scholarly journals Public management – the essence and selected concepts

2021 ◽  
Vol 199 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-163
Author(s):  
Monika Wakuła
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Public Sector Management ◽  
New Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Definition Of

The paper is an attempt to characterise the most significant concepts of public management. The starting point for the considerations is definition of the term “public management”. Next, the author presents directions of the evolution of changes that have been taking place in public sector management. The last part of the paper outlines the assumptions of two modern concepts of public management, i.e., New Public Management and Public Governance.

Co-Production as Seen From a Top Management Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Mette Vinther Larsen ◽  
Charlotte Øland Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
New Public ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Public Organisations

This chapter addresses the ‘co-production turn' in public sector organisations from a top management perspective. The co-production turn is seen as a historical development from new public management to the concept of new public governance. Ideas on collaborative governance have been advanced as an answer to some of the challenges of the public sector in health services, caregiving, and social work. Current issues in welfare production in public sector organisations are seen as a result of the economic rationalisation ideas in new public management, and co-production has been theoretically advanced as a new way to involve citizens in the co-production of welfare. The co-production turn is explored as an emerging research field in this book, and in the current chapter, the authors explore how three top managers make sense of this concept when developing and implementing new strategies in their public organisations.

scholarly journals Theoretical Reflections on Public Governance and Tourist Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Fausi Kalaoum ◽  
◽  
Luiz Gonzaga Godoi Trigo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
New Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tourism Governance

The changes due to the social and political aspect around the world, which began around the 70's, contributed to rethink a new model [or models] of public management. This structural change in the Brazilian State, which some authors define as Governance, is the starting point for this work. Thus, the objective of this work is to stimulate and contribute to a theoretical construction of Governance and its application to the touristic governance. With a qualitative approach, the bibliographic research was used as a technique in engendering this work, focusing on the readings on Public Governance, New Public Management and Tourism Governance. Among the results achieved are the identification of divergences or lack of precision of the concept of governance and the identification of common elements in the literature that may help a better understanding of this construct.

scholarly journals From New Public Management to Public Sector Management Reforms during the pandemic. The effects of Covid-19 on public management reforms and effectiveness

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 576-596
Author(s):  
Panagiota Xanthopoulou ◽  
Iosif Plimakis
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
New Public ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

The current paper presents some aspects and criticisms from the theoretical literature concerning the New Public Management (NPM). The article also critically examines whether the NPM model is appropriate and the drivers that affected its efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector especially in Greece, during the current pandemic. The research concluded that the process of managerial reform and the specific criteria in order to evaluate NPM’s effectiveness are not completed yet and that there are some key barriers such as the statist perception of citizens and politicians, the corruption of public, the fragmented organizational structures, the resistance to change that hinder the success of change and of NPM’s effective implementation in public sector. However, Covid-19 was a situation that helped many aspects of NPM such as digitalization, digital transformation, e-governance etc. to effectively be introduced and implemented in public governance of Greek organisations.

Changing market values? Tensions of contradicting public management discourses

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 659-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mie Plotnikof
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Market Values ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
New Public

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address studies of New Public Governance (NPG) as a post-New Public Management (NPM) tendency. Although NPG is considered a contrast to NPM and its market incentives, it argues that the practices emerging in tensions of NPM and NPG discourses indicate not a clear-cut shift away from NPM, but rather changes that combine competition with collaboration and trust. Design/methodology/approach It offers a discourse approach to advance the theorizing and empirical unfolding of the tensions of contradicting, yet co-existing discourses of NPM and NPG and their effects in practice. Drawing on a case study from the Danish daycare sector, it investigates local collaborative governance initiatives that develop new quality-management methods. Findings The study elucidates how NPM and NPG discourses collide in local practices of public sector management within daycare. It shows that the discursive tensions between such value-laden practices indicate a changing marketization associated with collaboration and trust, yet also competition. Research limitations/implications To research it becomes critical to advance theoretical and empirical knowledge on the constitutive effects of such complex discursive tensions in public organizations. Practical implications To practice it becomes necessary to acknowledge and handle co-existing, yet contradicting management discourses, and not mistake their opposing values as necessarily distinct, but rather as entangled in practice. Originality/value The paper contributes with original findings that shed new light on colliding management discourses in practices and their effects within the public sector area of daycare.

scholarly journals “Squandered in Real Time”: How Public Management Theory Underestimated the Public Administration–Politics Dichotomy

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 480-488
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Young ◽  
Kimberly K. Wiley ◽  
Elizabeth A. M. Searing
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
New Public Governance ◽  
Definition Of

The United States places great emphasis on the public administration–politics dichotomy, but what happens to public management when the dichotomy breaks down? The authors critically evaluate the public management frameworks, New Public Management and New Public Governance, in the context of two major public management failures: the U.S. State of Illinois Budget Impasse during 2015–2017 and the COVID-19 Pandemic. A definition of public management failure is proffered, and both public management frameworks are found to have polarized and opposing views on whether process or outcome should have priority in crisis. We question whether the two major seminal theories in our field are still generalizable when their assumptions about the dichotomy and political neutrality are challenged in times of crises. The polarized perspectives were found to contribute to the public management failures. Ultimately, both frameworks were found to minimize the political influences that public administration and public management operate under, leaving a need for a more holistic and realistic framework.

scholarly journals Transition Countries And New Public Management: The Case Of Slovenia

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanka Setnikar-Cankar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
New Public ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
External Reasons

Globalisation impacts on a country and its administration with a series of economical, technological, cultural and ecological processes. The modern state is seen as a modest state. The state must provide the necessary direction without hindering other activities in society. The shift from public administration to new public management involves a shift in the basic design co-ordinates of public sector organisation. Changes in the operating of public administration require new management policies. Abolishing administrative obstacles confronted by enterprises will reduce their operating costs. An efficient and well-organised public sector is in the interest of the economy. Reorganisation of state administration operations involves setting two important goals in the strategy of reform: greater productivity and better quality of service. Operating indicators are necessary for internal and external reasons for assessing the past and planning the future. New rules on public sector operations require a preliminary definition of operational standards, which determine the extent, quality and accessibility of services, measure results and establish mechanisms impacting on both the users and payers of services.

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