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The Resilience of New Public Management examines the role and significance of New Public Management (NPM) in contemporary society, and explores its emergence and resilience.
List of contents
- Part 1: MATURE NPM
- 1: Irvine Lapsley and Peter Miller: The Emergence and Resilience of NPM
- 2: Christopher Hood and Barbara Piotrowska: Mature NPM: Metrics, 'Gaming and What Limits It
- 3: Michael Power: Twenty-Five Years of the Audit Society: A Personal Reflection
- Part 2 : NPM IN ACTION
- 4: Leo McCann: Lean in Public Services: Promotion, Critique and 'Alternative Facts'
- 5: Ann Martin-Sardesai, James Guthrie, and Lee Parker: Four Decades of NPM and Australian universities : Elasticity of NPM practices
- 6: Henk ter Bogt: Forty years of NPM in Dutch local government: more accounting and efficiency, less democratic control?
- 7: Carmen Barbera and Ileana Steccolini: Tackling austerity: reconsidering the relevance of governmental capacities for resilience
- 8: Irvine Lapsley: Hard and Soft NPM
- Part 3 : ALTERNATIVE MODELS TO NPM
- 9: Mikael Hellstrom and Ulf Ramberg: NPM? No thanks -We want bureaucracy!
- 10: Deborah Agostino and Michela Arnaboldi: Co-Existence ? NPM in a Network World
- 11: Åge Johnsen: Trust-based management in the City of Oslo: Implementing a new managerial super-standard?
- 12: Hiroko Kudo: Co-Production-An ethnographic analysis of local services with renewed "traditional" methods?
- 13: Kirsty Strokosch and Stephen Osborne: Value creation and public service delivery
- Part 4: FINALE
- 14: Noel Hyndman, Mariannunziata Liguori: Accounting change in the UK Public Sector: was it all worth it?
- 15: Tom S. Karlsson: NPM (2.0) - A Blast from the Past
About the author
Professor Irvine Lapsley is Professor of Accounting Emeritus and Director of IPSAR at the University of Edinburgh Business School, Honorary Professor at Queen`s University Belfast, and visiting Professor NTNU at the School of Management Trondheim. He has lectured in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, and across Europe, and is a member of EIASM Faculty.
Professor Peter Miller is Professor of Management Accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Senior Research Associate of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation. Originally trained as a sociologist, he has been central to the development of sociological and historical analyses of accounting and related forms of quantification. He is a Consulting Editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society, a member of the Editorial Board of The British Accounting Review, and has published in a wide range of accounting, management, and sociology journals. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Copenhagen Business School and the University of Paris, Dauphine in 2014 and 2015 respectively, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018 for his contribution to humanities and social sciences.
Summary
The Resilience of New Public Management examines the role and significance of New Public Management (NPM) in contemporary society, and explores its emergence and resilience.
