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| Resource type: Journal Article Published DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1096-7494(01)00041-1 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 1096-7494 BibTeX citation key: anon2001 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: New Public Management Creators: Gruening Collection: International Public Management Journal |
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The article describes the characteristics of New Public Management (NPM) and gives a cursory overview of the development of the behavioral-administrative sciences and their relation to NPM. A descriptive model of the behavioral-administrative sciences is developed that pits three internally consistent scientific worldviews that are incommensurable to each other. From this, the theoretical origins of NPM can be traced to a variety of theoretical perspectives. Although the special mix of characteristics of NPM is new, it does not represent a paradigm change. Indeed, it is improbable that there will ever be one paradigm for the behavioral-administrative sciences; and without an accepted paradigm, a paradigm change is not really possible.
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