Measuring organizational performance metrics for entrepreneurship and strategic management research

1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Performance measurement in management literature -- 3. Perspectives of organizational performance and effectiveness -- 4. Categories of performance measures -- 5. Performance measures used in research and practice -- 6. Measurement concepts and implications -- 7. D...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carton, Robert B.
Other Authors: Hofer, Charles W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K Edward Elgar c2006
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Performance measurement in management literature -- 3. Perspectives of organizational performance and effectiveness -- 4. Categories of performance measures -- 5. Performance measures used in research and practice -- 6. Measurement concepts and implications -- 7. Developing a generalizable model for measuring organizational financial performance -- 8. Tests of the information content of individual measures of organizational financial performance -- 9. Developing and testing an overall model of organizational financial performance -- 10. Summary, conclusions and implications for theory and practice
There is great discussion but little consensus on the best measures of organizational performance. This book redresses this imbalance. Measuring Organizational Performance offers a framework with which to better understand the implications of selecting variables for use in both empirical studies and practice where organizational financial performance is the critical issue
Physical Description:xiv, 276 p ill
ISBN:9781847206220
9781847202840
1845426207
9781845426200