Over the last twenty years, new public management (NPM) has inspired managerial reforms in public sectors worldwide. The US and Italian governments have embraced one of the main tenets of NPM, managing for results. In this study, we assess the introduction of performance management practice in...

Leaders of the Peruvian Ministry of Defense (MINDEF), at the direction of national lawmakers and the Ministry of Economics and Finance (MEF), have begun a process to implement a results-based budget (RBB). A change in national law prompted the current transition from an input (cash)-based,...

It is widely believed that the growing use of electronic financial transactions should reduce physical vulnerability to crimes such as robbery and burglary. Using a sample of 49 countries over six years, we test this hypothesis using fixed effects (FE) and difference GMM estimators. Our results...

Charity watchdogs and the media level serious allegations of mismanagement of funds at charities serving former and current members of the U.S. armed services, affecting service recipients, families, donors, grantors, foundations, and taxpayers. To examine these allegations, we use two...

Performance management, a management model with a long history (Van Dooren, 2008), has been used internationally to promote better government (OECD, 1996) and has been shown to be difficult to adopt (Lægreid et al., 2006) and more difficult to implement. Adoption of performance-based management...

Why do charitable nonprofit, service-providing organizations save? What are the tradeoffs between using income to build up cash reserves and serving more clients? Saving may generate income, protect the organization against a drop in donations, and increase the organization's chances of...

In 2015, the FCC issued its most sweeping order protecting net neutrality. Fast forward to today’s environment in which the FCC rolled back most net neutrality protections for consumers and producers of content on the Internet. The essence of such deregulation is that Internet service...

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen proposes “Smart Defense,” as NATO’s new approach to risk- and burden-sharing that “ensur[es] greater security, for less money, by working together with more flexibility.” As part of this approach, he promotes the pooling and sharing of...