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MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GOVERNMENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION: THE EXAMPLE OF THE RISE AND FALL OF P.P.B.S. (PLANNING‐PROGRAMMING‐BUDGETING SYSTEM)
Author(s) -
Dennison W. F.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1979.tb00387.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , resource allocation , resource management (computing) , business , economics , public administration , political science , operations research , public economics , computer science , management , engineering , computer network , philosophy , linguistics
Abstract E xplanation of the rapid rise to prominence in many government activities of the U.S.A. federal government inspired P.P.B.S. are considered. In too many situations P.P.B.S. was viewed as a revolutionary management technique and not an evolutionary development in resource allocation. The form of many of the publications by proponents of P.P.B.S. – often written from a military standpoint – were insufficiently related to the environment in which most public decision‐making occurs. As a result, by promising much and achieving little, the search for better solutions to many of the management problems that P.P.B.S. highlighted has received little help from the enormous activity generated.