Organizational Performance and Government Resource Allocation: Panel Evidence from Washington State’s Public Programs

Park, Sungho

doi:10.1080/15309576.2022.2148260

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“…According to the literature, restrained resources can motivate local officials in two different ways regarding their use of outcome information. First, resource scarcity is a challenging issue; officials may seek more rationality to deal with such a challenge (Park, 2022). Relying more on objective information and, by doing so, connecting their perceptions closely to objective outcomes could be a way for local officials to move toward more informed decisions and management.…”

Section: Fiscal Condition As Perceived Organizational Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting the (lack of) association between objective and subjective measures of local fiscal condition

Park,

Maher,

Liao

2023

Public Budgeting & Finance

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Recent fiscal condition literature has been attentive to the consistency between subjective measures of local fiscal condition based on public officials' perceptions and their objective counterparts measured using financial data. Studies have found little evidence of a relationship between them, leading scholars to speculate flaws in measurement or intentional lack of association. This study reevaluates the issue by investigating intervening explanations for the absence of connection. Analyzing survey and audited financial data from 185 municipalities across 31 states, we identify various individual and organizational attributes that help clarify the association between the two types of fiscal condition measures.

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Section: Fiscal Condition As Perceived Organizational Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%