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"Promoting the Utilization of Performance Measures in Public Organizations: An Empirical Study of Factors Affecting Adoption and Implementation"

Lancer Julnes, Patria de and Holzer, Marc

Public Administration Review, November/December 2001, pp. 693-708.

Despite overwhelming recognition of the merits of performance measurement in the public sector, just over half (53 percent) of all governments are believed to have developed some form of performance measurement system. More discouraging, only 23 percent of these jurisdictions actually use performance measures for strategic planning, resource allocation, or program monitoring. Knowing this, the authors set out to determine what factors influence the utilization of performance measurement, which they divide into a two-step process of adoption and implementation. Adoption refers to the development of performance measures and the collection of the necessary data, while implementation refers to the use of these measures for ...

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