Finance, Quality and Performance
Objectives
The research into financial management, performance management and performance measurement takes the central importance of an output and outcome orientation in the public sector as its point of departure.
(i) The overarching research questions about performance measurement are threefold. First, what are the causes and conditions for performance measurement? Second, how can performance measurement systems be designed that are fit for use? Hereby, use is not a one-dimensional concept. Third, what are the effects of performance measurement on organizations?
(ii) The research on performance management focuses on the use of performance information in policy planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The main research questions are: Which initiatives are taking place worldwide to implement performance management systems? What are the main conditions for the performance information to be used? How can the different applications of performance management be aligned?
(iii) The research about financial
management describes the ways in which governments
are modernizing their financial cycle (budgeting,
accounting and auditing). In addition, the success
or failure of implementing results-oriented financial
management reforms is explained.
Different research methodologies are being used:
international comparative research, document analysis
and surveys. The complementarities of the different
research methodologies are explicitly pursued.
Some recent research projects
- Menu for justice. Toward a European curriculum studiorum on justice studies (2009 - 2012, Research project-copromotor)
- Auditing versus evaluating: evolution of strategic behaviour of Supreme Auditing Institutions (2007 - 2012, Doctoral research)
- Effectiveness of financial innovations in Flemish municipalities and Public Centres for Social Welfare: an integrated neo-institutionalist and resource dependence perspective (2007 - 2012, Doctoral research)
- Efficiency in Local Government (2011 - 2011, Research project)
- Efficiency and effectiveness of public service: Scientific support for the activities and proceedings of the Commission for an Efficient and Effective Government (2010 - 2011, Research project)
- Governmental organization in Flanders: Efficient and Effective Government (2010 - 2011, Research project)
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Some recent publications
- Oomsels Peter, Bouckaert Geert (2012). Managing trust in public organisations: A consolidated approach and its contradictions.
International Research Society for Public Management. Rome, Italy, 11-13 April 2012.
Download pdf - Pollitt Christopher (2012). Public management reform in Europe. What's the score?.
Inaugural address to the Northhumbria University Research Centre in International Public Policy and Management. 9 p.
Download pdf - Bouckaert Geert, Halligan John (2011). Managing Performance Across Levels of Government: lessons learned or reproducing disconnects?.
In: Holzer Marc, Ongaro Eduardo, Massey Andrew & Wayenberg Ellen (Eds.) Policy, performance and management in IGR and MLG -settings, a Transatlantic perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp.236-254
More info by publisher - Pollitt Christopher (2011). Not odious but onerous: comparative public administration.
Public Administration. From networks to traditions via the core executive. 89(1): 114-127
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