Developing performance measurement research that matters: strategies for practice and policy impact

David Brown, Celina McEwen, Rachael Lewis and Nicole Sutton

Chapter 16 in Research Handbook on Performance Measurement for Management Control, 2024, pp 302-319 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Performance measurement (PM) research is well placed to help society tackle global and national challenges and their local manifestations. The ubiquitousness of PM systems and their use for decision making, management control, and coordination means that PM researchers have an opportunity to conduct research with practice and policy impact. In this chapter, we discuss how to design and deliver PM research with increased potential for positive economic, social, and environmental practice and policy impact. We explore what impact looks like and the challenges and factors that prevent impact. We outline a range of strategies that can be adopted to increase relevance for and engagement with non-academics. We argue that while impact can happen as an accidental flow-on effect of research, it is possible to adopt a more purposeful approach where opportunities for the uptake of findings by industry, government, and end users are considered from the start of projects.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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