Measures of effectiveness for governmental organizations

Management Science

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 42-58

  Gawande, Kishore ^a   Wheeler, Timothy ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Government Agencies; Measures of Effectiveness; Missing Data; Poisson Models

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS (MOE); POISSON MODELS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032634572     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.45.1.42     Document Type: Article

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