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New Public Management as a Reform Initiative in the Australian Public Sector: Demonstrated Evidence from Literature
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Anup Chowdury(1*)
Nikhil Chandra Shil(2) (1) Department of Business Administration, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bangladesh
(2) Department of Business Administration, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
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During the last 40 years the three tiers of Australian government (Commonwealth, State and Local) have implemented a series of financial and administrative reforms related to the New Public Management. A large number of research studies concentrated on the implementation of this new ideal in different countries and levels of the public sector. These reforms have forced the Australian public sector to promote private sector models of organisation structure, management systems, accounting practices, and accountability relationships This study briefly focuses on a literature review of studies related with the changes in the public sector in Australia linked to New Public management.
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