How do leaders lead for high performance in Asia, the fastest growing region in the world? What are the new leadership influential processes and skillsets needed to engage the organizational members in creative and meaningful ways? In this book, readers will find strategic insights and tips...

Agile is the new black. Every business now has to be adaptive, nimble and ready to pivot - managers have to be comfortable with ambiguity and constantly ready for change. And yet… While agility is regarded as essential for competitive advantage, most organizations are still unthinkingly...

This book provides managers, leaders and practitioners with a dynamic framework that links several variables associated with performance management which can be applied across organizations and industries worldwide. Based on empirical evidence and experiences, this book provides a critical...

This book explores how to design and implement planning & control (P&C) systems that can help organizations to manage their growth and restructuring processes in a sustainability perspective. The book is not designed to enable the reader to become an experienced system dynamics modeler; rather,...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Evolution of the Concept of ‘Management Control’: Towards a Definition of ‘Performance Management System’ -- 3. Performance Management System. A Literature Review -- 4. Innovation and the Performance Management System. Literature Review -- 5. The Loose Coupling...

Work Motivation And Job Satisfaction As Antecedents Of Research Performance: Investigation Of Different Mediation Models -- Beyond Publication Counts: The Impact Of Citations And Combined Metrics On The Performance Measurement Of German Business Researchers -- Measuring balanced effectiveness...

Bei allen langlebigen Investitionsgütern – von Maschinen und Anlagen bis zu Rüstungsgütern – stellt die Sicherstellung der Wirtschaftlichkeit in Anschaffung und Betrieb über längere Nutzungszeiten eine wesentliche Herausforderung dar. Angesichts der angespannten Finanzlage öffentlicher...

1. Performance Management: Dogma oder Einzelfallbetrachtung? -- 2. Performance Management: Anspruch und Realität zusammenführen -- 3. Project Performance Management: Rivalität zwischen Tages- und Projektgeschäft -- 4. Höchstleistung ermöglichen: Praxisbeispiel der High Professional Service...

Managing Service Productivity using Data Envelopment Analysis -- Development of Assessment Model for Research Efficiency of Universities -- Incorporating intra- and inter-input/output weight restrictions in piece-wise linear DEA: an application to the assessment of the research activity in...

This book demonstrates how an improved strategic management approach, leveraging established management concepts in conjunction with the innovative technology solutions offered by business intelligence, can lead to better performance. It presents the three main barriers to effective strategy...