While many know or have used the term Managerialism, the development of a theory about Managerialism remains largely non‐existent. When management becomes an ideology we speak of Managerialism reaching beyond the simple administration of a business organisation. Like many “‐isms”, Managerialism carries connotations to ideology, thereby leading to the question: what would the development of a theory of Managerialism's ideology look like? Since Managerialism has been largely been clarified (Klikauer, 2013 & 2015), this paper builds on these ideas to examine the question of a theory of Managerialism ideology. This is tackled in three steps: the paper discusses what an ideology is; this is followed by a brief outline of twelve characteristics of ideology delivering a threefold definition of ideology and leading to two schools of thoughts; finally, the paper shows how ideology and Managerialism are linked. The paper's key argument is that any theory development on Managerialism cannot avoid the issue of ideology.

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管理主义作为意识形态的初步理论

尽管许多人知道或使用过“管理主义”一词，但有关管理主义理论的发展仍然不存在。当管理成为一种意识形态时，我们所说的管理主义已经超越了对企业组织的简单管理。像许多“主义”一样，管理主义带有意识形态的内涵，从而引发了一个问题：管理主义意识形态理论的发展将是什么样？由于管理主义在很大程度上已经得到澄清（Klikauer，2013和2015），因此本文基于这些思想来研究管理主义意识形态理论的问题。这可以通过三个步骤来解决：本文讨论了意识形态是什么；接下来是对意识形态十二个特征的简要概述，提供了意识形态的三个定义，并导致了两种思想流派。最后，本文说明了意识形态和管理主义是如何联系在一起的。本文的主要论点是，任何关于管理主义的理论发展都不能避免意识形态问题。