...Ajay Chhibber; Swati Gupta Purpose While national public policies such as performance contracts and disinvestment affect the dynamics of large- and medium-scale state-owned enterprises in emerging market economies, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the performance of India’s public sector...

...Mads Bøge Kristiansen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how variation in the content of the performance contracts (number and types of targets) across agencies can be understood. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is conducted as a cross-sectional quantitative study carried...

... Group Publishing Limited 2005 Public administration Developing countries Performance management Performance contracts Public policy A paradox of development management is that while governments have for many years declared their commitment to performance improvement they have...