...Abiha Zahra; Geert Bouckaert Purpose With performance as a core theme of public sector reforms, this article explores performance management systems in inter-organizational settings while testing the effect of performance measurement on its use for accountability and control. Using economic neo...

... the traditional criteria for the recognition of assets, namely, control and economic benefits. With regards to economic benefits, however, the IPSASB has introduced the concept of “service potential” for qualifying an asset in the public sector. The reference to service potential provides the cornerstone...

...Budi Waluyo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the practices of financial autonomy and control the emerging issue of agencification in the higher education sector. Design/methodology/approach The practices are investigated using case studies from seven semi-autonomous state...

... to small businesses has a long public policy history, IC broke new ground in the way in which it sought to build capacity by deploying policy instruments that relied, not on regulatory or incentives-based tools, but rather on knowledge and networking. Implementation Innovation Control Values...

...Harry Barton; Roland Almqvist; Bino Catasús; Matti Skoog Purpose This paper aims to present an empirical case where fundamental changes in the environment have forced an organization to re‐evaluate its management control systems and possibly search for destabilizing supporting routines in order...

...Ian Taylor; Josie Kelly Purpose Seeks to examine how far Michael Lipsky's theory of discretion as it relates to public sector professionals as “street‐level bureaucrats” is still applicable in the light of public sector reform and in particular the introduction of increased managerial control over...

... with using comparative performance measures within the diverse grouping of local government services. Aims to measure the effectiveness of best value in a similar group of building control services by using a clustered benchmarking approach. The mainly qualitative research involves applying a strategic...

... Limited 2002 Management Efficiency Control Leadership Teachers Education Bureaucratic allocations, which tend to emphasise uniformity, are generally inefficient since they fail to recognise individual school and classroom level needs and capabilities. Ranson (1994) suggested...

...John J. Glynn; David Perkins Before the imposition of the NHS internal market, systems of accountability and control were far from adequate and could be criticized on a number of grounds. The market was offered as a panacea to address these inadequacies. However, in practice there have only been...

.... The thrust of economic regulation is the promotion of competition, efficiency and consumers’ interests. 4. Price control, encapsulated in a price‐cap formula (e.g. RPI‐X) is the main instrument for controlling privatized utilities[ 9 ]. 5. MMC acts as an “appellate” body to which referrals may...