TY - JOUR
AU - Brinkerhoff, D
AB -  This is a topic with a voluminous literature spanning several disciplines (e.g. Katz & Kahn 1978; Van de Ven 1976; Pennings & Goodman 1977; Kendrick 1977; Price 1968; Steers 1977) but with little agreement on basic definitions and approaches. An air of technicality surrounds it, as though the central problem were merely that of refining measures. Some leading scholars have expressed impatience with the very concept of "or­ ganizational effectiveness," urging researchers to turn their attention to more fruitful fields. But the most interesting questions in this area are not technical, they are conceptual: not how to measure effectiveness or productivity, but what to measure; how definitions and techniques are chosen and how they are linked to other aspects of an organization's structure, functioning, and environmental relations. Problems plaguing this field are not mere annoy­ ances to be brushed aside as soon as better measurement techniques are invented; instead, they are fundamental aspects of modern organizations themselves. Thus, this review of the literature on performance measure'Part of the research for this paper was supported by the Program on Non-Profit Organi­ zations, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University. John Simon provided valuable enconragement and support. 321 0360-0572/8 
TI - Organizational Performance: Recent Developments in Measurement
JF - Annual Review of Sociology
DO - 10.1146/annurev.so.07.080181.001541
DA - 1981-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/annual-reviews/organizational-performance-recent-developments-in-measurement-bBH3ORWzsp
SP - 321
EP - 349
VL - 7
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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