Year
2005
Authors
BOURGUIGNON Annick, SAULPIC O., ZARLOWSKI P.
Abstract
In this case study we analyze in a French public company the adoption mode of a new management control system pertaining to New Public Management principles. We compare the formal system designed and deployed in the organization, the discourses of its promoters and users and the observed practices of the latter. We identify clear decoupling patterns occurring here at the utilization level of the new system. We elaborate on the notion of decoupling and discuss the reasons conducing to the observed decoupling patterns in this organization.
BOURGUIGNON, A., SAULPIC, O. et ZARLOWSKI, P. (2005). The Diffusion, Adoption and Impact of New Public Management: A Case Study of a French Public Company. Dans: EIASM Workshop on Trends and Fashions in Management Studies. Lisbon.