Once Upon a Time in the Bureaucracy: Power and Public Sector Management
基于澳大利亚大型公共部门组织变革的民族志数据，研究发现沉积的官僚原则与创新的企业自由产生了围绕矛盾与未解决二元对立的新权力游戏，对改革支持与反对两派的观点均提出质疑。
The paper considers empirical data drawn from organizational change of a large Australian public sector organization in the context of debate about reform of public sector organizations. It provides an ethnographic account of new public management that confounds propositions drawn from literatures both sympathetic and antithetical to this reform process. Empirically, we find that sedimented bureaucratic principles and innovative `enterprising' freedom produce new power games around contradictory and unresolved dualisms. Neither reform hopes nor liberal anxieties are supported: instead, we identify continuing points for pressure in the organizational politics of bureaucratic reform.