scholarly journals How Does Target-Based Performance Evaluation Affect the Accuracy of Energy-Saving Data: Evidence From China

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Zhang ◽  
Tiantian Yu ◽  
Shengfeng Lu ◽  
Ruting Huang
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Energy Intensity ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Mechanism Analysis ◽  
Appraisal System ◽  
Local Officials

Energy intensity measured by energy consumption per unit of GDP has always been the main assessment indicator for the design of energy-saving policies, but its accuracy is highly dependent on the reliability of GDP data. This paper finds that the indicator accuracy is improving after the central government has included energy intensity into the performance appraisal system for local officials. This means that the energy-saving target-based performance evaluation has restrained the data misrepresentation behavior of local officials. Further mechanism analysis shows that the pressure of energy saving restricts the development of the industrial sector, which weakens the ability of local governments to manipulate GDP data, thus improving the accuracy of energy intensity statistics. These findings provide some insightful references for China’s future green development and policy design.

scholarly journals How Promotion Incentives and Environmental Regulations Affect China’s Environmental Pollution?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2907
Author(s):  
Shiwen Liu ◽  
Zhong Zhang ◽  
Guangyao Xu ◽  
Zhen Zhang ◽  
Hongyuan Li
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Synergistic Effects ◽  
Appraisal System ◽  
Interaction Terms ◽  
Cooperation Mechanism ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
The Government

As for the academics and policymakers, more attention has been given to the issue on how to reduce environmental pollution through the cooperation of environmental regulation and local officials’ promotion incentives. With the use of a city-level panel data of 266 Chinese cities from 2005 to 2016, this study preliminary explores the impacts of environmental regulations, local officials’ promotion incentives, and their interaction terms on urban environmental pollution at national and regional levels by using the spatial Durbin model. The results indicate that the impacts of environmental regulations and local officials’ promotion incentives on urban environmental pollution have achieved the desired goal with the other’s cooperation, and their interaction term’s coefficients on urban environmental pollution are significantly negative. Moreover, spatial heterogeneity is established, and the uneven development of urban environmental pollution among different regions deserves more attention. In order to effectively reduce the level of urban environmental pollution in China, the government should focus on such solutions as enhancing the implementation and supervision efficiency of environmental regulation, optimizing the performance appraisal system of local officials, improving the synergistic effects of environmental regulations and local officials’ promotion incentives, and establishing a multi-scale spatial cooperation mechanism based on both geographical and economic correlations.

scholarly journals Does the “Miracle Drug” of Environmental Governance Really Improve Air Quality? Evidence from China’s System of Central Environmental Protection Inspections

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruxin Wu ◽  
Piao Hu
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Treatment Effect ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
The Media ◽  
Positive Effect

Central environmental protection inspections have completed their goal of full coverage of 31 provinces in China, and more than 17,000 officials have been held accountable. The media has evaluated the effectiveness of central environmental protection inspections using the notions of “instant results” and the “miracle drug of environmental governance.” Can this approach effectively promote local environmental governance? This paper takes the treatment effect of central environmental protection inspections on air pollution as an example. Using the method of regression discontinuity, central environmental protection inspections are found to have a positive effect on the air quality index (AQI), but this effect is only short term and unsustainable. Additionally, there are inter-provincial differences. Judging from the research results on sub-contaminants, the treatment effect of central environmental protection inspections on air pollution is mainly reflected in PM10, PM2.5 and CO. Under the current situation in which PM10 and PM2.5 are the main assessment indexes, this phenomenon indicates that due to the political achievements and promotion of local officials and for reasons of accountability, it is more effective for the central government to conduct specific environmental assessments through local governments than to conduct central environmental protection inspections.

