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Author Carton, Robert B., 1958-

Title Measuring organizational performance : metrics for entrepreneurship and strategic management research / Robert B. Carton, Charles W. Hofer
Published Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, [2006]
©2006

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Description xiv, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Performance measurement in management literature -- 3. Perspectives of organizational performance and effectiveness -- 4. Categories of performance measures -- 5. Performance measures used in research and practice -- 6. Measurement concepts and implications -- 7. Developing a generalizable model for measuring organizational financial performance -- 8. Tests of the information content of individual measures of organizational financial performance -- 9. Developing and testing an overall model of organizational financial performance -- 10. Summary, conclusions and implications for theory and practice
Summary "There is great discussion but little consensus on the best measures of organizational performance. This book redresses this imbalance. Measuring Organizational Performance offers a framework with which to better understand the implications of selecting variables for use in both empirical studies and practice where organizational financial performance is the critical issue."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 253-265
Subject Industrial productivity -- Measurement.
Author Hofer, Charles W.
LC no. 2006048330
ISBN 1845426207 (hbk.)
9781845426200 (hbk.)