This paper sets out a logical and inclusive approach to measuring purpose. We advocate a three-stage process, the first of which anchors the purpose, mission and vision of the organisation in its governance. The second stage identifies the business metrics that derive from purpose in relation to...

This paper studies the persistence of mutual fund performance. Academic research often focuses on fund returns. This study intends to examine the performance of selected Large cap and Mid cap mutual fund schemes of Indian Mutual fund industry during the study period 2007 to 2011. The performance...

This paper seeks to further the understanding of US university endowment performance building on recent research by both Hammond and Ennis. The paper finds that a Sharpe style analysis, as employed by Ennis, likely understates the true risk of endowments and therefore overstates alpha. This is...

This paper analyses the performance of maturity transformation strategies during a period of high and low interest rates. Based on German government bond yields from September 1972 to May 2019,we construct a rolling window of bond ladders where long-term assets are financed by short-term...

This paper studies how pay transparency affects organizations that reward employees based on their efforts (i.e., using “subjective performance evaluation”). First, we show that transparency triggers social comparisons that require the organization to pay its employees an “envy premium”....

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is among the most importantfactors affecting financial and social performance in companies and plays a keyrole in consumer reactions. This paper aims to model the impact of CSR onfinancial and social performance of firms as well as consumer reactions....

The study investigated balanced scorecards (BSC) in regards to the Covid-19 pandemic, and it was revealed through the analysis of the conceptual framework that balanced scorecards are deficient in providing a comprehensive framework for evaluating healthcare institutions’ performance, as they...

Performance evaluation is an art through which one can learn about the efficiency achieved in the working of a particular organization. As regards performance evaluation of an organization, there are various measures to analyze performance of any organization. These measures are broadly...

This note presents a novel approach to the performance analysis ofmulti-factor investment strategies. Our main methodological contributions are threefold : first, the use of a cross-sectional projection of assetreturns onto the factors to form approximate portolio returns; second,that of...

The Evaluation of the work performance of the personnel is one of the key activities in human resources management. In this article the methods of evaluation of performance that are applied in the small enterprises in Bulgaria are presented and analyzed. The main advantages and disadvantages of...