Internal and external use of performance information in public organizations: Results from an international survey

Public Money and Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 261-268

  Hammerschmid, Gerhard ^a   van de Walle, Steven ^b   Stimac, Vid ^a  

^a HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accountability; comparative public administration; executives; performance indicators; performance management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877849720     PISSN: 09540962     EISSN: 14679302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2013.799803     Document Type: Article

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