Abstract

We present how new policy networks are promoting the new discourses and practices of New Public Management (NPM), which is a form of governance based on the transfer of private sector logics to the public sector (Ward, 2011). We explore how these new policy actors and networks conceive of the role of “leaders” in implementing entrepreneurial leadership. We provide an example of entrepreneurial leadership from New York City, a district that marketized its school district under Mayor Bloomberg; and an account of entrepreneurial leadership in Chile, where privatization and NPM have been implemented since 1973.