Future prospects for performance management in Chinese city governments

Administration and Society

Volumn 42, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Walker, Richard M ^a,b   Wu, Jiannan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese city governments; Delphi method; Performance evaluation; Performance management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953824178     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: 15523039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399710361853     Document Type: Article

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