‘Businessing’ Bureaucracy: entrepreneurial governance and public management

Abstract

The idea that public sector bureaucracies need reforming has achieved a somewhat axiomatic status. To what extent and in which direction remains a matter of some debate. In recent years, however, one particular approach has established a certain pre‐eminence and it is this approach which underpins many of the public sector reforms currently taking place across the advanced economies. This new modus operandi is often termed ‘entrepreneurial governance’ (Osborne and Gaebler, 1991).

Citation

Du Gay, P. (1994), "‘Businessing’ Bureaucracy: entrepreneurial governance and public management", Management Research News, Vol. 17 No. 7/8/9, pp. 20-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028348