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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"financial measures"”.
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Follow the Money: Targeted Financial Measures to Counter Nuclear Proliferation
… the development and implementation of targeted financial measures to counter the illicit use of the international financial system by nations pursuing a nuclear weapon. Targeted financial measures have been used effectively to disrupt the financing of terrorist organizations and the United …
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Team performance: Using financial measures to evaluate the effect of support systems on team performance.
… maximize team effectiveness and still ensure a financial return for company investors. This study has three objectives. The first objective is to investigate whether there is a positive relationship among organizational environment, team potency (the team's collective belief it will succeed) and …
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The Impact of the Choice of Performance Evaluation System on the Magnitude of the Outcome Effect
… In a formula-based evaluation system, outcome measures are pre-weighted and an overall variance measure is easily calculated. Conversely, there are no predefined weights or overall variance measures in a subjective system. Instead, evaluators weight the importance of outcome information …
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An Examination of Organizatinal Performance Measurement System Utilization
… selected by the organization. Bottom-line financial measures like return on invested capital and net profit, while perceived as more important than their nonfinancial counterparts, were not part of the extracted components suggesting that they were viewed as outcomes to be achieved by …
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Multiple performance measurement and management systems in Australian business organisations
… and management systems (PMMS) including both financial and non-financial measures. Despite the literature advocating the benefits of PMMS, the empirical work is insufficient, and the synthesis of the findings is minimal. Based on the findings of prior case studies, survey research, and the …
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Pursuing shareholder value : comparing the information content of EVA and accounting earnings
… between changes in shareholder value and various financial measures of corporate performance. The objective is to assess whether adopting the goal of maximising EV A, instead of accounting earnings, enables management to more effectively pursue shareholder value. Firstly, the ability of EVA and …
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Market orientation on trust and performance in London's ethnic minority micro businesses
… and performance was better when using non-financial measures than when financial measures were used. In terms of the relationship between market orientation, trust and performance, there was a stronger relationship between trust and performance than between market orientation and …
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A human rights analysis of housing informality in Namibia: Challenges, ambitions, and misses
… to assess the legislative, administrative, and financial measures taken by the Namibian Government to address the proliferation of informal settlements in the country as per the dictates of international human rights law. It did this by applying the OPERA framework of triangulation of outcomes, …
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Preferences For Performance Measures: A Study Of A Federal Agency
… showed that managers preferred public good measures and clients preferred financial measures. Both groups' second preferred index of measures was internal management process measures. This research is important in policy formulation and provides many implications regarding the effective …
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Measuring and managing intellectual capital in the U.S. aerospace industry
… clients. Previous research has emphasized the financial measurement of intellectual capital, including the valuation of corporate intangible assets and the difference between a firm's market value and book value. Unfortunately, these financial measures are not very useful to practitioners, as …
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The Use & Consequences of Performance Management & Control Systems : A Study of a Professional Services Firm.
… the traditional PMCS with a wider range of non-financial or operational measures. This study investigates the way a PMCS, encompassing both financial and non-financial measures, is used and the effect on work behaviour and performance. It examines the possible influence of hierarchical levels on …
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A multivariate model of integrated branch performance and potential focusing on personal banking
… analysis are dominated by accounting and financial measures that inherently generate information of a retrospective nature. The outcomes are a possible misleading assessment of a branch's economic viability and misguided planning decisions in reconfiguring a branch. ... This study develops …
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Evaluating relative productivity and efficiency of hospitality properties using data envelopment analysis
… in an ever-changing business environment. Purely financial measures of evaluating hospitality efficiency and productivity are not sufficient in the long-term. This study makes an attempt to evaluate the productivity and efficiency of hospitality operations using a nonparametric technique called …
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The role of Six Sigma in improving financial performance
… firms listed in the United States and their financial results for a four year period from 2004 to 2007, compared to 43 homogenous firms that formed a control group. The results for five operational and five financial measures were tested using analysis of covariance to see whether, given …
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The effect of fairness perception of performance measurement in the balanced scorecard environment
… a more causal-linked comprehensive set of financial and non-financial measures of performance. However, recent research suggests the use of the BSC has its own difficulties including one referred to as common-measure bias (Lipe and Salterio, 2000); accordingly the benefits of the BSC cannot …
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Measuring Family Business Performance: A Holistic, Idiosyncratic Approach
… in their own ways, which may go well beyond financial outcomes. Despite notable recent advances, especially on conceptual grounds, current approaches to measuring performance in family business are limited by a focus solely on financial measures, and current approaches fail to acknowledge …
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The 50th Anniversary of REITs: a Triple Case Study With Financial Analysis
… through 2010, utilizing data from Compustat, SNL Financial, and hand-collected data. In addition, ANOVA testing was performed to identify significant differences in the ratios for the three specific companies and all the other companies in the industry. Qualitative analysis was performed through …
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Leveraging global operations innovation to create sustainable competitive advantage
… Current literature offers insight into improved financial measures that traditional mass producing firms can employ to streamline decision making and shift the mindset of leaders to engage employees, suppliers, and customers around a long-term systems based operating strategy. The thesis is based …
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Accounting for performance: Case studies of relative performance evaluation in Egypt and England.
… the impacts of difficulty of peer group, non financial measures, market measures and varying the form of the rewards on RPE. Case study approach was adopted to examine the research arguments. Data were collected from three companies in Egypt and one company in England. Access was partially …
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Conceptual framework for the sustainable benefit evaluation of UK social housing projects
… this field has been dominated by the: financial measures of success rather than the wider benefits to the community. However, this study proposes a new approach that is grounded in, the theory of sustainability, within which investments are appraised not only on their financial merits …
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