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Li Cheng, China's Leaders
No full textBéja Jean-Philippe. Li Cheng, China's Leaders. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°68, 2001. pp. 67-69
Managerial responses to externally imposed performance measurement: an institutional theory perspective
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Description of three new species and new distributional data for four species of Anagyrus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from China
No full textZu, Guo-Hao, Li, Cheng-De (2015): Description of three new species and new distributional data for four species of Anagyrus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from China. Zootaxa 4028 (2): 257-273, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.2.
The NHS performance assessment framework as a balanced scorecard approach: limitations and implications
No full textPurpose: the use of the balanced scorecard has been subject to increasing scrutiny and criticism in academic literature. The purpose of this paper is to explore the limitations of, and implications for, the Performance Assessment Framework (PAF) as a balanced scorecard approach in the NHS. Although Kaplan and Norton suggested that the balanced scorecard can be adapted for strategic performance management purposes in the public sector, this study aims to argue that such claims fail to give sufficient weight to the political context in which a public sector organization operates.
Design/methodology/approach: semi-structured interviews were employed to investigate the perceptions about the PAF of local managers and whether and how they incorporated central government's performance targets into their local operations within two health authorities. Furthermore, in order to examine these two health authorities' performance measurement practices, documents relating to their internal performance reports and local delivery plans were analysed.
Findings: empirical findings drawn from local health authorities indicate that the use of the PAF was primarily for legitimacy seeking purposes rather than for rational performance improvement. For central government, the PAF was used to make the performance of the NHS visible to the public so that the public would receive the signal that central government has attempted to deliver government mandates. For local health authority managers, in order to seek legitimacy from central government, imposed performance indicators were incorporated into their local performance measurement practice. However, the use of the PAF was symbolic and ceremonial and had little impact on improving performance valued by local managers in NHS.
Originality/value: this study agrees with institutional theorists' argument that the use of performance measurement systems should take into account politics and power faced by an organization. In the NHS, performance measurement might be used by local NHS organizations primarily as a ceremonial means of demonstrating their symbolic commitment for legitimacy seeking purpose
FIGURE 1 in Three new species of the Encarsia inaron (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) species group from China with a key to Chinese species
No full textFIGURE 1. Encarsia azimi, ♀: 1, part of mesoscutum with inner sculpture enlarged. Scale bars = 50 µm.Published as part of Geng, Hui & Li, Cheng-De, 2017, Three new species of the Encarsia inaron (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) species group from China with a key to Chinese species, pp. 208-222 in Zootaxa 4306 (2) on page 210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/84373
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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