Focuses on the performance planningvalue chain (PPVC). The PPVC is the latestthinking in the field of PerformanceMeasurement developed by the Centre forBusiness Performance, Cranfield School ofManagement. It provides a systemicprocess for using data to enhance decisionmaking,bringing together a...

Intangible assets have become important factors of value creation in today's knowledge economy. However, individually they are often commodities and only create value in combination with other production factors. Therefore, in order to manage for performance and value, companies and their...

Welcome to this special edition of the International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. In this issue we have assembled five papers that look at how performance management methods can be applied to the management of an organisation's pursuit of a strategy.Previously published...

Human performance, particularly that of the warfighter, has been the subject of a large amount of research during the past few decades. For example, in the Medline database of medical and psychological research, 1,061 papers had been published on the topic of “military performance” as of...

The current study examines the performance effects of financial incentives for a simple, recurrent task designed to simulate an assembly-line setting. The study looks at early performance, improvement and overall performance. For a new task, performance-based incentives appear to improve the...

Many corporations have annual expenditures in research and development in the range of billions of U.S. dollars. Senior managers have often been frustrated by the lack of innovation in their organizations and have been looking for better ways to implement an innovation strategy. To provide...

Performance measurement has benefited from several management accounting innovations over the past decade. Guiding these advances is the explicit recognition that it is imperative to understand the causal linkage that leads a firm to profitability. In this paper, we contend that the relationship...

What is measured gets managed – especially if rewards depend on it. For this reason many companies (over 70% in this survey) have upgraded their performance measurement systems so as to include a mix of financial and non-financial metrics. This study compares how companies currently measure...

Many Australasian-Anglo-American jurisdictions including Queensland, other Australian states, the Australian Commonwealth, central government in Britain, the U.S., Canada and New Zealand ( