Il sistema informativo per la valutazione della performance dell’aggregato pubblico locale

must be measured and evaluated with a global approach, as a summary of the contributions of the subjects who operate in the territory and who have different relations with the public local administration. The information system, built on the needs of the governance of public local network, must be able to summarize and represent all the variables that affect the creation of global value and promote shared decision processes. As the information system is functional to the knowledge of the context in which it operates, the passage from a "monolithic” organization to a network makes it necessary to reconsider the traditional information systems in use. The theoretical-explorative research proposes some reflections about the effect of the new organization context on the information system with particular reference to the instruments and processes that favour the evaluation of the performance of all the subjects who co-produce value in the local context. The following is a contingent approach based on a functionalist perspective, according to which information systems are affected by the context in which they are installed. The local public administration information system has to be divided into functions, identified as a set of activities for the satisfaction of a specific need or connected needs. These are variously characterised and depend on several variables: involved partners, connection reports and information needs. Functional units, called Governance units, constitute the intermediate level of performance assessment between the organization's performance (micro level) and organizational performance (the meso level). In this sense the public administration information system must be rethought, taking into account the different performance depth levels and the specific information governance units needs. The research work, after analyzing the organizational preconditions that enable the design and operation of the information system, offers the tools systematization and integration already known to local public administrations