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The New Era of Public Sector Management : Impact of Employee Perceptions of Managers on Managerial Effectiveness

McFayden, Elgie - 2008

Contemporary public sector managers are forced to develop a myriad of skills in order to effectively pursue and achieve organization objectives. The art of effective public sector management requires public managers to be cognizant of the cultural, social, systemic and institutional barriers...

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Cost and Time Overruns in Public Sector Projects

Morris, Sebastian - 2005

Delays and cost overruns in Public Sector investments can raise the capital-output ratio in the sector and elsewhere, bringing down the efficacy of investments. Yet there are no estimates of the delays and cost overruns, and of their opportunity cost. This study arrives at rough estimates of the...

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Voice or Public Sector Management? An Empirical Investigation of Determinants of Public Sector Performance Based on a Survey of Public Officials

Kaufmann, Daniel; Mehrez, Gil; Gurgur, Tugrul - 2002

Drawing on an in-depth governance micro-survey of public officials within a country, we address empirically the question of the relative importance of the various determinants of governance. We investigate the causes of poor governance, and show that commonly made inferences about policy based...

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Boosting Growth Through Greater Competition in Denmark

Jorgensen, Martin - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

This paper discusses ways of strengthening the competitive environment in order to help boost productivity performance in various sectors of the Danish economy. It looks at a number of indicators of the strength of competition — including price levels, industrial concentration and product...

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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Sweden

Roseveare, Deborah; Jorgensen, Martin; Goranson, Lennart - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened competition legislation and deregulated a number of sectors, including electricity, telecommunications and parts of transport, over the past 10 to 15 years. This paper examines the...

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The implementation and use of benchmarking in local government : a case study of the translation of a management accounting innovation

Siverbo, Sven - In: Financial accountability & management : in governments, … 30 (2014) 2, pp. 121-149

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Why Do Firms Use Compensation Peer Benchmarking?

Xu, Jin - 2020

benchmarking. Peer benchmarking helps a board retain a talented but risk-averse CEO, but it weakens CEO incentives to exert effort …. Consistent with high retention needs, benchmarking firms have more peer citations, operate in general business domains with more … similar firms, and their CEOs are at the most marketable age. Benchmarking firms also tend to be younger and have more …

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Asymmetric benchmarking of pay in firms

Francis, Bill; Hasan, Iftekhar; John, Kose; Sharma, Zenu - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 23 (2013) C, pp. 39-53

This paper examines whether asymmetric benchmarking of pay exists for vice presidents (VPs). Using ExecuComp data for … benchmarking of VP pay is mitigated by governance, CEO power, gender, and industry factors. The presence of asymmetric benchmarking … performance to prevent them from accessing outside opportunities. We find that unlike CEOs, asymmetric benchmarking of pay for VPs …

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Identifying critical performance indicators and suitable partners using a benchmarking template

Tee, Kong Fah - In: The international journal of productivity and … 64 (2015) 3, pp. 434-450

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The choice of peers for relative performance evaluation in executive compensation

Bizjak, John M.; Kalpathy, Swaminathan; Li, Zhichuan; … - In: Review of finance : journal of the European Finance … 26 (2022) 5, pp. 1217-1239

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