Performance‐based management is pervasive in public organizations; countless
governments have implemented performance management systems with the hope that they …

Introduction Concerns about reproducibility and impact of research urge improvement
initiatives. Current university ranking systems evaluate and compare universities on …

The university research environment has been undergoing profound change in recent
decades and performance-based research funding systems (PRFSs) are one of the many …

In the third edition of his award-winning book, Hal G. Rainey provides a comprehensive, up-
to-date analysis of research on public organizations and management. Drawing on a review …

A rigorous analysis of the impact—and implications—of performance funding for higher
education. Seeking greater accountability in higher education, many states have adopted …

This article proposes a reputation‐based approach to account for two core puzzles of
accountability. The first is the misfit between behavioral predictions of the hegemonic …

Current interest in teacher evaluation focuses disproportionately on measurement issues
and performance-based pay without an overarching theory of how evaluation works. To …

This article surveys the policy feedback framework developed in political science and
clarifies its implications for public administration. A feedback perspective encourages us to …

Years of research on performance management has generally concluded that performance
information is seldom used purposefully by public managers and that it does not improve …

Empirical research investigating the association between teacher pay incentives and
student test scores has grown rapidly over the past decade. To integrate the findings from …