New Public Management and New Professionalism across Nations and Contexts Journal Articles

abstract

• The professions in the West are undergoing unprecedented calls for greater accountability and efficiency in service delivery. This article links these changes to recent developments in institutional theory that emphasize shifting salience of technical over symbolic organizational environments. The analysis of the adaptations to these changes in French and British healthcare, Canadian education and US managerial consulting suggest that country-specific responses to neoliberal institutional pressures are highly path dependent. The article concludes by suggesting a research program for the future study of the cross-national responses of professional groups to neoliberal economic and political ideologies.

authors

• Leicht, Kevin T
• Walter, Tony
• Sainsaulieu, Ivan
• Davies, Scott

status

• published 

publication date

• July 2009

has subject area

• 1608 Sociology (FoR)
• Sociology (Science Metrix)

published in

• Current Sociology  Journal

keywords

• GLOBALIZATION
• Social Sciences
• Sociology
• institutional theory
• neoliberalism
• new professionalism
• new public management
• postindustrial society
• professional accountability

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0011392109104355

start page

• 581

end page

• 605

volume

• 57

issue

• 4