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Purpose – As a result of the many governance failures in the past decade, new legislation, increased regulation, and best practices have been adopted by boards in an effort to improve corporate governance. Unfortunately, not all of the changes, such as increasing the number of external...
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measuring performance improvement in delivering value to all stakeholders, not only can companies become more inclusive, they …
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We explore the effects of three categories of fit on US‐China joint‐venture performance using four performance measures …. Many studies prescribe strong fit across multiple categories as necessary for high performance, but little rigorous … JV performance. Objective congruence (strategic fit) among JV partner‐firms, impacts two performance‐measures. Efficacy …
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This study aims to explore the performance measurement of Sino‐Japanese joint ventures (JVs) by linking the … and JV general managers evaluate JV performance using four approaches (i.e., economic, strategic, behavioral, and … different between the Japanese parent firms and JV general managers; (4) National culture has influence on JV performance.  …
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machine intelligence. One of the possible approaches to evaluating machine intelligence is task‐based performance testing … arenas for evaluating the performance of autonomous mobile robots performing urban search and rescue tasks. Robots must … this paper, we describe our approach toward developing performance metrics for autonomous mobile robots through …
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This paper addresses the effects of a set of variables on sales performance of home‐based business in Dubai. The … significant relationship with homebased business performance. Of particular importance is the lack of significant effects for … gender. This indicates that business performance is not tied up to gender. Both men and women could do equally well in the …
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mechanisms on the UAE firm performance (i.e., Tobin’s q). Like many of the developing countries all over the world, the UAE has … debt ratio (total debt/total assets), and the payout dividends ratio have a significant impact on the firm performance … enough to affect the firm performance. However, the other four mechanisms are found to have a weak effect on the firm …
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processes, under the generic term performance budgeting (PB). The US federal experience of PB is outlined; it being the … of Andhra Pradesh. The result is to advocate four basic pre‐conditions as the cornerstones of performance budgeting.  …
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organization performance. This research uses data from the Arizona Governor’s Quality Award, which is based on the MBNQA, to study …
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This empirical study investigates productivity performance of Canadian (n = 43) and US (n = 95) manufacturers in the … improved performance on various productivity measures. Statistically significant differences exist between the two countries on …
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