Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions - Hardcover

Link, Albert N.; Scott, John T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792383125 ISBN 13: 9780792383123

Publisher: Springer, 1998

Synopsis

Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions presents guidelines for evaluating the research performance of technology-based public institutions, and illustrates these guidelines through case studies conducted at one technology-based public institution, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The aim of this book is to demonstrate that a clear, more precise response to the question of performance accountability is possible through the systematic application of evaluation methods to document value.
The authors begin with a review of the legislative history of fiscal accountability beginning with the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, and ending with the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. A discussion of existing applicable economic models, methods, and associated metrics follows. The book concludes with evaluation case studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792383125
• ISBN 13: 9780792383123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180