A critique of the research study in the attached article “Implementing Performance Measurement Systems in Local Governments: Moving from the “How” to the “Why”:
• Evaluate the research questions and hypotheses.
The Research Questions and Hypotheses Checklist serves as a guide for your evaluation. Please do not respond to the checklist in a Yes/No format in writing your Discussion post.
• Identify the type of qualitative research approach used in the article and explain how the researchers implemented the design.
• Analyze alignment among the theoretical or conceptual framework, problem, purpose, research questions, and design.
Be sure to support the essay with reference to the attached Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.
Resources:
Babbie, E. (2017). Basics of social research (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
• Chapter 10, “Qualitative Field Research”
Burkholder, G. J., Cox, K. A., Crawford, L. M., & Hitchcock, J.H. (Eds.) (2020). Research design and methods: An applied guide for the scholar-practitioner. SAGE Publications, Inc.
• Chapter 6, “Qualitative Research Designs”
Agasisti, T., Agostino, D., & Soncin, M. (2020). Implementing performance measurement systems in local governments: Moving from the “how” to the “why”. Public Performance & Management Review, 43(5), 1100-1128. https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2019.1700806
