...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...

..., there were still only 5 (38 percent) DGs and 11 (31 percent) Directors with performance agreements. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Public administration Developing countries Performance management Performance contracts Public policy A paradox of development management...