Solar, Carlos (2020) Introducing Change in Public Service Organizations under Austerity: The Complex Case of the Governance of the Defence in the United Kingdom. Politics and Policy, 48 (4). pp. 700-726. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12368
Solar, Carlos (2020) Introducing Change in Public Service Organizations under Austerity: The Complex Case of the Governance of the Defence in the United Kingdom. Politics and Policy, 48 (4). pp. 700-726. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12368
Solar, Carlos (2020) Introducing Change in Public Service Organizations under Austerity: The Complex Case of the Governance of the Defence in the United Kingdom. Politics and Policy, 48 (4). pp. 700-726. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12368
Abstract
Introducing, managing, and sustaining change in public service organizations is challenging for policy makers to implement and for scholars to theorize. In 2010, the U.K. Government introduced policy changes to help bring down the national deficit. The executive's planned reforms aimed to deliver a so‐called battle‐winning military force, a smaller and more professional Ministry of Defence, and an affordable overall defence organization. The article borrows from theories of management and public policy to help enlighten our understanding of change under New Public Management and governance approaches. The article's central claim is that the U.K. Government sought to correct cost‐efficiency processes in public service organizations trying to reshape organizational and managerial structures dependent on many internal and external pressures. The article examines the executive's purpose in developing a need for change and the ways to implement it. I question whether the U.K. Government's prescriptive and hierarchical approach to organizational change in public administration is sustainable in the long term.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | New Public Management, Governance, Planned and Emergent Change, United Kingdom, Coalition Government, Public Administration, Policy Making, Defence Sector, Reforms, Public Policy, Public Service Organizations. |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2020 08:10 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:23 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/28469 |
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