Public management scholars have made impressive strides in explaining managerial usage of performance information (PI). Does such PI use matter to performance? If so, what types of use make a difference? To answer these questions, we connect managerial self-reported behavior with objective organizational outcomes in Texas schools. We control for lagged comparative school performance and employ inverse probability weighting to mitigate endogeneity concerns. The results show that managerial use of PI is associated with objective indicators of performance, and that the type of use matters. In particular, school principals’ use of PI for strategic planning is positively associated with better high-stake test scores. The findings suggest that maturity of performance management system can shape the relationship between managerial PI use and organizational performance, thereby contributing to a contingency-based understanding of the relationship between performance management and organizational performance.

公共管理学者在解释绩效信息 (PI) 的管理用途方面取得了令人瞩目的进展。这样的 PI 使用对性能有影响吗？如果是这样，哪些类型的使用会有所不同？为了回答这些问题，我们将德克萨斯学校的管理自我报告行为与客观的组织成果联系起来。我们控制滞后的比较学校表现，并采用逆概率加权来减轻内生性问题。结果表明，PI 的管理使用与绩效的客观指标相关，并且使用的类型很重要。特别是，校长使用 PI 进行战略规划与更高的高风险考试成绩呈正相关。