Bovaird, Tony; Halachmi, Arie - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 3 (2001) 2/3/4, pp. 119-134
The Best Value (BV) regime in UK local government became mandatory on 1 April 2000. This paper explores the international sources of the ideas behind BV. It maps out the evolution of BV from an approach primarily directed at achieving high quality local services into an approach which is...