New Public Management: The Story Continues. (November 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hyndman, Noel; Lapsley, Irvine
• Other Names: Hyndman Noel guestEditor.; Lapsley Irvine guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Financial accountability & management. Volume 32:Number 4(2016:Nov.)
• Page Start: 385
• Page End: 408
• Publication Date: 2016-11
• Subjects: NPM -- modernisation -- New Labour -- financial crisis -- coalition government; Finance, Public -- Accounting -- Periodicals; Accounting -- Periodicals; Managerial accounting -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Periodicals; 658.159
• DOI: 10.1111/faam.12100
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0267-4424

Abstract

Abstract: New Public Management (NPM) has aroused significant interest amongst academe, policy makers and practitioners, since its first articulation in the seminal articles by Hood (1991 and 1995). However, in the 21 st century, a body of opinion has developed which asserts that the NPM is passé . This paper seeks to determine the contemporary status of NPM in the context of the UK, one of the early adopters of NPM. Close inspection of UK Government policy underlines the importance of NPM ideas in the New Labour Government modernisation policy (1997‐2010). Furthermore, the policy actions of the 2010–2015 UK Coalition Government reveal that the global financial crisis intensified the drive for NPM in the UK's public sector. This discussion reveals no evidence in support of the demise of NPM.