Performance in public management. A research agenda with bibliometric approach

In: ADMINISTRATIE SI MANAGEMENT PUBLIC, Band 1, Heft 35, S. 109-123

Abstract

In the current context of increasingly limited resources and of constantly multiplying and diversifying needs, the issue of performance (in any form of its manifestation) is becoming increasingly important. This desideratum is even more important in the field of public management, because this sector is a large consumer of resources, of any nature (material, financial, human and informational). The main objective of this paper is to perform a bibliometric analysis in the field of performance within the public management, based on the analysis of scientific production, in order to discover significant aspects and trends. The present research analyzes 3309 documents (articles) from the Web of Science database, using two specific analysis software (VOSViewer and CiteSpace). The conducted research identified three clusters, based on the analysis of titles, abstracts and keywords, which take into account the economic aspects of the analyzed field, concrete ways of evaluating performance in the field of public management and particularities of the public sector in general. Finally, the present paper analyzes which are the main papers in the field (based on citation burst), highlighting the trends in this scientific field in the last 20 years. The novelty of this paper is the bibliometric analysis (combined with a "text mining" approach), being the first of its kind in the field of performance for public management.