Insights into performance-based budgeting in the public sector: a literature review and a research agenda

Public Management Review

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 911-931

  Mauro, Sara Giovanna ^a   Cinquini, Lino ^a   Grossi, Giuseppe ^b,c  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KOZMINSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Performance based budgeting; public sector; systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992169482     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2016.1243810     Document Type: Article

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