Similar Search Results

Measuring Long Term Superior Performance: or How to Compare Apples with Oranges

Yip, George; Johnson, Gerry; Devinney, Timothy - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2008

The measurement of company performance poses several challenges. Three critical ones are: balancing short-term and long-term performance, the need to use multiple measures to capture the broad meaning of performance, and finding the right peer comparators. We argue that truly sustainable long...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862773

From Modern to Paternalistic

Edwards, Paul; Tsai, Chin-Ju; Sen Gupta, Sukanya; Ram, … - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2006

Management (HRM). An HPWS is a worksystem comprising of various employment relations practices intended to createcompetitive …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866421

Acting on Information - Performance management for the public sector

Neely, Andy D.; Micheli, Pietro; Martínez Lira, Verónica - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2006

This briefing examines how public sector organisations can use performancedata more effectively to support decision-making and produce improvements inorganisational performance. In particular it looks at the challenge of convertingperformance data into insights and then acting on those...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866443

Making Best Practice Stick - How UK firms can increase productivityby adopting leading-edge working practices

Leseure, Michel; Birdi, Kamal; Bauer, Joachim; Denyer, David - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

Quality Management (TQM)and Supply Chain Learning (SCL), they tend to do so less effectively and extensively.2The question is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866461

Learning-in-Practise:The Social Complexity of Learning in Working Life

Antonacopoulou, Elena - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2006

If learning is an integral part of living; if working life demands learning as a condition of survival; if learning is an essential human condition, why is it that we have such difficulty engaging with the phenomenon? This paper engages with this question and explores the complex...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865980

Incentives and managerial experience in multi-task teams: Evidence from within an firm

Griffith, Rachel; Neely, Andrew - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2008

This paper exploits a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the impact that a multi-dimensional group incentive scheme had on branch performance in a large distribution firm. The scheme, which is based on the Balanced Scorecard, was implemented in all branches in one division, but not in another...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862756

Evidence in Management and Organizational Science: Assembling the Fields Full Weight of Scientific Knowledge Through Syntheses

Rousseau, Denise M.; Manning, Joshua; Denyer, David - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2008

This chapter advocates the good scientific practice of systematic research syntheses in Management and Organizational …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862762

Sustainability of Business Service Outsourcing: the Case of Human Resource Outsourcing

Sako, Mari; Tierney, Abigail - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

This paper discusses the theory and evidence behind the logic of business process outsourcing, with a specific focus on human resource outsourcing (HRO). Market analysts project rapid growth in the global market for HRO, from around $30 billion in 2005 to just over $40 billion in 2008. The paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865900

Designing the Boundaries of the Firm:From “Make, Buy or Ally” to the Dynamic Benefits of Vertical Architecture

Jacobides, Michael G.; Billinger, Stephan - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

The concept of “vertical architecture” defines the scope of a firm and the extent to which it is open to final and intermediate markets. A firm can make or buy inputs, and transfer outputs downstream or sell them. Permeable vertical architectures are partly integrated and partly open to the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865948

Management fashion as proto-professionalisation: the case of Knowledge Management

Perkmann, Markus - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

The article argues that management fashions can be interpreted as processes of emerging professionalisation around … particular bodies of management expertise. By integrating insights from research on professions and professionalisation …, management fashions are analysed as attempts by specific groups within organisations to establish themselves as professionals …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865952