Revisiting New Public Management and its Effects : Experiences from a Norwegian Context / Abbas Strømmen-Bakhtiar, Konstantin Timoshenko

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strømmen-Bakhtiar, Abbas, Editor.

Timoshenko, Konstantin, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

NPM.

New Public Management.

Public health.

community.

city.

education.

public administration.

policy.

economy.

technology.

Local Subjects:

NPM.

New Public Management.

Public health.

community.

city.

education.

public administration.

policy.

economy.

technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st, New ed.

Place of Publication:

Münster Waxmann 2021

Biography/History:

With degrees in Aerospace Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Management, Abbas Strømmen-Bakhtiar is a polymath with a multi-discipline view of the subject matter. He is currently Professor at the Nord University Business School in Norway and his areas of interest include, but are not limited to, digital transformation, sharing economy, technology and (political) economy.

Konstantin Timoshenko earned his Ph.D. entitled "Russian Government Accounting: Changes at the Central Level and at a University" in Business Administration at Nord University Business School. He currently is Associate Professor at the Department of Business, Marketing and Law at the School of Business at the University of South-Eastern Norway. His principal scholarly interests have developed at the interface between public sector accounting and public administration and he teaches courses in financial and managerial accounting.

Summary:

Although, over time, numerous articles and books have been published on New Public Management (NPM), it is still being investigated with a sense of great urgency, as its effects, whether positive or negative, have not yet been fully gauged and comprehended. Given the rather controversial nature of the phenomenon of interest, the purpose of this edited volume is to re-invigorate and revisit the ongoing debate on NPM by providing a fresh perspective and novel insights into how NPM-driven changes have been approached and, more importantly, the effects they have produced in the context of Norway. The current volume comprises seven contributions penned by scholars and experts from all over Norway with a keen interest in NPM. Five of them are geared towards assessing the effects of NPM-style reforms on the Norwegian public healthcare sector in general and nursing in particular, one deals with the impacts of NPM on Norwegian primary and lower secondary education, and one traces the relationship between NPM and the most influential management accounting innovations of the last few decades. It is our profound hope that the book will trigger fruitful discussions and broaden our understanding of NPM and its effects by providing lessons from the empirical evidence presented in the different chapters. Captivating and instructive, it will be of great interest for all readers keeping an eye on NPM, including but not limited to students and scholars of public administration, practitioners and policymakers.

Contents:

Introduction: A Farewell to New Public Management? Abbas Strømmen-Bakhtiar & Konstantin Timoshenko 1 Re-establishing Trust – Cases from a Norwegian Health Enterprise Astrid Marie Holand 2 New Public Management and Public Value: A Good Match? A Case of One Maternity Ward in Norway Antonina Tsvetkova 3 New Public Management and Healthcare in the Future – Is Welfare Technology the Cure for the Care Crisis? Stine Hauvik 4 Nursing in the New Public Management Era: Gaming the System Maria Strandås 5 Post-bureaucratic Structures: Facilitating or Inhibiting Learning in Public Organizations? Grete Hagebakken, Elin Anita Nilsen, Trude Høgvold Olsen & Elsa Solstad 6 From Knowledge Promotion Reform to Value Promotion Reform – Norwegian School Leaders and Teachers as Mediators for Democracy in a Time of Contradictions Hege Myhre 7 Diffusion and Evolution of Management Accounting Innovations in the Public Sector – A Comparative Case Study Terje Berg, Dag Øivind Madsen & Tonny Stenheim List of Contributors

ISBN:

3-8309-9338-2

Publisher Number:

9783830993384