Special issue: "Management Devices and the Quest for Performance in the Public Sector"

International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management 2(2) 2013

• Public action: a question of performance?
• Tracing the quest for performance in Germany's public sector: institutional entrepreneurship with rhetorical strategies of persuasion
• The rationalisation process of mental health services: illustration of a conflict field between professional and management rationality
• Interpretive schemes in performance management - measurement problems generating managerial action in Finnish local government
• Positioning the performance of public service. When management tools are in conflict: the case of urban water management