TY - BOOK U1 - Buch A1 - Löffler, Elke T1 - The Modernization of the Public Sector in an International Comparative Perspective BT - Concepts and Methods of Awarding and Assessing Quality in the Public Sector in OECD Countries N2 - Here, it will be argued that administrative modernization in the sense of the NPM is a global process but local in implementation. This amounts to the hypothesis that administrative modernization is 'culture and institution bound'. Tue institutional contingency approach taken in this study reflects the need to examine the nature of the multiple environmental conditions that structure how public organizations implement 'administrative modernization '. An environmental contingency model of administrative modernization strategies allows to reason on the NPM from "outside to inside" (Koiman and van Vliet, 1993:59) and to link two rather isolated concepts to each other: the governance concept with an interactive perspective on governing and the NPM concept with an orientation on the internal functioning of public organzations. T3 - Speyerer Forschungsberichte (FÖV) - 151 Y1 - 1995 U6 - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008102063 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008102063 PB - Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung CY - Speyer ET - 2., unveränderte Aufl. Mai 1996 ER -