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Both practitioners and research scientists have noted a number of problems regarding measurement activities during the … past decade. The problems reported suggest that measurement activities are fragmented both within and across organizations …
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Purpose The purpose of this note is to expose accounting students and others to recent findings in management control, specifically to the relationship between the informativeness of a performance measure and its usefulness in performance evaluation. Design/methodology/approach Numerical...
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A case study is described in which an audit programme was developed as a measure of health and safety performance. The audit programme was implemented as a safety competition in a UK water utility over a period of three years with the results also used for benchmarking the company’s health and...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to benchmark the assessment approaches of agility in a manufacturing organization. Design/methodology/approach – The criteria for agility assessment were identified comprehensively based on literature review. The agility assessment was done using Multi...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a study that is focused on application of fuzzy logic and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) approaches for leanness evaluation in an Indian small- and medium-size enterprise (SME). Design/methodology/approach Lean manufacturing concepts...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to seek to develop environmental scores to complement already existing academic scores in order to evaluate and compare school performance in the context of sustainable societies. Design/methodology/approach In a case study on one particular Brazilian school,...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a supplier risk framework. The framework provides the information about the risk level in which a supplier is classified. This study is part of the company’s one- department-one-improvement policy. This policy encourages all departments to...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe benchmarking to evaluate the product development process (PDP) from a lean perspective. Design/methodology/approach – The work was conducted by means of case studies at large companies in Brazil that develop products, based on a gap in the...
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Discusses the concept of business process management as an approach which relies on cross‐functional contributions to organizational performance. Presents arguments on the importance of “hard” and “soft” elements which are all required for determining effective competitiveness. A...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate and evaluate the new performance measurement model for the Thai … frozen shrimp chain. Design/methodology/approach – The performance measurement model was developed by the combination method … acceptable on the basis of performance measurement foundations. Furthermore, the financial and the customer perspectives are …
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