Chapter 3
Barriers to effectivemanagement control inlocal governments
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this chapter you should:
Appreciate the many barriers that local governments (LGs) face in their efforts to implement improved management control systems, and hence to move toward what has been called the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm.
Understand the distinction between bureaucratic control and managerial control.
Recognize that ...
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