Japanese companies value service and quality highly and they put much effort in realising this. However, survey … efforts do not result in significant performance differences compared to western companies. In this exploratory paper, we … clash of cultures underlying their operations, prohibiting them from achieving performance excellence. The causes focus …

market conditions whether this constraint is easily met or violated. Moreover, the performance of the portfolio depends on … benchmarks in order to appraise their performance. They should also be evaluated relative to the opportunity set of all … portfolios that can be formed under the same mandate – the portfolio opportunity set. The distribution of performance values …

Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental … strategy and performance. A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete planning and …

customers, and new market leaders. This paper examines the deviation among reviews of a technology’s performance and its …) from 1982 to 2007, the authors find that: (1) there exists vast deviation among reviews of technology performance leading … performance and, (4) both higher technology performance and a higher deviation affect sales positively, also when one controls for …

To fully understand the relationship between human resource management and performance in different contexts, we are in … policies in a specific company. In this way the paper broadens the present HRM and Performance debate by explicitly taking into …

innovation is more beneficial to a unit’s financial performance in more competitive environments. Through this richer …