Ideas and Reforms in Public Management and Administration

Carsten GreveProfessor of Public Management and Governance

Copenhagen Business School

Presentation in the session “Reform in Public Administration” for the European Public Administration Network (EUPAN): Innovative Public Services Group – the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European

Union 2012

27 February 2012

Please note

This presentation is accompanied by a written paper:

“Ideas in Public Management Reform for the 2010’s: Sharing Capacity for Change through Digitalization, Value Creation and Involvement”

written by Professor Carsten Greve in August 2011 and submitted to the journal Public Organization Review.

The elaborated discussion of the concepts, and the references can be found in the written paper.

Background

• Fatigue related to the New Public Management (NPM)

• Search for new ideas in current academic scholarship on public management and governance

• Financial crisis and a new age of uncertainty

Recent Ideas in Public Management Reform

DEG Digital Era Governance

Patrick Dunleavy

et.al.

PVM Public Value Management

Mark Moore John

Bennington

NPG New Public Governance

Stephen Osborne

Ideas in Public Management Reform

DEGTransparency

Social media

Shared service centres

PVMStrategies for creating public

value

Performance governance

Innovation

NPGCollaboration and

networks

Public-private partnerships

Public-making and citizen involvement

Overlap in Ideas in Public Management Reform

Digitalization

InvolvementValue creation

A Shared Capacity for Change?Public value creation for citizens

and companies is related to Digitalization that informs the new

agenda, and is facilitated and secured through continuing

Involvement of public and private actors in collaborative governance structures with networks and partnering and new citizen competences leading to:

Shared change processes and institutional capabilities for renewed action opportunities