Purpose – The aim of this paper is to understand factors governing the implementation of an innovative public sector … program. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal case study is used to document change and tension in the implementation … systems, such as HR, Finance and IT in the implementation of innovation in the public sector; where a classic “intrapreneur …

Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective by Keith M. Henderson and O.P. Dwivedi, and seeks to apply the ideas in that …

claim that bureaucracy has been replaced by post‐bureaucracy as a result of these changes. Design/methodology/approach – The … existence of post‐bureaucracy, per se , the paper argues that there has been a process of extending bureaucracy that cuts across … public and non‐public boundaries rather than the development of post‐bureaucracy per se . Findings – In examining the claims …

, delay achievement of more culturally accommodating reform of the bureaucracy acceptable to all the country's principal …

readily undermined in the process of implementation by elite groups able to influence government bureaucracy through an … reforms and weaknesses in both implementation and in the accountability of the procuring entities. A key factor in undermining … identifies two important and related reasons for such failings: elite capture of the government and bureaucracy by a powerful …

the implementation of active measures to private actors. Originality/value The paper adds to a small literature on the … implementation of activation policy in contemporary welfare states.  …