Initiative Cooperation: Exploring a New Intergovernmental Model for Dealing with Risk of Tobacco Monopoly Administrative Law Enforcement

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 3003-3011
Author(s):  
Xu Jing
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Tobacco Monopoly

Objective: The risk of administrative law enforcement is slowly being exposed to the public. The law enforcement of tobacco monopoly administration plays an important role in maintaining the stability of tobacco market and promoting the benign development of tobacco industry. However, due to the combination of subjective and objective factors, there are many risks in the process of tobacco monopoly law enforcement, which seriously affect the effectiveness of tobacco monopoly law enforcement. In risk society, risk has the characteristics of fluidity and cross-region, which increases the difficulty of administrative law enforcement among local governments. The purpose of this paper is to explore a new model to deal with the risk of local government enforcement against tobacco monopoly administration. Methods: The research adopted the field survey method, 75 local officials were interviewed, including 68 effective interviews and 7 invalid interviews, then analyzed the manifestations of passive cooperation through multiple cases. Results: We found that when risk of tobacco monopoly administrative law enforcement occur frequently, local intergovernmental still choose not to cooperate or cooperate passively at the request of the central government. By analyzing the forms of passive cooperation, we established an analytical framework of initiative cooperation and worked out three elements of initiative cooperation: trust, consensus and tacit understanding. Conclusion: Initiative cooperation is the highest form of cooperation and the best choice for local intergovernmental to deal with risk of tobacco monopoly administrative law enforcement.

scholarly journals National-Local Networks and Immigration Governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-376
Author(s):  
Jill L. Tao
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
The Impact

The ability to regulate the flow of goods, capital and people across borders is one of the defining characteristics of nation-state political power. But there is not always agreement between the central government and local officials as to the desirability of immigration, where local governments may desire greater, or fewer, numbers of immigrants, depending on the local economy and labor needs. In South Korea, a unitary form of government offers an opportunity to examine the policy distance between the national government’s stance on immigration based on the politics of the ruling party, and the attitudes of local officials who work for metropolitan-level governments (those with a population of one million or more). I look at the impact of local economic market needs on local attitudes towards national immigration policy through the lens of intergovernmental relations and Lipsky’s concept of bureaucratic discretion. Comparing two cases drawn from local governments in South Korea with dissimilar economic bases but similar levels of local autonomy, I find that economic needs at the local level are addressed by local approaches to immigration policy. Contrary to expectations, the cases illustrate the relative importance of fiscal autonomy and a new understanding for political autonomy. These cases illustrate the need for caution when applying political and institutional theory within new contexts and offer new variables for future investigations of local autonomy.

scholarly journals Performance evaluation in management accounting: apliccation of process Proknow-C for knowledge generation

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Fabiana Frigo Souza ◽  
Sandra Rolim Ensslin ◽  
Valdirene Gasparetto
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Appraisal System ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The One

This research aimed to analyze the characteristics of international scientific research about the literature fragment on the use of Performance Evaluation (PE) in Management Accounting for the knowledge generation and identifying gaps and future research possibilities. To this end, this research with qualitative approach used ProKnow-C tool for selecting the Bibliographical Portfolio (PB) and analysis of the characteristics of its publications. The research resulted in sixteen articles aligned to the subject, who composed the PB and had these results: the journal Transformations in Business and Economics is the one with the highest number of publications portfolio; of the 21 authors, of the articles of the PB, the author Mostaque Md Hussain has largest number of publications, four; the contingency theory was the most used by the authors as the foundation of the Performance Evaluation and; several studies have used the Performance Evaluation path towards becoming the metrics most dynamic. Based on the literature study, the following research gaps were identified: lack of research that focus on the agency theory and the theory of stakeholders and lack of research focusing on the PE path extended to the stakeholders. To promote advances in the field, there is a need for studies that encompass the interests of stakeholders for the use of performance appraisal system, so that they are enlarged the information to be generated by this system.

scholarly journals STATEGI MENSTIMULUS EKONOMI KREATIF INDONESIA MELALUI DANA ALOKASI KHUSUS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Britany Alasen Sembiring
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Cost Index ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Creation

