Leading groups: public sector reform with Chinese characteristics in a post-NPM era

In recent decades, the emerging post-New Public Management (post-NPM) reform wave has introduced a variety of coordinative organizational forms, among them super-ministries and networks. this study Leading Groups (LGs), form network that characterizes China’s public sector reforms, an instrumental-structural cultural-value perspective are used to analyze post-NPM features LG model, paying special attention its Chinese characteristics. It reveals LGs in fact part tradition have been revived Xi era. They resemble they designed strengthen integration coordination, but also show great deal cultural path-dependency. efforts central broader Party-dominated framework involving recentralization administrative power Party, which is typically Chinese.