Abstract
Progressing towards “Sustainable Development” as a national strategy raises important challenges to public administration and performance evaluation in government. After representing the research background, this chapter sets three problems faced by the current performance evaluation system named “strategic gaps” and then states that the study objective is to establish “Sustainability Performance Evaluation System” in government. In order to build up this new model, three methods are combined into a three-dimensional conceptual framework, and sustainability balanced scorecard is accepted as the basic tool to refine the new system and develop a set of indicators. Finally, the structure of this book will be introduced to facilitate readers to understand.
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This research is funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC), which is supported by the government of P. R. China.
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Chai, N. (2009). Introduction. In: Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3012-2_1
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