Improving performance?: Exploring the complementarities between evaluation and performance management

Evaluation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Nielsen, Steffen Bohni ^a,b   Ejler, Nicolaj ^a  

^a Ramboll Management ^*  (Denmark)

^b RAMBOLL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Performance management; Performance measurement; Performance monitoring; Results based monitoring and evaluation systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149096565     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389007087538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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