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Performance management in action: a configurational analysis of the drivers of the purposeful use of performance information
Full text linkThe article explores which configurations of organizational and individual conditions support the purposeful use of performance information in the public sector. Prior research has predominantly focused on the effects of individual factors without paying as much attention to how these factors interact to influence public managers’ attitudes to integrating performance information into their decision-making.
The study employs a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fs-QCA) to examine the different combinations of organizational and individual drivers that facilitate purposeful performance information use.
The results show that goal clarity is a necessary but insufficient condition for purposeful information use. It needs to be complemented by a mature performance management system, public managers with prosocial motivation who engage in extra-role behaviors within a non-innovative organizational culture, or a developmental culture that motivates managers who are unaware of the social impact generated by their work.
The study suggests the need to integrate actions that support the purposeful use of performance information and define clear departmental goals. Although the latter is a necessary condition, it needs to be supported by other organizational and individual factors. Also, the study deepens the theory of the drivers of purposeful performance information use in the public sector by adopting a configurational approach and exploring how organizational and individual conditions interact to foster information use.
As the case selection does not allow for direct generalizations, future studies could replicate the configurational analysis in different countries and sectors and introduce additional environmental, organizational, and individual conditions
Chapter 21 – Global Health
No full textThe chapter describes the evolution of global health policies in the wider context of development strategies and sinthetically analyses and maps governance dynamics and actors in global health
Theme: Financial sustainability and cutback management. Global issues for public organizations
No full textGlobal health
No full textThe chapter describes the role of Global Health policies and governance in the wider context of global public policie
Steering or drifting? Reviving social equity through performance measurement in hybrid organizations
No full textWe examine organizations’ use of performance management systems to pursue social equity and avoid mission drift using a case study of an Italian housing organization. Out qualitative research design included archival data and semi-structured interviews. We argue that there is a nexus between organizational measurements of social equity, neglect of social equity outcomes, and mission drift
Introduction to the special issue: “Performance measurement systems in universities: Threats or opportunities for governance?”
Full text linkThe change in the public university setting in the last few decades, with the wave of
New Public Management (NPM) logics and neo-liberal imperatives supported by a
mode of regulation based on “fabrication” (Ball, 2000), commodification (Radin,
2001) and performativity (Lyotard, 1984), has led to a drastic reduction of public
funds, managerialization and dramatic cut in costs, while obnubilating the idea that
public universities produce public goods
Local governments managing austerity: approaches, determinants and impact
No full textThe global financial and economic crisis that hit Western countries between 2007 and 2008 has generated an extensive literature. Several policy responses are now recognized, based on the way governments reallocate scarce public resources across budget categories; these approaches have a differential impact on the sustainability of cuts and on performance and trust. What determines the choice of one approach over another is a relevant, yet unexplored, research question. The article highlights the factors driving the adoption of specific crisis management approaches. A conceptual model and key propositions derived from the literature are applied to the case studies of six local governments. A comparative analysis of the interactions among internal and external determinants through a multi-year timeframe provides valuable insights that improve our understanding of crisis management
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