Plans, performance information and accountability: the case of Best Value

By George A. Boyne, J. Gould-Williams, Jennifer Law, R. M. Walker. 2002

129 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management Information Systems

1. B. George
2. Henk J. ter Bogt
3. Stijn Goeminne
4. Mieke Audenaert
5. Robert W. Scapens
6. Adelien Decramer
7. Martin Baekgaard
8. Marko Järvenpää

In Public Administration

1. B. George
2. Hans de Bruijn
3. Henk J. ter Bogt
4. Stijn Goeminne
5. Mieke Audenaert
6. Ciaran Connolly
7. Robert W. Scapens
8. Adelien Decramer

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Hans de Bruijn
2. Alpa Dhanani
3. Ciaran Connolly
4. Martin Baekgaard
5. W. Dicke

Citations in the corpus

• STRATEGIES FOR SAFEGUARDING PUBLIC VALUES IN LIBERALIZED UTILITY SECTORS (2006, background): “There are services of general interest (see, for example, EC 2004), public values (see, for example, Moore 1995; Jorgensen and Bozeman 2002) , public objectives (see, for example, Noam 1996), public interests (see, for example, Blumstein 1999 ; Raad voor Verkeer en Waterstaat 2003), externalities ”
• Performance Management in Universities: Effects of the Transition to More Quantitative Measurement Systems (2012, background): “In order to increase transparency and accountability, and to facilitate the control of autonomous decentralised units, in recent years there has been a considerable increase in many countries in various types of assessments and audits, including value-for-money audits and performance audits (Power, ”
• Discharging not-for-profit accountability: UK charities and public discourse (2012, background): “Grounded in ethical principles, accountability here is a felt responsibility (Lawry, 1995; Boyne et al., 2002; Najam, 2002; Ebrahim, 2003a), in which organizations want to and choose to genuinely account to/for their diverse constituents.”
• Institutional isomorphism, negativity bias and performance information use by politicians: A survey experiment (2020, background): “Examples include the Government Performance and Results Act in the US, Best Value in the UK, and the Policy and Management Cycle in Flanders (Kravchuk and Schack 1996; Boyne et al. 2002; George et al. 2016).”