in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

between risk prevention and proactive value generation. Efficient risk and performance management requires adequate assessment … of risk and risk exposures on the one hand and performance on the other. Properly designed, a risk measure should provide … information on to what extend the firm's performance is at risk, what is causing that risk, the relative importance of non …

This paper investigates the effect of freight transport time savings (FTTS) on the performance of transport consuming … perspective of firms, integrating the disciplines of systems thinking, performance measurement, transport and logistics decision … making. Evidence from a Systems Dynamics' simulation experiment on a retailer suggests that the effect of FTTS on performance …

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while … ownership is strongly correlated with performance in developing countries, that ownership is not correlated with performance in …

In 1996, Becker and Gerhart noted that much of the work on human resources (HR) and performance had traditionally been … conducted at the individual level of analysis. However, in the 1990s, empirical research on HR and performance increasingly … performance at these higher levels. In the present article, I describe the empirical findings of this evolving literature …

In this article, we compare the effects of 'high performance human resource management' (HPHR) on employee and company … performance between Ireland and the Netherlands. Key hypotheses are, first, that companies using the HPHR system exhibit higher … levels of employee and company performance than companies that do not. Second, we expect that these relationships are …

We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden …