Irvine Lapsley is director of the Institute of Public Sector Accounting Research at the University of Edinburgh Business School, UK.

Hans Knutsson is a senior lecturer at the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden.

1. Making Sense of Public Sector Reforms: Scandinavian Perspectives

Irvine Lapsley

2. New Public Management in a Scandinavian Context

Hans Knutsson, Ola Mattisson, Salme Nasi, Kari Nyland & Peter Skarbak

Part 1: Management

3. Shaping NPM: Social Democratic Values at Work

Tom S. Karlsson

4. Challenging the Myth of NPM in Denmark - An Argument from the Health System

Nikolaj Kure and Margit Malmmose

5. Process-orientation and Management Control in Health Care Organizations

Gert Paulsson

6. The Welfare Sate that Wanted to Keep Track of its Citizens: Personal Identity

Numbers as Administrative Technology

Alexander Paulsson

Part 2: Governance

7. The Unfolding of Agency Autonomy over Time: The Swedish Social Insurance

Agency 2003-2015

Louise Bringselius

8. Audit in a Trusting Climate

Age Johnsen, Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud, Thomas Carrington, and Kim Klarskov

Jeppesen

9. Local Government Cooperation - A Better Way to Respond to Conditions?

Ola Mattisson

10. What About the Boards? Issues of Transparency and Accountability in Board

Composition

Anna Thomasson

11. Leadership and Strategy in a Transforming Academic Field.

Christine Blomqvist

Part 3: Marketization

12. Market Solutions

Fredrik Andersson

13. Introducing Quasi-markets in Primary Care: The Swedish Experience

Anna Hager Glenngard & Anders Anell

14. Managing Profits and Professionalism in the Swedish School System

Robert Wenglen

15. Welfare Choices: A Story of Market Forces and Social Progress

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