... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Organizational performance Business improvement The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to examine the determinants of OP of business enterprises located in China. This has been undertaken first through an extant review of literature. The paper...

... Performance measurement Balanced scorecard Management techniques Business improvement In reviewing the progress of the theory of constraints (TOC), Watson et al. (2007 , p. 399) suggest that “TOC reduces the incentive to create apparent profits but does not address how to align management...

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... of the IC management, several questions remain that are more or less unexplored and deserves investigation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Intellectual capital Performance measures Business improvement This special issue of Measuring Business Excellence is devoted...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Quality management Business improvement United Kingdom Large UK manufacturing companies who experienced the Total Quality Management (TQM) explosion of the 1980s learned that changing the culture of their organisations to achieve significant...

.... Performance measures Business improvement Performance management systems Human resources management Knowledge sharing A misconception many people have is that they believe that their people are their most important asset. The most important asset of an organization is not its people, nor its...

... goals (see right‐hand arrows in Figure 3). A corresponding perspective and goal deduction method) is depicted in Figure 4 . Balanced scorecard Mission achievement Strategic management Customization Business improvement Although empirically determined implementation ratios for the use...