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Promoting the utilization of performance measures in public organizations: an empirical study of factors affecting adoption and implementation

By: Julnes, Patria de Lancer.
Contributor(s): Holzer, Marc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelArticlePublisher: 2001Description: p.690-708.Subject(s): Organizations In: Public Administration ReviewSummary: Despite its appeal for improving government, many state and local governments have not developed performance-measurement systems, and even fewer use these systems to improve decision making. This study examines the factors that affect the utilization of performance measurement, based on the results of a national survey of state and local government officials. The goals of the study were to provide better information on the patterns of usage of performance measurement and to use this information to develop an elaborated model of the factors presumed to affect utilization. Using distinctions from the policy and evaluation literature, hypotheses were tested and confirmed: Policy adoption is driven more heavily by factors from rational and technocratic theory, whereas actual implementation is influenced by factors addresed by political and culturala considerations. - Reproduced
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Volume no: 61, Issue no: 6 Available AR51232

Despite its appeal for improving government, many state and local governments have not developed performance-measurement systems, and even fewer use these systems to improve decision making. This study examines the factors that affect the utilization of performance measurement, based on the results of a national survey of state and local government officials. The goals of the study were to provide better information on the patterns of usage of performance measurement and to use this information to develop an elaborated model of the factors presumed to affect utilization. Using distinctions from the policy and evaluation literature, hypotheses were tested and confirmed: Policy adoption is driven more heavily by factors from rational and technocratic theory, whereas actual implementation is influenced by factors addresed by political and culturala considerations. - Reproduced

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