Outsourcing of services has been receiving increasing attention in management literature
and praxis. It is considered that greatest attention has been given to the enhanced efficiency …

The economic rationale for government intervention in a market economy has traditionally
been provided by the theory of market failure. This article reviews the market failure …

At first, the concierge was intending to write a genealogy of the economic subject. But he has
a fancy for anachronism. That is why he has become a concierge. Or did the anachronism …

New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from
the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely …

How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question
that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration …

Organizations are socially constructed phenomena. A crucial task for organizational
research is to analyze how and why people construct organizations rather than other social …

Tom Christensen Professor, Institutt for statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo tom.
christensen@ stv. uio. no tor? Eller er det som om at disse bølger lever i sameksistens …

A process of organisational change has accompanied managerial reforms in the public
sector and is oriented towards the development of a post‐bureaucratic organisational …

Until very recently questions of resistance seemed straightforward, addressed in terms of an
analysis of power. This book demonstrates how new, radical geographies of resistance …

Since the late 1970s, a truly remarkable revolution has swept public management around
the world. Understanding this revolution means sorting through three issues: the basic ideas …