The objective of this article is to develop a common methodological concept of creating the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and the determination of a set of key performance indicators for manufacturing type companies. Authors came up with the following conclusions. - Efficient business management...

This work shows analysis of existing methodological approaches to strategic planning and management of modern cities. The study was able to build the necessary conceptual apparatus to reveal the features of different types of urban development and to develop conceptual approaches to strategic...

In the last decade, the Government of the Russian Federation purposefully progress towards transition to the system of strategic management and translation of the budget system, all levels of government long-term planning cycle, which should increase the predictability of fiscal policy and...

Interorganizational alliances are widely recognized as critical to product innovation, particularly in high-technology markets. Many new product development (NPD) alliances tend to be asymmetric, that is, they are formed between a larger firm and a smaller firm. As is the case with alliances in...

This paper examines an economic theory of when employees become entrepreneurs. It jointly addresses the two fundamental questions of when employees generate innovations, and whether these innovations are developed as internal ventures or outside the firm. The model shows that if generating...

In a recent article, Oviatt and Bauerschmidt (1991) investigated risk-return relationship by employing the square root of the mean square error of returns as a measure of risk and found no significant relationship existed in those terms. Ruefli (1991) has suggested that under the assumption of...

This paper presents a model of the strategic process concerning entrepreneurial activity in large, complex organizations. Previous empirical and theoretical findings can be integrated in this new conceptual framework. The paper makes the following key points. First, firms need both diversity and...