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Elin Funck. Photo.

Elin Funck

Senior lecturer

Elin Funck. Photo.

Governance innovations as social imaginaries: challenges of post-NPM

Author

  • Elin Funck
  • Tom Karlsson

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Accounting and Corporate Finance

Publishing year

2023-11-23

Language

English

Publication/Series

Public Management Review

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • NPM
  • post-NPM
  • magic concepts
  • social imaginaries
  • governance innovation

Status

Epub

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1471-9045