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Bounded rationality, blame avoidance, and political accountability: how performance information influences management quality

Sounman Hong, Sun Hyoung Kim, Jieun Son

Public Management Review

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Negative media reporting and its effects on performance information use in public spending David Lindermüller, Matthias Sohn, Bernhard Hirsch · 2021
Search in Response to Negative Performance Feedback: Problem-Definition and Solution-Generation Joris van der Voet · 2022
Manager and employee behaviors in response to performance signals in public organizations Taek Kyu Kim · 2023
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition Sounman Hong et al. · 2024
Hidden Costs of Performance Management: When Performance Feedback Encourages Gaming and Dysfunctional Behaviors Suho Ji, Sounman Hong · 2025
‘Profiting from at least one side’: goal conflict, performance feedback, and data manipulation Chengwei Wang, Liang Ma · 2025
When goals waltz together: how (in)consistent performance feedback on multiple complementary goals affects performance improvements in the public sector Shaowei Chen et al. · 2025
Alleviating or aggravating? How patronage ties moderate the impacts of performance feedback on data manipulation in public performance management Shaowei Chen · 2026

References 8

LEARNING FROM PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION, ASPIRATION LEVELS, AND MANAGERIAL PRIORITIES Poul Aaes Nielsen · 2013
Performance Gaps and Managerial Decisions: A Bayesian Decision Theory of Managerial Action Kenneth J. Meier, Nathan Favero, Ling Zhu · 2015
A Behavioral Model of Innovative Search: Evidence from Public Hospital Services Torsten Oliver Salge · 2010
PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK, GOVERNMENT GOAL‐SETTING AND ASPIRATION LEVEL ADAPTATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE PROVINCES Liang Ma · 2015
Self-Assessment, Self-Enhancement, and the Choice of Comparison Organizations for Evaluating Organizational Performance Pino G. Audia, Sébastien Brion, Henrich R. Greve · 2015
A Behavioral Model of Public Organizations: Bounded Rationality, Performance Feedback, and Negativity Bias Sounman Hong · 2018
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve · 2003
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm Richard H. Day et al. · 1964

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A Behavioral Model of Public Organizations: Bounded Rationality, Performance Feedback, and Negativity Bias Sounman Hong · 2018

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Manager and employee behaviors in response to performance signals in public organizations Taek Kyu Kim · 2023

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Double standards? How historical and political aspiration levels guide managerial performance information use Jakob Majlund Holm · 2017

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Performance and Management in the Public Sector: Testing a Model of Relative Risk Aversion Sean Nicholson‐Crotty, Jill Nicholson‐Crotty, Sergio Fernández · 2016

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Hidden Costs of Performance Management: When Performance Feedback Encourages Gaming and Dysfunctional Behaviors Suho Ji, Sounman Hong · 2025

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The Effects of Managers’ Purposeful Performance Information Use on American Hospital Performance Taehee Kim, Morgen Johansen, Ling Zhu · 2020

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Negative media reporting and its effects on performance information use in public spending David Lindermüller, Matthias Sohn, Bernhard Hirsch · 2021

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Searching near and far? Search distance and performance below historical and social aspirations Catarina Antunes Mantas, Joris van der Voet, Amandine Lerusse · 2026

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LEARNING FROM PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION, ASPIRATION LEVELS, AND MANAGERIAL PRIORITIES Poul Aaes Nielsen · 2013

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Understanding diverse types of performance information use: evidence from an institutional isomorphism perspective Yujin Choi, Harin Woo · 2022

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Alleviating or aggravating? How patronage ties moderate the impacts of performance feedback on data manipulation in public performance management Shaowei Chen · 2026

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Women hold up the shattering sky? Performance feedback on multiple conflicting goals and women’s representation in top management teams in the public sector Ting Huang · 2024

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Contradictory yet Coherent? Inconsistency in Performance Feedback and R&D Investment Change Gerardus J. M. Lucas, Joris Knoben, Marius T.H. Meeus · 2015

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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm William J. Baumöl, Richard M. Cyert, J. G. March · 1964

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