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Do comprehensive performance measurement systems help or hinder managers' mental model development?
Hall, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
managerial performance. Results show that a more comprehensive PMS helps managers to confirm their mental models of business unit … operations. In contrast, findings show that a more comprehensive PMS can help managers to build new mental models of business … unit operations, but only in specific settings, that is, for managers with a short organizational tenure and/or from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126738
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Between Enlargement-led Europeanisation and Balkan Exceptionalism: an appraisal of Bulgaria’s and Romania’s entry into the European Union
Papadimitriou, Dimitris; Gateva, Eli - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
The accession of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union (EU) in 2007 offers significant theoretical and empirical …’s and Romania’s trajectory towards EU membership is the evolutionary and contested nature of EU conditionality as well as … the considerable EU discretion in the manner of its implementation. In that sense Bulgaria and Romania, as ‘outliers’ of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016300
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UK pension fund management after Myners: the hunt for correlation begins
Blake, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
The Myners Report will have a number of significant consequences for pension fund management and performance measurement in the UK. It changes the way in which assets are selected. The strategic asset allocation will have overriding importance in pension fund management. Asset classes will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884752
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Too big to fail and too big to succeed: accounting and privatisation in the Prison Service of England and Wales
Mennicken, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
shows how the reforms promoted a systemic decentring of Prison Service accountability. Prison managers and regulators came …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744984
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Performance of personal pension schemes in the UK
Gregory, Alan; Tonks, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper examines the performance of personal pensions (exempt unit trusts) in the UK 1980-2000. Unitised personal pension schemes are a type of mutual fund that is constituted as a contractual savings scheme, whose value can only be accessed at retirement. By studying the performance of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745854
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Matchmaking: the influence of monitoring environments on the effectiveness of performance pay systems
Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
structure of workplace monitoring environments. In addition, it presents evidence that managers learn about optimum combinations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746416
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Does performance pay de-motivate, and does it matter?
French, Stephen; Kubo, Katsuyuki; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
The sheer scale and speed of the shift of payment system from time-based salaries to performancerelated pay, PRP, in the British public services provides a unique opportunity to test the effects of incentive pay schemes. This study is based on the first large scale survey designed to measure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746440
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Performance persistence of pension fund managers
Tonks, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper examines persistence over time in the performance of fund managers responsible for making the investment … strong evidence of persistence in abnormal returns generated by fund managers over one year time horizons. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746505
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Evaluation logics in the third sector
Hall, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In this paper I provide a preliminary sketch of the types of logics of evaluation in the third sector. I begin by tracing the ideals that are evident in three well-articulated yet quite different third sector evaluation practices: the logical framework, most significant change stories, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126472
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Trade unions and the politics of the European social model
Hyman, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
inherent in a neoliberal approach to economic integration, the dominant logic of ‘competitiveness’, and the pressures for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884549