...Altamash Janjua; Farrukh Attique; Adil Raza; Waqar Akbar Purpose Effective performance management of local governments is essential for efficient service delivery to the citizens. This is especially true for developing countries where performance management of public sector is severely lacking...

... to literature by examining the performance management system of the Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Assembly in the Western Region of Ghana by describing and drawing lessons from local government experiences in the implementation of performance management systems in developing countries. Performance management...

...Francesca Manes Rossi; Natalia Aversano Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the implementation of performance measurement tools by medium-to-large size Italian Local Governments (ILGs) with the aim of establishing their position in comparison with the content of the International...

... the determinants factors to performance in developing countries. This paper aims to contribute to the knowledge in this area by providing some empirical evidence about the importance of management and resource for the local government performance. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a cross...

...Arie Halachmi; Dorothea Greiling; Johan A.M. de Kruijf Purpose This paper aims to address the possibilities for (performance‐based) control of externally autonomised (empowered) entities which operate at the level of local government in The Netherlands. The idea is that Dutch regulations do...

...Suchanya Posayanant; Chotchai Chareonngam Purpose It is difficult to manage and measure the effectiveness of infrastructure development efforts of the sub‐district local governments called Tambon Administrative Organizations (TAOs), the lowest level of local governments in Thailand. This paper...

...Yvonne Brunetto; Rod Farr‐Wharton Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the impact of the quality of employee enablers (in this case measured by the quality of the communication relationship between local government employees and supervisors) with the ideal “high quality social capital...

... or Poor. It is a system that, as comparative data on the scale of local government demonstrate, could only be attempted in the UK. The article is written as a non‐technical and evaluative narrative of the introduction, early operation and impact of this system, concluding with the changes in methodology...

...Zoe Radnor; Mike Kennerley; Robyn Pilcher Purpose Local government in Australia has a complex system of accountability, part of which includes the publication of financial comparative performance measures. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how questionable financial figures not only...

... increasing pressure on local government both from central government and from communities in terms of cost reductions, service improvements, quality services and competition and increased accountability. The latest is the UK government's “best value” initiative (Wisniewski and Stewart, 2001). As part of its...