caa a22 4500 606222928 CHVBK 20210128101136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11115-013-0247-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11115-013-0247-6 Reichborn-Kjennerud Kristin The University of Bergen, Postboks 7800, 5020, Bergen, Norway aut Resistance to Control—Norwegian Ministries' and Agencies' Reactions to Performance Audit [Elektronische Daten] [Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud] Ministries are increasingly subject to control, primarily by State Audit Institutions'. This control is assumed to contribute to improvement. Based on survey data from 353 civil servants in Norway this article analyses the ministries' and agencies' responses to the SAIs control. The analysis shows that civil servants in the ministries tend to be less positive to performance audit than civil servants in the agencies. Top executives, irrespective of administrative level, were more negative than middle managers and other public employees. In addition civil servants more exposed to performance audit were, in general, more negative towards it. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Agencies nationallicence Ministries nationallicence Performance audit nationallicence State Audit Institution nationallicence New Public Management nationallicence Control nationallicence Accountability nationallicence Public Organization Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 15/1(2015-03-01), 17-32 1566-7170 15:1<17 2015 15 11115 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-013-0247-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-013-0247-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Reichborn-Kjennerud Kristin The University of Bergen, Postboks 7800, 5020, Bergen, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Organization Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 15/1(2015-03-01), 17-32 1566-7170 15:1<17 2015 15 11115