Governance innovations as social imaginaries: challenges of post-NPM
(2023) In Public Management Review- Abstract
- The effects of NPM have been criticized for decades and we are now seeing how alternative, post-NPM, governance innovations emerge. What joins these innovations is the critique against NPM and the ambition to provide new ways of governing public organizations. From a critical stance, we engage in a discussion of governance innovations from the perspective of social imaginaries and analyse post-NPM from dystopian and utopian viewpoints. We argue that the main legitimacy for post-NPM lies in it demonizing NPM, whereas a more fruitful way forward would entail incorporating elements of NPM to create a holistic governance model for the future.
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- author
- Funck, Elin LU and Karlsson, Tom
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-11-23
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- NPM, post-NPM, magic concepts, social imaginaries, governance innovation
- in
- Public Management Review
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85177472855
- ISSN
- 1471-9045
- DOI
- 10.1080/14719037.2023.2281981
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 44d641c5-dfe2-46f2-a16f-f17b8639417a
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- 2023-12-18 13:23:04
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