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Performance Management, Managerial Authority, and Public Service Performance
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This article is published in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.The article was published on 2014-04-01. It has received 94 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Performance management & Public service.read more
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Public Management, Context, and Performance: In Quest of a More General Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theory of context and how context affects the management-performance linkage. But, their analysis is limited to a small number of data sets on local governments in a few countries.
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Drivers of Performance Information Use: Systematic Literature Review and Directions for Future Research
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review of 25 recently published empirical studies that have examined drivers of performance information use was conducted, which identified factors that have repeatedly shown a positive impact: measurement system maturity, stakeholder involvement, leadership support, support capacity, innovative culture, and goal clarity.
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The Impact of Performance Management on Performance in Public Organizations: A Meta‐Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conduct a meta-analysis on the impact of performance management on performance in public organizations, and find that performance management has a small average effect, however, the effect is substantially larger when indicators of best practices in high-quality studies are included.
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Management Control, Results-Oriented Culture and Public Sector Performance: Empirical Evidence on New Public Management
Frank Verbeeten,Roland F. Speklé +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the validity of the results-oriented culture that emphasizes outcomes rather than inputs or processes and conclude that NPM's reform programme should be reconsidered.
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How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors randomly generate placebo laws in state-level data on female wages from the Current Population Survey and use OLS to compute the DD estimate of its "effect" as well as the standard error of this estimate.
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Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion
TL;DR: The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes.
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A Theory of Goal Setting and Task Performance
TL;DR: This article reviewed the book "A Theory of Goal Setting and Task Performance" by Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham and found it to be a good introduction to goal setting and task performance.
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Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses
TL;DR: A survey of the top three political science journals from 1998 to 2002 suggests that the execution of these models is often flawed and inferential errors are common as discussed by the authors, and that scholars follow the simple checklist of dos and don'ts for using multiplicative interaction models presented in this article.
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Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation. A 35-year odyssey.
Edwin A. Locke,Gary P. Latham +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize 35 years of empirical research on goal-setting theory and describe the core findings of the theory, the mechanisms by which goals operate, moderators of goal effects, the relation of goals and satisfaction, and the role of goals as mediators of incentives.