Open AccessThe stakeholder approach to the construction of performance measures: some implications.
Author(s) -
John Crawford
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
library and information research/library and information research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2752-7336
pISSN - 1756-1086
DOI - 10.29173/lirg359
Subject(s) - stakeholder , perspective (graphical) , politics , set (abstract data type) , stakeholder theory , academic library , business , public relations , political science , sociology , library science , computer science , artificial intelligence , law , programming language
A large questionnaire survey in 1995-96 covered
ten stakeholder groups in fifteen UK higher
education libraries to examine their views on 91
library performance measures. Those considered
most important are discussed and the entire set is
listed.
Library management issues seemed much less
important to users and to academics than to library
staff. A hierarchical 'looking upwards' to groups
above was noted.
Results supported the findings of earlier
Stakeholder research overseas. lt is suggested these
results require conventional peformance measures
to be reviewed and extended. ln particular The
Effective Academic Library requires a broader
perspective. These findings in the library world have
subsequently been overtaken by a broad political
'Stakeholderism'.