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Unintended Consequences of NPM Drive the “Bureaucracy”

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This article examines the unintended consequences following implementation of a new public management (NPM) reform—a performance-based salary system—in two Swedish public schools. Headmasters and central office personnel were interviewed. The expected reform results at last appeared a decade after implementation when salary-setting procedures adopted the bureaucratic framework. Despite the common view that NPM reforms, owing to unintended consequences, fail because they adapt poorly to the Weberian control regime at public organizations, this article argues that the unintended consequences of an NPM reform can drive the “bureaucratic” organization even when there is no evidence of debureaucratization.

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  • Roy Liff, 2014. "Unintended Consequences of NPM Drive the “Bureaucracy”," International Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(8), pages 474-483, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lpadxx:v:37:y:2014:i:8:p:474-483
    DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2013.865644
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