Purpose – This paper aims to consider the suitability of Anglo‐American new public management (NPM) practices in the context of public sector reform in Japan. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the two principal alternative approaches that have been taken to public sector...

Purpose Due to scarcity of research in governance and accountability in private higher education in developing countries, the purpose of this paper is to explore the tensions surrounding good governance in legitimizing accountability in private universities in developing countries with reference...