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Osborne’s Trilogy: A Critique of the Management Philosophy of David Osborne
Osborne’s Trilogy: A Critique of the Management Philosophy of David Osborne

Author(s): Jan-Erik Lane
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology
Keywords: Osborne’s Trilogy ; Critique of the Management Philosophy ; David Osborne

Summary/Abstract: Given the public attention rendered to Osborne’s writings on public management, it is both timely and necessary to provide a critique of his key books with various coauthors. His message is a simplistic version of NPM without any foundation in organisational theory or rational choice. His recommendations go against the wisdom of public administration and they are not strategy-proof from the point of view of asymmetric game theory.

  • Issue Year: VII/2006
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 006-014
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English