Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how new public management (NPM) reform from the national level is implemented as practice in a local unit within the police sector in Sweden. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative case‐study approach is applied using...

Executive Behaviour (Executive behaviour. Stockholm: Strömbergs) describes the first systematic study ever made of top managers at work. It is regarded as a classic, but due to circumstances that will be discussed below, its impact on general management theory has been relatively modest. An...

Is top management work a stable or a changing phenomenon? Compared to a classic study about managerial work (Executive Behaviour, Strömbergs, Stockholm, 1951), this article examines evolving management practices in the internationalised economy. The results show that the participants in the new...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how new public management (NPM) reform from the national level is implemented as practice in a local unit within the police sector in Sweden. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative case-study approach is applied using semi-structured...