Challenging the NPM ideas about performance management: Selectivity and differentiation in outcome-oriented performance budgeting

Financial Accountability and Management

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 287-315

  Ter Bogt, Henk J ^a   Jan Van Helden, G ^a   Van Der Kolk, Berend ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

NPM; Performance budgeting; Performance management; Programme differentiation; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953712062     PISSN: 02674424     EISSN: 14680408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faam.12058     Document Type: Article

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