This article reviews the New Public Management (NPM) literature in central and eastern
Europe (CEE) with the aim of assessing whether reforms have 'worked'. Increasingly …

In many cases the introduction of performance evaluation, performance management and
performance financing schemes do not produce the expected results and even create …

The global (or even systematic?) crisis that visibly started in 2009 in the form of the financial
crisis in the USA, creates new challenges for all national and supranational governments …

The article deals with the factors which influence efficiency of public procurement in the
competitive contracting conducted through e-auctions in 15 Slovak cities. Data cover …

Procurement and contract management are essential elements of twenty-first century
governance. Recent exigencies, such as COVID-19, severe weather events, and wicked …

This paper analyzes the role of public and private employment-service agencies in
contracting-out for employment case management under principal-agency relation to …

Analysis of 60,000 contracts awarded by English councils between 2015–19 reveals that
austerity constraints are a key predictor of councils outsourcing services to for-profit …

Jedním z negativních důsledků fungování centrálně plánované ekonomiky v
Československu v letech 1948–1989 byla i nedostatečná výše investic do dopravní …

This article applies a systematic literature-based approach to select, analyze, and categorize
publications appearing on public sector management (PSM) reforms in Eastern European …

This study examines the impact of English local government finance reform after the 2008
Financial Crisis. It uses advances in case-based methods, combined into Dynamic Pattern …