New public management in U.S. higher education: is privatization associated with lower costs?
研究了2005-2015年间159所美国公立研究型大学中，新公共管理的私有化维度与成本管理的关系，发现私有化与成本降低或升高并存，引发对成本效率、入学机会和多元平等的管理问题。
This study investigates the application of the three-dimensional New Public Management (NPM) framework to the public higher education setting to examine the relationship between one of the NPM dimensions, privatization, and cost management at 159 public research institutions in the United States between 2005 and 2015. We develop four statistical measures to quantify privatization and find privatization is linked to lower costs as institutions increase the share of revenue from auxiliary enterprises and tuition and fees, but higher costs when increasing out-of-state first-year enrolment. This raises management questions about public higher education cost efficiency, access and DEI for in-state students.