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UK pension fund management after Myners: the hunt for correlation begins

Blake, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

measurement in the UK. It changes the way in which assets are selected. The strategic asset allocation will have overriding …. Liability-driven performance measurement and attribution will replace the existing performance measurement framework in the UK …

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Too big to fail and too big to succeed: accounting and privatisation in the Prison Service of England and Wales

Mennicken, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper is concerned with the challenges involved in the transformation of the prison into a performance-oriented accounting entity. It examines the implication of private sector accounting and consulting expertise in redefining prison values and prison performance, and it discusses the...

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Performance of personal pension schemes in the UK

Gregory, Alan; Tonks, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper examines the performance of personal pensions (exempt unit trusts) in the UK 1980-2000. Unitised personal pension schemes are a type of mutual fund that is constituted as a contractual savings scheme, whose value can only be accessed at retirement. By studying the performance of these...

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Matchmaking: the influence of monitoring environments on the effectiveness of performance pay systems

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This study uses cross-section and panel data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to explore contextual influences on the relationship between performance-related pay (PRP) and organizational performance. While it finds strong evidence that the use of PRP can enhance performance...

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Does performance pay de-motivate, and does it matter?

French, Stephen; Kubo, Katsuyuki; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

The sheer scale and speed of the shift of payment system from time-based salaries to performancerelated pay, PRP, in the British public services provides a unique opportunity to test the effects of incentive pay schemes. This study is based on the first large scale survey designed to measure the...

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Performance persistence of pension fund managers

Tonks, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper examines persistence over time in the performance of fund managers responsible for making the investment decisions of UK pension funds. Previous work on UK pension funds found little evidence of fund manager persistence, but we argue that this may have been due to survivorship bias in...

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Evaluation logics in the third sector

Hall, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In this paper I provide a preliminary sketch of the types of logics of evaluation in the third sector. I begin by tracing the ideals that are evident in three well-articulated yet quite different third sector evaluation practices: the logical framework, most significant change stories, and...

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Do comprehensive performance measurement systems help or hinder managers' mental model development?

Hall, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

performance measurement systems (PMS) affect individual performance. Although prior studies (e.g., Hall, 2008; Burney and Widener …

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Social Capital and Public Policy in Greece.

Paraskevopoulos, Christos J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Social capital has emerged as a key concept on the social sciences in general and political science/public policy in particular over the last two decades or so, because, by facilitating collective action among the actors, it leads to increased levels of performance in several public policy areas...

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Sustainability and well-being indicators

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper provides a review and critical discussion of indicators, which attempt to combine the measurement of … (GS) have merely focused on the capacity to provide utility in the future, but have not included the measurement of … failed to account for sustainability in their measurement of current well-being. The paper then critically reviews the Index …

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