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Controllership in the public sector

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  • Fred Thompson
  • L. R. Jones

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Ineffective or incompetent controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy-often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control system designs depends upon the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But control strateg are seldom consciously or effectively matched to circumstances. As a consequence, public programs are too often simultaneously overcontrolled and out of control.

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  • Fred Thompson & L. R. Jones, 1986. "Controllership in the public sector," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 5(3), pages 547-571.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jpamgt:v:5:y:1986:i:3:p:547-571
    DOI: 10.1002/pam.4050050309
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    2. G. Choate & Fred Thompson, 1988. "Budget makers as agents: A preliminar investigation of discretionary behavior under state-contingent rewards," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 58(1), pages 3-20, July.
    3. Fred Thompson, 1997. "Budgeting for results: Perspectives on public expenditure management; Managerialism and the public services: Cuts or cultural change in the 1990s?; Ansätze einer wirkungsorientierten verwaltungsführun," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(1), pages 165-176.
    4. Ratna Ayu Damayanti, 2017. "Ethnographic Agency Relationship in The Context of Budget: Portrait of Local Wisdom Harmonization in Bali Pakraman Village," GATR Journals afr145, Global Academy of Training and Research (GATR) Enterprise.

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