New Book: "Global Warning! Debating International Developments in New
Public Financial Management" by Olov Olson, James Guthrie, and
Christopher Humphrey
MEDIA RELEASE
Wednesday, November 18, 1998 For
Immediate Release
(for details see http://www.gsm.mq.edu.au/pstc/globalwarning
The continuing application of New Public Management,
"commercialisation" and privatisation of some public sector functions in
Australia and Internationally may deny access to services for the
economically disadvantaged, according to a new book discussing the
impact of developments in new public financial management.
The book is the outcome of a unique two year collaborative project
involving 24 senior accounting academics from eleven different
countries, including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand,
Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States of
America.
John Meyer, Professor of Sociology at Stanford University observes in
his foreword to the book that it will be of great interest and value to
a wide ranging audience - not only to those concerned with accounting
and financial management, but also to organisational researchers,
political scientists and sociologists.
"This book is about the rise and international impact of a social
movement trying to reform public management around the world along
rational and rationalistic lines. The roots of the movement are in
professional accounting, especially in the private sector. The effort
is to bring models of New Public Financial Management, with many
associated accounting improvements, into place in state and local public
organizations. The movement has gained considerable force in the last
two decades, and has had widespread effects on the ways public
organizations are perceived, on policies governing them, and sometimes
on organizational practices.
Olov Olson, James Guthrie, and Christopher Humphrey, with colleagues
from eleven countries, have put together an extraordinary review of the
rise of New Public Management programs in these countries; on their
march to more or less successful adoption and implementation, and on
their impact on policy and practice. The project has been comparative
in character, and the analyses look at events in particular countries in
light of, and often in contrast to, events elsewhere.
According to James Guthrie, Professor in Management at Macquarie
Graduate School of Management and one of the book's editors, "Global
Warning!" is the result of a comprehensive two-year research project
encompassing eleven different countries.
"This book provides a much needed challenge to the rise and claimed
international success of new public financial management systems.
Previous research in the field has tended to focus on the accounting
principles of reform but we have chosen to address organisational,
social and managerial aspects as well".
"Throughout the book we have tried to highlight the impact on society of
public financial management reform and the movement towards greater
efficiency and a bottom-line orientation within the public sector.
"The book puts NPFM on trial in a way which it has never been in the
past. It replaces caricatured, broad brush depictions of different
national developments with a much needed detailed, comparative analysis
of experiences with NPFM. It questions what so often has gone
unquestioned; exploring the wide range of financial management
techniques which lie at the heart of so many new public management
initiatives, yet which have been repeatedly glossed over by leading
public administration writers. It challenges prior theories and
assumptions concerning the global spread and claimed irresistibility of
NPFM. It shows how public financial management is a live debating
subject, bursting with critical policy implications for the provision of
public services"
"Global Warning! Debating International Developments in New Public
Financial Management" available from CAPPELEN AKADEMISK FORLAG
publishers, Norway.
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