Innovating Canadian sport policy: towards new public management and public entrepreneurship?

Policy scholars, both within and outside of sport, have pointed to trends that emphasise neoliberal and free market orientations within public sector organisations. Given such developments, this paper utilises New Public Management (NPM) and Public Entrepreneurship (PE) to explore the Canadian Sport Policy (CSP). Thematic analysis was employed to compare and analyse the 2002 and 2012 CSP documents and other related CSP texts. Study findings...