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New Public Management and the Academic Profession: the Rationalisation of Academic Work Revisited

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The Changing Face of Academic Life

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Over the last decades we have witnessed several changes in public governance. The modes of coordination, the location of governance as well as the styles of governance throughout the Western world have undergone change (Van Kersbergen and Van Waarden 2004). Some of these changes, generally referred to as New Public Management (NPM), ‘consist of deliberate changes to the structures and processes of public sector organisations with the objective of getting them … to run better’ (Pollitt and Bouckaert 2000: 6–8). NPM is a means to multiple ends, including making savings in public expenditure, enhancing the quality of the (processes in delivering) public services, and making (the organisation of) service delivery more efficient and effective. It concerns a shift in the institutionalised arrangements of how decisions and policies are made, by whom, and for whom.

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  1. University of Twente, The Netherlands

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  2. University of Twente, The Netherlands

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Enders, J., de Boer, H., Leišytė, L. (2009). New Public Management and the Academic Profession: the Rationalisation of Academic Work Revisited. In: Enders, J., de Weert, E. (eds) The Changing Face of Academic Life. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230242166_3

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