BERNARD, Alain <br/><br/>
Les moyens économiques d'évaluation de l'efficacité des entreprises publique 

 - Paris :  IIAP,  oct./déc. 1981 
<br/><br/> What methods and/or tools are used for performance assessment of administration regarding their economic choices and the results of public enterprise? Public corporations have specific tools, such as accountancy, order development indicators, investment decision models, for which a fast expansion has been observed over the past twenty years and which greatly facilitate information of public authorities. It is however absolutely necessary for government to call upon their own yardsticks to evaluate the decisions of public enterprise in order to ensure agreement with the general economic goals and to appraise the results obtained.  After an overview of the economic trend and the role of public enterprise since the end of the war, the author shows how the available yardsticks have evolved in line with the economic and institutional context