Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-based Institutions (hardcover)

Link, Albert N.; Scott, John T.

ISBN 10: 0792383125 / ISBN 13: 9780792383123

Published by Springer, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-based Institutions (hardcover)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792383125
• ISBN 13: 9780792383123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.