MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GOVERNMENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION: THE EXAMPLE OF THE RISE AND FALL OF P.P.B.S. (PLANNING‐PROGRAMMING‐BUDGETING SYSTEM)

W. F. Dennison

Journal of Management Studies, 1979, vol. 16, issue 3, 270-282

Abstract: Explanation of the rapid rise to prominence in many government activities of the U.S.A. federal government inspired P.P.B.S. are considered. In too many situations P.P.B.S. was viewed as a revolutionary management technique and not an evolutionary development in resource allocation. The form of many of the publications by proponents of P.P.B.S. – often written from a military standpoint – were insufficiently related to the environment in which most public decision‐making occurs. As a result, by promising much and achieving little, the search for better solutions to many of the management problems that P.P.B.S. highlighted has received little help from the enormous activity generated.

Date: 1979
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