Modernising Government: The Calculating Self, Hybridisation and Performance Measurement

Kurunmäki, Liisa; Miller, Peter

doi:10.1111/j.0267-4424.2006.00394.x

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“…Clearly, decoupling has weakened the professional logic between teaching and research. As new organisational forms and processes of accounting take over, there are fears that the teaching and research profession will become hybridised in varying degrees (Kurunmaki and Miller, 2006); perhaps indicating that there will no longer be a tight coupling between teaching and research.…”

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The role of accounting in transforming public tertiary institutions in New Zealand

Narayan

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2018

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Purpose -This paper evaluates the role and influence played by the discipline of accounting through its association with the multiple logics of government reforms to transform the public tertiary education sector in New Zealand.Design/methodology/approach -The study adopts a case study approach utilising multiple data collection methods. Neo-institutional theory (NIT) provides an insightful and valuable complement to neo-liberalism and enhances our understanding of institutional logics driving government reforms and the transformation of public tertiary institutions.Findings -The findings reveal that accounting has become a powerful conduit for the exercise of the neo-liberalism reforms by government and implemented by managerial control over public tertiary education institutions.Research implications -By addressing a gap in the literature the paper shows how political and economic neo-liberal policies have been implemented in tertiary education with the discipline of accounting being adopted as a prime driver of these reforms. The paper has significant implications for educational management, academics and learners in understanding how and why the inherent nature, objectives and processes of the overall educational experience has undergone a radical reformation.Originality/value -New Zealand is one of the first countries to implement these educational reforms and adopted 'accounting technologies' to reduce costs and improve performance. But the reality has often been very different. Most of the government's original objectives have not been fulfilled and the reforms have been costly for the academic profession. This paper provides a valuable source of learning for academics, managers and politicians.

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“…The NPM ideologies have given accounting greater prominence and accounting-based technologies have occupied a central role to make operable the activities, programmes and rationalities of government (Kurunmaki and Miller, 2006).…”

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The role of accounting in transforming public tertiary institutions in New Zealand

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2018

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“…the quality of health care or the decency of imprisonment) into quantities, through devices such as patient satisfaction questionnaires, rankings (of schools, universities, care homes, prisons, and so on), balanced scorecards, and much else besides. These, in turn, can then be subjected to a variety of further calculations and comparisons through audits and other forms of more or less public assessment (Espeland & Sauder, 2007;Kurunmäki & Miller, 2006;Mennicken, 2010Mennicken, , 2013Power, 1997;Samiolo, 2012).…”

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Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives

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2014

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies

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and KeywordsThis chapter suggests that Michel Foucault is a nuisance for scholars of organizations, albeit a productive one. Foucault disavowed the study of organizations, yet his work was fundamentally concerned with the administering of lives, a central concern of scholars of organizations. The chapter explores this tension by examining four displacements that Foucault sought to effect: first, a move from asking 'why' type questions to 'how' type questions; second, a concern with subjectivity that discards the ethical polarization of subject and object in favour of an analysis of the historically varying ways in which the capacities and attributes of subjects are constituted; third, a focus on practices rather than organizations, and a concern to analyse sets or assemblages of practices in terms of how they emerge and how they are stabilized over time; fourth, a focus on rationalities in the plural. It then examines the 'Foucault effect' in organization studies.

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“…Il convient donc de travailler sur ces nouvelles formes de contrôle de gestion propres à ces champs particuliers, c'est-à-dire de considérer l'adaptation des outils et techniques de contrôle nécessaire pour instrumenter ces organisations sans remettre en cause leur nature même et leurs spécifi cités. C'est ce que décrivent, par exemple, Kurunmaki & Miller (2006) en soulignant la nécessité d'une hybridation. Sur le plan de l'ancrage théorique, les travaux qui se rattachent à cette approche s'inscrivent, comme ceux décrits dans la première partie de cet article, dans la perspective structuro-fonctionnaliste et sont centrés sur la dimension instrumentale des systèmes de contrôle.…”

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“…En fait, en idéalisant les instruments de gestion au travers d'un mythe rationalisateur et en faisant porter leurs efforts sur eux seuls, les réformes mises en oeuvre « n'ont pas abouti aux changements de comportement et de culture nécessaires à plus long terme » (OCDE, 2005b). La mise en oeuvre d'un ensemble de techniques managériales issues du secteur privé (Hood, 1991, Kurunmaki & Miller, 2006, dont on attend une amélioration de l'effi cacité et de l'effi cience des organisations, a en effet été réalisée souvent de façon très normative comme l'a montré récemment en France le premier cahier de la Direction Générale de la Modernisation de l'Etat publié en mars 2007 3 .…”

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Modernising Government: The Calculating Self, Hybridisation and Performance Measurement

Cited by 158 publications

References 19 publications

The role of accounting in transforming public tertiary institutions in New Zealand

The role of accounting in transforming public tertiary institutions in New Zealand

Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives

Une voie de compréhension du contrôle de gestion dans les organisations non marchandes : la métaphore de l’iceberg

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