significant statistical relationships with some performance measures (such as the return on assets and return on sales) than with … others – manufacturing matters, but not equally to all the financial and market performance; the concept of manufacturing … competence is found to be more influential in determining the business performance in the electronics sector than in the …

Purpose Over the last decade there has been considerable debate about the merits of targets as a policy instrument. The … policy between 2009 and 2012: immunisation rates for two-year-olds, and time to treatment, discharge or admission in hospital … emergency departments. Design/methodology/approach For each policy target, the authors selected four case-study districts and …

We introduce a new two-dimensional measure for the heterogeneity of performance within groups of economic units. This … measure accounts both, for the relative performance of the single units of groups and their relative size. We demonstrate that …