Performance information use by politicians and public managers for internal control and external accountability purposes

TL;DR: In this article, a literature review of 100 publications in international academic journals over the last 20 years is presented to examine the commonalities and differences between performance management practices in the public and private sector.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the current state of the art and future research opportunities for performance measurement and management (PMM) in public sector management using two main techniques named (1) performance analysis and (2) science mapping techniques.

TL;DR: This paper provided a systematic literature review of 236 papers on public sector accounting research in higher education from 83 analysed journals from the three areas of accounting, public management and administration, and higher education between 1980 and 2014.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as "New Public Management" (NPM), the intellectual provenance of those ideas, explanations for their apparent persuasiveness in the 1980 s; and criticisms which have been made of the new doctrines.

TL;DR: A review of the Social Sciences Citations Index for the literature from 1966 to 1990 revealed that Cronbach's (1951) article had been cited approximately 60 times per year and in a total of 278 different journals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the economy and the Arena of Normative and De Facto Powers in the context of social norms and economic action in the social sciences, and propose several categories of economic action.