Developing performance management in a local strategic partnership: context and issues
International Journal of Public Sector Management
ISSN: 0951-3558
Article publication date: 10 July 2009
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to cover problematic issues concerning context, culture, strategy and processes affecting the development of performance management in the City of Stoke‐on‐Trent local strategic partnership (LSP) between 2005 and 2007.
Design/methodology/approach
The author consulted LSP stakeholders and drew on selected literature on strategy and aspects of soft systems methodology (SSM).
Findings
The paper enables the appreciation of performance management as involving various strategic‐related business processes. The development of such processes, in response to central government, represented a rationalising and corporate approach to management.
Originality/value
The paper draws upon different but complementary research approaches and provided an SSM‐style conceptual model of a partnership and its focal management set within a complex context.
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Citation
Jacobs, B. (2009), "Developing performance management in a local strategic partnership: context and issues", International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 22 No. 5, pp. 432-444. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513550910972518
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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