Resumen de Challenges for the New Public Management in Mexico: Patrimonialism and Colonial Values
- español
El argumento básico de este artículo es que en México (y de manera general en América Latina), los conceptos de control y poder son diferentes de aquellos adoptados en los países que han generado las ideas de la Nueva Gerencia Pública.
- English
The main argument here is that in Mexico (and in general in Latin America as well), the concepts of control andpower are different from those embraced by countries that have generated the basic ideas of today’s managerial reforms (USAand Commonwealth countries). Following the track of an old Mexican institution (as old as at least Colonial times), patrimonialism, we can understand that the necessity of control of local or particular powers through a centralised one, and the permanent tensión between these two, are the basic patform for individual and group behaviour. And this not only at political level, but at organisational level as well. Values and attitudes as collective necessities (more than individual rationality), network (familiar,political, economical) influence (more than work performance),informal agreement (more than contractual rules and objectives),simulation of behaviour (more than direct and honest behaviour),and strong personal leadership (rather than impersonal legal leadership) are the bases for understanding the Mexican way of organising, and the limits of “modern” managerial techniques for their adaptation to this country.
