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New Managerialism in Higher Education

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New public management

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An ideological configuration of ideas and practices about the restructuring and reconfiguring of the processes of organizational management and regulation of employee behavior that can be found in public service organizations.

What Is New Managerialism?

Like many social science concepts, new managerialism has been extensively used by many academics, with varying definitions, in relation to the management regimes, rhetorics, and practices found in a number of different public services, from health to higher education (Ferlie et al. 1996; Deem 1998, 2004; Ferlie 2003), in a wide range of countries. This extends beyond the global north because versions of new managerialism have been imposed on public services in developing countries by bodies like the World Bank and the OECD. New managerialism has connections to and is sometimes used interchangeably with another concept, that of new public management (NPM). NPM certainly overlaps with new...

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    Rosemary Deem

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    Pedro Teixeira

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Deem, R. (2017). New Managerialism in Higher Education. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_308-1

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