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agenda of academics and practitioners from functions including general management, accounting, operations research, marketing …
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Organisations devote time and effort to the development of strategic performance measurement (SPM) systems. Many articles have been written on how to design and implement this type of system. However, few studies have addressed the issue of why some organisations are better able to “manage...
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The performance construct may be one of the most elusive in organization theory. Health care organizations are particularly complex owing to their dual lines of accountability, i.e. professional and administrative. This article examines the factors affecting performance indicator development and...
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Argues that effective integrated performance management (IPM) needs both strategic and maturity alignment. The … management literature focuses on strategic alignment; develops the concept of maturity alignment. Maturity alignment indicates … many performance management initiatives fail.  …
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the early work on performance measurement and management conducted in the early part of the twentieth century has been …
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Purpose – Although sales managers influence to a great extent their salespeople's outcomes, research examining the impact of leadership effectiveness and learning orientation in the sales department is limited. As such, an investigation of the impact of sales managers' learning values and...
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Complete English Tradesman should be given renewed consideration as an early predecessor to the great works in management … content typically found in modern small business management texts. Findings – The paper finds considerable overlap between … Defoe's advice and modern small business management principles. Besides the overall relevant content, the paper also finds …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the difficulty inherent in maintaining long‐term ethical behaviours in organisations. Such ethical behaviours are not always clearly identified in terms of their priorities, and interpretation methods (laws, directives, rating agencies)...
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Purpose – The paper aims to question the post‐rational observations and traditional constructions of strategy in terms of what they achieve and what they fail to achieve, and seeks to reconstruct strategy as a multi‐dimensional, dynamic concept. Design/methodology/approach – For this...
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set of capabilities: strategic agility, market agility, organization building, people management, project and process … management and knowledge management, learning and innovation. When these capabilities interact with a set of six catalyzing …
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