Performance measurement and adoption of balanced scorecards Journal Articles

abstract

• To deal with financial constraints and increasing demand on accountability, government administrators have begun implementing modern management tools in their organizations. The balanced scorecard, a performance and strategic management system, has been adopted in for‐profit organizations with success and its application in the government sector is explored in this study. Results of a survey of municipal governments in the USA and Canada show that there is limited use of the balanced scorecard. Most municipal governments, however, have developed measures to assess their organizations' financial, customer satisfaction, operating efficiency, innovation and change, and employee performance. Respondent administrators, in general, have confidence in the quality of the performance measures and about half reported that these measures were used to support various management functions. The respondent administrators also have a good understanding of the balanced scorecard and the implementers are positive about their experience.

authors

• Chan, Yee-ching Lilian
• Lilian Chan, Yee‐Ching

status

• published 

publication date

• May 1, 2004

has subject area

• 1501 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability (FoR)
• 1503 Business and Management (FoR)
• 1605 Policy and Administration (FoR)
• Political Science & Public Administration (Science Metrix)

published in

• International Journal of Public Sector Management  Journal

keywords

• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
• 3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour
• 44 Human Society
• 4407 Policy and Administration

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1108/09513550410530144

start page

• 204

end page

• 221

volume

• 17

issue

• 3