which has switched focus from a “rules-based” to “principles-based” accountability framework. Moreover, this chapter highlights the changes, challenges and opportunities that arises with the implementation of the new framework which can be seen as an innovative determination of modernisation. The modernisation change in Australia has produced new ideas of good governance and requirements for meaningful accountability systems and practices by mobilising various accountability mechanisms such as accountable authority, corporate plan, program evaluation, performance measurement, and risk management.

scholarly journals Judicial Self Government in the Netherlands: Demarcating Autonomy

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 1801-1838
Author(s):  
Elaine Mak
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
New Public ◽  
Practical Experiences

AbstractBased on which values and to what extent does a specific legal system endorse a model of self-government of the judiciary? How is such self-government shaped? Which lessons can be drawn from practical experiences relating to major organizational reforms? This article addresses these questions with the aim of analyzing the influence of reforms of judicial self-government in the Netherlands on the realization of the core values of independence, accountability, legitimacy, transparency of, and public confidence in the judiciary. Furthermore, this article assesses the influence of reforms of judicial self-government on the separation of powers and democracy as organizing principles for the Dutch legal system. The main focus of the article is on the interaction between rule-of-law values and New Public Management (NPM) values for judicial organization, taking into account the meaning and weight of these values over time in the evolving Dutch legal system. Furthermore, the analysis addresses both the legal framework for judicial government and tensions that have occurred between key actors, in particular judges and the Council for the Judiciary, in their experiences with this legal framework in practice. A red thread which runs through this analysis concerns the demarcation of spheres of autonomy for the different actors in the judicial system. The analysis of organizational reforms clarifies that a dynamic interaction has developed between judges, the bodies for judicial self-government in the Dutch system and the Minister of Justice and Security, revolving around claims of autonomy. The evolved framework of rule-of-law and NPM values for the judicial organization provides a theoretical “lens” for understanding this interaction and its outcomes.

scholarly journals Analyzing the potentiality of the government budget in the framework of public accountability

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pina Puntillo
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Social Accountability ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Government Budget ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Substantial Control

The main aim of this paper is to analyze how the yearly budget of public entities may be used as a tool of social accountability. The interest in researching this topic roots in a change in management style, from a bureaucratic kind, based on the formulation of rules and limitations, and on the more formal than substantial control of the civil servants’ compliance with the former, to a “post-bureaucratic” kind of management (Maroy, 2005), essentially founded on the evaluation of how efficiently resources are exploited. In this context, the term “accountability” refers to the set of techniques which may be used to measure and evaluate the results delivered by the administrative bodies, as well as the impacts on the community (Patton, 1992). The process of accountability confers to the subjects in question the legitimization of their own behaviour. After exploring the concept of social accountability, the paper will focus on the aspects of the public budget which make it a suitable tool of social accountability, showing how the shift from the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm to the Public Governance paradigm has strengthened and more clearly defined said role.

scholarly journals Conceptualization Good Amil Governance In Zakat Institution

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-135
Author(s):  
Fitri Laela Wijayati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Organizational Governance ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
New Public

This study aims to analyze the implementation of good amil governance in the largest zakat organization in Indonesia to provide an overview of the extent of the implementation of good amil governance. OPZ performance is not only measured by the effectiveness of zakat distribution but also seen from professionalism in organizational management which is reflected in the creation of good organizational governance Professional management is an effort to create new public management and increase public trust in OPZ. Public trust in OPZ is very important because it relates to trust in the management and distribution of zakat in a professional manner which in turn can increase the potential for zakat acceptance so that it can be used to improve social welfare. This research is a qualitative study by analyzing the contents of the financial statements and websites of zakat organizations. The implementation of Good Governance (GG) is an important issue in order to improve the performance of OPZ which can be seen from the aspects of management, public services and public trust (muzakki) in the organization The implementation of GG in public organizations is inseparable from the principles of transparency, accountability, responsibility, independence, and openness / honesty which are in line with the norms and ethics principles in Islamic Sharia. The results show that most zakat organizations have implemented good amil governance, but there are some components that have not been disclosed in the financial statements or websites.

Explaining change in the Mexican public sector: the limits of New Public Management

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo M. Cejudo
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Economic Liberalization ◽  
Management Style ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Mexican Government

The Mexican public sector has undergone significant transformations in recent decades. This article argues against the view that these changes are the result of New Public Management-style reforms. Even though the Mexican government has applied some of the tools associated with this paradigm, the essential NPM doctrines — granting more autonomy to public agencies and government officials, and using market mechanisms to promote competition in the public sector — have been absent from the agenda. The Mexican experience exposes two erroneous assumptions in the international debate about NPM: that there is a global trend of similar national reforms and that every change in the public sector is part of this new paradigm. Instead, the changes in the Mexican public sector are the result of incremental adjustments to two broader domestic processes: economic liberalization and political democratization — which have led to a smaller and relatively more accountable administration. Points for practitioners This article suggests that not all reforms are the result of New Public Management initiatives. It points towards alternative explanations for change in the Mexican public sector and identifies political democratization and economic liberalization as the main sources of change. This view challenges existing accounts of public sector change in developing countries and suggests a more complex process of reform. The main lesson for practitioners is that, when analysing reform experiences, they should look at the underlying causal processes rather than at the official rhetoric. Moreover, the article reminds practitioners that NPM is only one among several sources of doctrines for changing the public administration.

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