The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how the boosting approach can be used to define a data-driven board balanced scorecard (BSC) with applications to S&P 500 companies. Using Adaboost, we can generate alternating decision trees (ADTs) that explain the relationship between corporate...

Companies are now operating in an intensive competitive environment and there is shortage of the information needed by most organizations.This study introduces the integration of activity-based costing system and the balanced scorecard approach in an attempt to make such information available to...

Reputational incentives may be a powerful mechanism for improving supplier performance and limiting the perverse effect of price competition on contract execution. We analyze a unique experiment run by a large utility company in Italy which introduced a new vendor rating system scoring its...