Performance Management in Arms Trade Offsets

My dissertation project will advance the field of Public Management by examining distinct performance management systems across a wide range of countries in an important yet hitherto understudied issue area. It investigates the question: 'How do states use performance management systems for arms trade offsets?'
For most approaches to public management reforms the question of performance is crucial. Reforms within the public sector have shifted the view of governments all over the world towards efficiency and results thereby producing a number of performance tools and techniques. Conceptual frameworks of performance management systems derive mostly from practical problems thereby treating each problem as a unique case. Therefore academic work has focused on single and comparative case studies based on a very small number of cases. In a cumulative dissertation project, I will examine different facets of how performance management systems shape the nature of arms trade offsets. I will explore the research question by first, empirically surveying and categorizing performance management systems that are used in the conduction of arms trade offsets in the member states of the European Defence Agency. Second, I will critically evaluate the performance of different performance management systems. In a third paper I will investigate why different states measure performance in the way they do.