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The polyphonic effects of technological changes in public sector organizations

In: The Illusion of Management Control

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  • Niels Thygesen
  • Niels Åkerstrøm Andersenˡ

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New Public Management (NPM) has established itself as the paradigm to watch when it comes to understanding changes in the public sector. It is generally agreed that the normative purpose of NPM is to improve the market orientation, public choice, competition and cost efficiency of public administration. In order to achieve this purpose, NPM normally emphasizes new steering technologies, largely adapted from the private sector and guided by the tautological maxim that ‘managers must manage’. What is called New Public Management, then, is the meeting of a particular set of normative ends with a specific set of technical means handled by managers who know how to manage. This causal set-up has undoubtedly contributed to the general acceptance of both means and ends, since overcoming the obstacles can now be conceived of as a relatively straightforward matter of implementing technologies.

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  • Niels Thygesen & Niels Åkerstrøm Andersenˡ, 2012. "The polyphonic effects of technological changes in public sector organizations," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Niels Thygesen (ed.), The Illusion of Management Control, chapter 6, pages 159-181, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36539-1_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230365391_7
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