01406pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002100040245013100061260000900192300001500201362000800216520079200224650002601016773004501042908000601087909001001093999001701103952010401120180718b2012   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aChristensen, Tom  aGlobal ideas and modern public sector reforms: A theoretical elaboration and empirical discussion of a neoinstitutional theory  c2012  ap.635-653.  aNov  aThe neoinstitutional theory of global ideas formulated by organization theory experts at Stanford University and also espoused by some Scandinavian researchers postulates a formalized, rationalized, and standardized organizational template created through cultural and macrosocial processes that spreads around the world. This template is said to fit everywhere, regardless of national and local preconditions, creating isomorphy between public organizations, but not having much real influence on practice. This article elaborates the theory, discussing it in relation to two alternative theories-an instrumental and an old institutional one, and looks at whether it matches the findings of comparative studies of two reform waves-New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM. - Reproduced.  aAdministrative reform  aAmerican Review of Public Administration  aN  a98132  c98131d98131  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 42, Issue no: 6pAR98592r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR