Introducing the "determinants of performance in public organizations" symposium.(INTRODUCTION)

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, October, 2005 by Boyne, George A.; Walker, Richard M.

The performance of public organizations has become a topic of great interest to scholars and practitioners of public management around the globe. This interest stems from theoretical and methodological puzzles posed by organizational performance. This is not just an academic endeavor--the desire of politicians to improve public services has become more important over recent years. In the United Kingdom the Labour government has published and implemented a Public Service Improvement strategy (Office of Public Service Reform 2002), while the U.S. federal government's National Performance Review and Government Performance Results Act 1993 from the Clinton administration through to George W. Bush's President's Management Agenda have sought higher levels of performance from...

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