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I study the implications of economic shocks for objective and subjective CEO performance evaluation. A shock perturbs pay-setting parties' information about the firm and the CEO. I argue that pay-setting parties then lack information they... more
Congestion causes delays and environmental impacts. Policy makers and transport planners have used congestion indicators for monitoring traffic conditions in urban areas. These indicators require defining a reference level of congestion... more
Purpose: As sport gradually becomes a full-scale business, a debate about the applicability and appropriateness of measures of performance has emerged. This research aims to analyse how the special features of sport businesses influence... more
Purpose -The New Zealand Benchmarking Club (NZBC), a multi-organisational network, aimed to improve the performance of member organisations through best practice benchmarking. The purpose of this paper is to critique the NZBC... more
The purpose of this article is to present and discuss alternative arguments and directions for the study of performance measurement. We classify and discuss performance measurement in three phases: the design and structure of the... more
This Impact Report identifies and summarises the diverse impacts, resulting from the £500m of UK funding of Science and Technology in 2013, using numerous quantitative metrics and short case study extracts. It shows how the varied... more
As a response to the financial crisis of 2007-2008, financial service industry regulators have commonly requested financial service industry to implement fund transfer pricing (FTP) mechanisms. Despite the importance of the topic as... more
Purpose – This paper examines how the management control practices of organization members enables the alignment of product development projects with potentially conflicting corporate strategies during the product development process.... more
Purpose-This study provides a systematic review on performance measurement of supply chains from a financial perspective. Design/methodology/approach-This study systematically reviews the financial performance measures of supply chains.... more
Streszczenie: Zrównoważona Karta Wyników (ZKW) jest rekomendowana jako uniwer-salne narzędzie strategicznego zarządzania organizacjami ery informacyjnej. Prowadzone do tej pory badania nie rozstrzygnęły przyczyn porażek w użytkowaniu ZKW.... more
Supply chain management creates value for companies, customers and stakeholders interacting throughout a supply chain. The strategic dimension of supply chains makes it paramount that their performances are measured. In today’s... more
MultiCraft International Journal of Business, Management and Social Sciences Vol. 2, No. 4, 2011, pp. 19-34 ... INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES www.ijbmss-ng.com © 2011 MultiCraft Limited. All rights... more
This research, conducted by the author when a Senior Researcher at Newcastle University, UK, was funded by a UK governance organisation to help them assess, integrate and improve their understanding of the governed population.... more
With the main objective of reducing disease burden and household’s out-of-pocket expenses for the shortlisted African countries of Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe, the... more
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on maintenance management and suggest possible gaps from the point of view of researchers and practitioners. Design/methodology/approach -The paper systematically categorizes... more
In modern science, we usually associate value with a numerical determination – such as, for instance, the value of the Planck constant. However, once we examine value as a co-original facet of measure, we are led to distinguish – with... more
Project monitoring and control process is an important process in developing any computer information system. Monitoring and Control provides an understanding of the project’s progress so that when the project deviates significantly from... more
The term “performance” originates from old French parfornir, which means “to do, carry out, complete, accomplish.” A comparative performance system (CPS) is a set of elements and processes to assess the capability of individuals,... more
For the past decade innovativeness, as opposed to innovation, has received considerable attention in the academic literature as well as the corporate arena because it is considered to promote a competitive advantage. This study examines... more
The application of data mining techniques in intrusion detection has attracted considerable attention from the research community. Ensemble learning can be used as an effective classification technique for intrusion detection. In an... more
The present study aimed to explore the structure of spiritual well-being of Filipino and Vietnamese youths. The data were collected using SHALOM, known as the Spiritual Health and Life- Orientation Measure, and analyzed using Exploratory... more
Several authors of late have contributed significantly towards developing mathematical models for selecting the best possible team from a host of players in different team sports, including cricket. The performance of cricketers on the... more
Why do some public employees manipulate their behavior or engage in gaming in response to their organization's performance management system? Do they game performance management solely to serve their own interest? Or is it much more... more
Bruwer, J-P. 2010. Sustainability of South African FMCG SMME retail businesses in the Cape Peninsula. Dissertation submitted in complete fulfilment of a MTech: Internal Auditing. Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The concept of... more
Objective – Health assessment on microfinance institutions was conducted through non-financial measurements consisted of assessment on general and risk managements. The assessment was commonly used to assess commercial banks. Microfinance... more
Purpose – Performance measurement systems (PMSs) are at the heart of most organisations. The objective of this study is to examine the attitudes of top-level managers towards the incompleteness of PMSs. Design/methodology/approach – This... more
One of the more interesting issues in the strategic management field is the question of whether intra-industry performance differences exist, particularly across strategic groups. Most of the existing studies have used accounting measures... more
In the last decades, a large number of metrics has been proposed to compare the performance of different evolutionary approaches in multi-objective optimization. This situation leads to difficulties when comparisons among the output of... more
Fuzziness is a sort of recent incoherence. Fuzzy set theory is asserted to depict vagueness. This study explores the queuing model of priority classes adopting pentagon fuzzy number with the inclusions of fuzzy set operations. A... more
The article links the linear measures used in ancient Russian churches with the previously identified geometric principles inherent for their proportions and closely connected with the philosophical understanding of the world order by... more
In order to remain competitive in this borderless world all the financial services providers have to re evaluate their traditional methods of attracting and keeping customers. To be successful in the insurance industry the advisors have... more
A significant number of empirical studies have reported contrasting results regarding the effects of certain internal organizational factors (Leadership Style-Team competency and Skills-Effective Communication) on construction... more
As multisensory data is made available in many areas such as remote sensing, medical imaging, etc, the sensor fusion has become a new field for research. Multisensor image fusion mainly focuses on combining spatial information of a high... more
Previous studies have documented that Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) could be a good tool to evaluate fund performance, especially the performance of hedge funds as it can incorporate multiple risk-return attributes characterizing hedge... more
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This paper aims to analyse the dependencies between supply chain performance, i.e. stock and stock-outs, and both supply chain management decisions and supply chain configuration parameters, i.e. the number of sources, the inventory... more
The present paper makes a significant effort to introduce and eventually build the appropriate Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for the specific Gas Company of Greece. As the latter is a complex organisation several management tools are... more
If we conducted a competition for which statistical quantity would be the most valuable in exploratory data analysis, the winner would most likely be the correlation coefficient with a significant difference from its first competitor. In... more
As the Nigerian construction customers become more sophisticated, it is now very important that firms within the construction industry determine the factors that are important and relevant to the customers ’ firm choice decisions.... more
Overall changes in productivity during a pandemic can conceal differing short and longer-term impacts and depend upon how these affect disproportionately either higher or lower productivity activities. Assessments of productivity can... more