Dynamics of performance-measurement systems

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 268-284

  Courty, Pascal ^a   Marschke, Gerald ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC SERVICE;

EID: 0041887116     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/19.2.268     Document Type: Article

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