The Whitlam Government and the Insurance Industry: The Polities of Policy Strategy
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 396-415
ISSN: 1467-8497
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In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 396-415
ISSN: 1467-8497
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 396
ISSN: 0004-9522
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 252-254
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
In: Australian journal of public administration, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 166-178
ISSN: 1467-8500
Corporate Management is in trouble. In the early 1980s when this approach first began to dominate thinking about reform, it was claimed that a new and comprehensive decision‐making framework based on total‐system efficiency would be put in place. A new age of leaner organisations, clearer objectives and greater accountability was promised. However the practical achievements of the framework which made these promises have so far been small, the costs high, and the means employed controversial. As a consequence the Corporate Management approach is currently suffering a crisis of confidence.
In: International review of administrative sciences: an international journal of comparative public administration, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 171-184
ISSN: 1461-7226
In: International review of administrative sciences: an international journal of comparative public administration, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 171
ISSN: 0020-8523
In: Australian journal of public administration, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 277-280
ISSN: 1467-8500
In: Australian journal of public administration, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 4-18
ISSN: 1467-8500
Abstract: A corporate management framework has been the basis for a transformation of Australian public administration in recent years. Program budgeting, corporate planning, performance contracts, program evaluation and new forms of efficiency scrutiny are among the techniques introduced. They stem from a dominant paradigm of technical and instrumental rationality, within which a framework of practical remedies and technologies of power carries the corporate management label. Four concepts underly this framework and its techniques: the product format, instrumentalism, integration and purposive action. The framework has fundamental problems. The product format is inappropriate for many public services and overvalues quantifiable, single‐purpose outputs while denigrating claims of worth and effectiveness made on non‐economic grounds; instrumentalism ignores the political dimensions of public organisations; integration denies the value of decentralised forms of service development and delivery and, paradoxically, contradicts current private management precepts; and purposive action displays an unwarranted optimism about the potency of technical rationality under central direction. The four principles must be reviewed as offering few prospects for genuine and lasting reform.
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 51-69
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
In: Australian social work: journal of the AASW, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 17-25
ISSN: 1447-0748
In: Politics: Australasian Political Studies Association journal, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 48-58
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 10-11, Heft 1, S. 274-277
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Heft 10-11, S. 274-277
ISSN: 0725-5136