Scandinavian welfare states are undergoing a gradual transformation towards a more
market-based mode of public service delivery. The results of these marketization reforms …

This new in paperback edition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current
research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform. Aimed primarily at a student …

Research on the impact of the regional environment in the very early phase of the business
start-up process is currently limited. This paper contributes to the literature by analysing the …

Scholarly empirical studies on factors that motivate local privatisation have greatly grown in
the last decade. As well, having available better and more comprehensive databases and …

Public management research contains little analysis on procurement cancellations–ie when
contracts fail to make it through procurement, resulting in termination during the pre-award …

Governments face a fundamental choice between in‐house production and contracting out
for the delivery of services to citizens. This article examines the importance of ideology, fiscal …

Evidence regarding the drivers and the effects of remunicipalization remains in short supply.
In this paper we exploit existing analyses of earlier historical phases of the …

This article examines how administrative professionals affect the diffusion of one‐stop shops
in the form of integrated citizen service centres (CSC) in a Danish local government setting …

The public administration literature has been dominated by questions about how politicians
can control the bureaucracy's application and implementation of laws at the back end of the …

Given the intensive and ideologically charged debate over the use of private contractors for
publicly funded services, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred …