@article{,
    author = {Lindermüller, David; Sohn, Matthias; Hirsch, Bernhard},
    title = {Negative media reporting and its effects on performance information use in public spending},
    editor = {},
    booktitle = {},
    series = {},
    journal = {Public Management Review},
    address = {},
    publisher = {},
    edition = {},
    year = {2022},
    isbn = {},
    volume = {24},
    number =  {1},
    pages = {},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1882543},
    doi = {10.1080/14719037.2021.1882543},
    keywords = {},
    abstract = {Translating performance information about public services into spending allocations is difficult. Drawing on blame-avoidance theory, we propose that negative media reporting affects the rationale for spending public resources for public services. A process tracing laboratory experiment shows that negative media reporting increases the willingness to spend more money for public services, particularly on a relatively low-performing public service. Furthermore, we find that negative media reporting shifts participants’ attention in the predecisional information search process towards performance information on the relatively low-performing public service. The paper helps explain decision makers’ use and interpretation of performance information in spending allocations.},
    note = {},
    institution = {Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften, WOW 1 - Institut für Controlling, Finanz- und Risikomanagement, Professur: Hirsch, Bernhard},
    
    
}