Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government A Balance
The principles of modern strategic management are illustrated by an ancient Chinese tale: a man who wanted to go south was in a carriage driving north. A passer-by asked him "If you are going to the south, why is your chariot heading north?" The man answe
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Nan Chai
Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government A Balanced Scorecard Approach Towards Sustainable Development
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Nan Chai National Audit Office of P.R. China General Office 16 Ganyangshujia Room 606, Building 5 Chaoyang District Beijing 100101 P.R. China [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-3011-5 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3012-2 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3012-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933459 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
For my son, and all children in the world
Foreword
The coming into being of this monograph could not have happened without a number of very courageous decisions under uncertainty: (a) the offer of the Government of the People’s Republic of China to Ms. CHAI Nan for a three-year grant to prepare her doctoral dissertation at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, (b) the decision of the candidate to leave a highly responsible position at the National Audit Office of China in Beijing for a three-year-period of challenging adventures including study of the German language to get along in the foreign country, (c) the decision of the potential supervisor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg to accept this candidate previously unknown to him, and (d) the common decision of the candidate and her doctoral supervisor to shift the focus of the dissertation project from general Western governmental auditing schemes to the problem of constructing and implementing new performance evaluation systems on a governmental level in order to control efforts of sustainable developments. Looking back, all these decisions paved the road to a very remarkable work, which now seeks the attention of a broader audience. Indeed, this book is worthwhile to be carefully studied, since it not only unfolds in highly general abstract, but also develops a creative and pragmatic theory, which might overcome the shortcomings of bureaucratic systems in the style of Max Weber on their way towards participative learning organizations, and therefore could play an active role in steps to sustainable development on all levels of a society. As it turned out in this case, the possible “clash of civilizations” and confrontation of different scientific schools became a very fruitful exchange of ideas and the origin of a highly innovative approach to construct a new consistent framework for the design and control of sustainable development processes on the governmental level. Dr. CHAI carefully observed and ana
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