The Sustainability Assumption in Performance Management Reforms: Revisiting the Patterns of Implementation

Antoine Genest-Grégoire (), Étienne Charbonneau () and Daniel E. Bromberg ()
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Antoine Genest-Grégoire: Université de Sherbrooke
Étienne Charbonneau: École nationale d’administration publique
Daniel E. Bromberg: University of New Hampshire

Public Organization Review, 2018, vol. 18, issue 4, No 6, 525-542

Abstract: Abstract The sustainability assumption -that once a department, ministry or agency adopts performance measurement tools, it will stay that way- undermines the analyses of performance reforms and performance management practices. The results from analyzing longitudinal descriptive evidence from a unique dataset in a Canadian province are that the implementation and the stability of performance tools uses within ministries and agencies contradicts the sustainability assumption. Mazmanian and Sabatier’s (1989; 1980) cumulative incrementalism scenario is not observed; there is much volatility in performance management from former adopters. Performance management might be much more volatile than practitioners and academics realize.

Keywords: Performance management; Performance reform; Policy implementation; Canada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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