Questioning the New Public Management

This book looks at New Public Management (NPM) in a variety of public sector contexts and organizational sites. It provides a range of empirical case studies of NPM in practice and at the same time explores the consequences of it. It takes an inter-disciplinary approach while clearly illustrating a range of theoretical and empirical approaches.

Catrina Alferoff is presently employed as senior research assistant in the Department of Management at Keele University Jim Barry is a political sociologist and Reader at the University of East London Elisabeth Berg is a Docent in sociology at Lulea University of Technology in Sweden with an appointment as Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London Sharon C. Bolton is a lecturer in Human Resource Management in the Department of Behaviour in Organisations, The Management School, Lancaster University Geraldine Catlow is a Research Associate at the University of Leicester Management Centre John Chandler is a Principal Lecturer and sociologist teaching Organisational Studies in the East London Business School at the University of East London Tony Cutler was, prior to joining the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, Reader in Sociology, School of Social Science, Middlesex University Mike Dent is Professor of Health Care Organisation at the School of Health, Staffordshire University Paul Michael Garrett is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Nottingham Charles Harvey is Professor of Business History and Management at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK Jeanette Henderson is a lecturer with the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University in the UK Chris Howorth is a lecturer in Organisational Strategy in the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London David Seth Jones is an Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Administration, University of Brunei Linda Keen is currently Master of Keynes College, and lecturer in HRM and Public Sector Management at the University of Kent at Canterbury Alison Linstead is Lecturer in Management and Organisation Theory in the Work, Organisation and Management group at Durham Business School Beverly Metcalf is Lecturer in Human Resource Development at the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester Frank Mueller holds the Chair in Organisation Theory and International Strategy located in the Management Centre at the University of Leicester Sally Ruane lectures in health policy at De Montfort University, Leicester Janet Seden is a Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Welfare at The Open University