New Public Management Principles aimed to Enhance the Efficiency and Transparency in Public Procurements /

This Master’s thesis deals with the analysis of the conception and implementation of the new public management principles within the public procurement procedures in Lithuania and Sweden. Moreover, this thesis has the intention to explore and analyze in general the scenarios of public procurement, this in terms of it's scope and the inclusion of new public management doctrines within the execution of those procedures. In the first part, the theoretical section, relates towards the framework of the new public management concept. Likewise, this section analyses the characteristics of the 7 principles exposed by the NPM trend, while covering the main features around the current scenarios of public procurement. Moreover, the empirical structure selected within this research was framed within the application of document analysis, interviews and finally, surveys, the latter, under the figure of pilot test. The data was gathered from public servants of municipalities and administrative districts of Sweden and Lithuania. On the basis of the results of this research, the present paper concluded that if well, is possible to perceive an important degree of inclusion of new public management principles within the public procurement procedures in the selected samples; aimed mainly, towards the achieving of a more efficient and transparent management, that fits with the needs of the citizens. Either or not, from external or internal initiatives, and with a degree of implication in the re-estructuring and redefinition of the manner how are managed the public organizations, there is still a blurry picture towards the true potential implementation of these doctrines within the enhance of these scenarios.

Grantor dc:publisher

Institutional Repository of Vilnius University

Year dc:date

2016

Author dc:creator

• Becerra Avila, Juan Sebastian,

Contributors dc:contributor

• Navickas, Kęstutis

• New Public Management ; Public Procurements ; Efficiency

Statement dc:rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Language dc:language

eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.vu.lt/VU:ELABAETD16980054&prefLang=en_US

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vu.lt:elaba:16980054