In the past five years, President of Indonesia has intended to improve the Indonesian economya through the creative economy sector. The creative economy is parallel with Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, where more than 90 percent Indonesian people put their livelihood. Therefore, the positive growth of the creative economy industry in Indonesia will faster stimulate local and national economic growth. Consequently, it is necessary to have the right policies, especially facilitation from the central government to local governments, which directly dealing with the Indonesian civil people. For example, through the Special Allocation Fund which properly encourage the creation of business leverage for MSMEs engaged in the creative economy industry. This study answers how central government transfer funds in the form of Special Allocation Funds can stimulate the creation of this acceleration of creative economic growth, especially in the pandemic era which bases its business on digital marketing. Using the simultaneous panel method of the local budget industrial sector (APBD sector) and central fund transfer (TKDD) for 34 provinces and other indicators such as labors, household consumption, the construction cost index, and investment in the form of PMTB from the 2014-2019 period, this study results in the significance of all these variables on the growth of the creative economic subsector. The output of this study shows that DAK has the most significant effect in increasing the economic growth of the creative economy in 34 provinces. In addition, investment and household consumption are the biggest levers in supporting the high growth of the creative economy. This is in accordance with the economic theory of the potter model and the neoclassical Solow growth model where investment and technology are important factors in the acceleration of economic growth. Given the condition of the Indonesian people, where most of which are MSMEs in the creative economy sector, investment through DAK to finance the technological transfer and research development is very significant. This was also confirmed through further research in this study in a qualitative method which conducted in-depth interviews with one of the Heads of Bakung Kidul Village, Cirebon. In the interview, there were several important inputs for the evaluation of transfer fund policies that support economic productivity in the creative economy sector, especially in the Tourism Village Area which was built 2 years ago. The results of this qualitative study were also enriched by interviews with DAK policy maker from the Directorate General Fiscal Balance, Ministry of Finance and MSME business actors who were also victims of the Covid-19 pandemic that hampered the Indonesian economy.

scholarly journals The Role of Social Media in Promoting Information Disclosure on Environmental Incidents: An Evolutionary Game Theory Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shan Gao ◽  
Shuang Ling ◽  
Wenhui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
Efficient Information

In recent years, social media has had a crucial role in promoting governments to act more responsibly. However, few studies have investigated whether social media use actually leads to increased disclosure during environmental incidents, or how social media influences regional governments’ information disclosure, even though delayed and insufficient disclosure on relevant incidents is often widespread in China. In this article, we model information disclosure during environmental incidents as an evolutionary game process between the central government and local governments, and examine the role of social media on game participants’ strategy selections in the information disclosure game. The results indicate that social media plays an active role in promoting the regional government to proactively disclose information during environmental incidents through two mechanisms: the top–down intervention mechanism, and the bottom–up reputation mechanism. More specifically, social media can provide efficient information channels for the central government to supervise local officials’ limited disclosure during environmental incidents, essentially sharing the central government’s supervision costs, and thus improving its supervision and intervention efficiency. Social media helps focus the public’s attention on the limited disclosure of local officials in environmental incidents, and actively mobilizes citizens to protest to maintain their interests, placing considerable pressure on the reputation of local governments.

Performance Management at IRD Corporation (B)

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Vishal Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Appraisal System ◽  
Performance Evaluation System ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Performance Appraisal System ◽  
Depth Study

The Performance Management at IRD Corporation case series is designed to be an in-depth study of performance appraisal in the R&D context. The case series can be used as a platform for discussing the rationale of performance appraisal system, system design and implementation, the differences between R&D and other work contexts (manufacturing, services, etc.), and the challenges involved in R&D management. This case revolves around the Chairman of IRD Corp and his dilemmas, providing an insight to the participants into the challenges of performance management and also R&D management. The series highlights the complex dilemmas associated with managing performance and the necessity of having a new performance evaluation system.

scholarly journals Between Dependency and Autonomy – Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Local Chinese Governments

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-yi Lee
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
Beijing Government ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Investment In China ◽  
Changing Process

This paper focuses on the changing interaction between Taiwanese entrepreneurs and local Chinese governments. Through the analysis of this changing process, it can be seen that Taiwanese businesses are a special “asset” of Chinese governments. The main argument of this paper is that both central and local governments in China have strategic considerations in respect of Taiwanese businesses. The Chinese central government values Taiwanese businesses because more Taiwanese investment in China strengthens the Beijing government in negotiations with the Taibei government. Nevertheless, since the Kuomintang (KMT) (Guomindang) regained power in 2008, the strategic value of Taiwanese businesses in the cross-Strait relationship seems to have decreased. The central government has created a profitable macro-environment enabling local officials to give a warm welcome to Taiwanese businesses. Chinese local governments value Taiwanese businessmen not only because of the central government's deliberate policy but also because they are pursuing their own self-interest. This paper firstly focuses on the changing interaction between Taiwanese businesses and Chinese local governments. It then further analyses the different but complementary interests of both central and local governments in China in relation to Taiwanese investors.

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