Agencification in Asia:  Lessons from Thailand, Hong Kong, and Pakistan

Pratama, Arif Budy

doi:10.22146/jkap.23008

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“…As highlighted in Table 2, the structural and procedural reforms in public management carried out for enhancing entrepreneurship—such as the creation of autonomous agencies, the managerial autonomization, the performance‐driven management, and the result‐based budgeting (Pratama, 2017)—have considerable implications for the procedures and means of public accountability. In particular, they are quite challenging to the formal means of accountability such as official rules, procedural fairness, hierarchical control, professional appraisal, and so on (Chan & Rosenbloom, 2010; Koike & Kabashima, 2008).…”

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“…First, there has been an emerging trend of converting public organizations and state enterprises into autonomous agencies providing a considerable degree of financial and managerial autonomy. In Thailand, agencification involved the transformation of each large government department into smaller business‐type units with greater specialization and autonomy, and these units are called Autonomous Public Organizations (Lorsuwannarat & Buracom, 2011; Pratama, 2017). In Singapore, such restructured organizational units are known as autonomous agencies.…”

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“…In other words, what public managers consider organizational priorities or issues deserving performance assessment, may not be the same priorities stressed by citizens and their elected political leaders. This point is crucial for consideration as the policy decisions based on agreed performance measures do not often require legislative approval (Pratama, 2017).…”

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Entrepreneurship‐driven public management reforms in Southeast Asia: Critical implications for public accountability

Haque

2020

Public Admin & Development

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In recent decades, public management has been restructured worldwide for greater efficiency and innovation based on entrepreneurship-driven models such as Reinventing Governance, New Public Management, and post-NPM frameworks. The primary intent of these businesslike models is instilling entrepreneurship, which would encourage risk-taking innovation, managerial autonomy, performance orientation, and customer choice. Such entrepreneurial orientation is embedded in organizationalmanagerial reforms related to human resource management, budgeting framework, performance benchmarking, and so on. These entrepreneurship-driven reforms have significant impacts on administrative structure, procedures, and norms affecting the process of public sector accountability. In line with such global trends, most countries in Southeast Asia have embraced some of these pro-market business-type reforms in public management to enhance its entrepreneurship, innovation, and competition, which have implications for managerial control, neutrality, regulation, and integrity required for public accountability. This article explores these entrepreneurship-driven reforms in the region and evaluates their critical implications for the long-established institutions, structures, and procedures of public accountability.

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Haque

2020

Public Admin & Development

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“…Agency model in Pakistan takes inspiration from NPM reforms, which was initiated under Western public sector reform movement. One of the driving forces of the adoption of the agency model was the loan and financial aid conditionality which was imposed by the international donor agencies (Pratama, 2017). However, these agencies are being governed with indigenous doctrines such as the influence of the political ministers on the discretionary power of the autonomous agencies, the political process of appointment and composition of the governing board members, a patronized political culture and the prevalence of an informal channel of communication between the bureaucrats and politicians.…”

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Politics of governing NPM-led agencies in Pakistan: influence of contextual factors on agency autonomy and control

Rizwan

Salman

Naveed

2022

IJPSM

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PurposeThis article aims to empirically investigate the influence of socio-cultural and political factors and actors on the perceived autonomy and control of state agencies in Pakistan. Taking an institutional perspective, which envisages a diverse course of agency reforms, owed to varied national cultures, historical paths and traditional mindsets, the authors argue that the institutional theory provides an explanation to the autonomy and control status of the agencies.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 39 senior public officials and governing board members in federal agencies by conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was performed using NVivo-12 for data analysis.FindingsThe results disclose that the agencies operate within an overriding politico-administrative culture of intervention and supremacy of the central government. There is a close relationship between the political actors and actors' implementing agents, the bureaucrats. Although the disaggregated public agencies are created under the agency model, a culture of political influence and control still prevails within them. Among the socio-cultural factors, corruption is reported as a critical influencing factor for agency autonomy.Research limitations/implicationsThe study emphasizes the need to adapt and modify agencification practices in developing countries based on the political, socio-cultural and administrative contextual factors and actors and the varying degrees of influence the practices exercise over the Government machinery.Originality/valueThis study unveils the implications of the new public management (NPM)-led agency model in Pakistan, which was primarily adopted as a part of the structural adjustment program (SAP) under loan conditionality from international donor agencies and explores the indigenous doctrines that govern agencies functioning under ministries.

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“…Government bureaucracy must be effective, efficient and achieve high performance to support government development agenda. To achieve that, modernizing performance management system in the bureaucracy is imperative (Pratama, 2017a). One manifestation of that has been the integration of policies and regulations on bureaucracy reform into performance-based initiatives, which has catapulted the notion of performance into day to day practice in Indonesian public administration.…”

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Does Public Service Motivation Matter to Employees’ Performance and Organizational Commitment in Sub-district Offices?

Pratama

Nurhidayah

2019

JKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik)

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Many studies on Public Service Motivation (PSM) were conducted extensively in the developed countries, including US and Western Europe. In addition, some research on PSM has been conducted in Eastern Asia, all which affirm the positive role that plays in in shaping the public sector. That said, studies on PSM in developing countries, including Indonesia is still limited. This is despite the fact that previous research associate PSM with improving public sector performance. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between public service motivation, organizational commitment, and individual performance in Magelang Municipality, which is one of the high performing local govern,ents in Indonesia. The data was drawn from 70 government employees in 3 Magelang Municipality sub-district Offices. Meanhwile, to to test the research hypothesises. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used. Resulst of the study validated the previous research findings that indicate positive influence of PSM on organizational commitment and individual performance. The result of this study has a practical implication for human resource development policy in Indonesian public sector. To that end, Public managers should take into account PSM in their managerial practices as it influences employee performance.

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Agencification in Asia: Lessons from Thailand, Hong Kong, and Pakistan

Abstract: This paper discusses the agencification phenomena as one of New Public Management (NPM)-

Cited by 5 publications

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Entrepreneurship‐driven public management reforms in Southeast Asia: Critical implications for public accountability

Entrepreneurship‐driven public management reforms in Southeast Asia: Critical implications for public accountability

Politics of governing NPM-led agencies in Pakistan: influence of contextual factors on agency autonomy and control

Does Public Service Motivation Matter to Employees’ Performance and Organizational Commitment in Sub-district Offices?

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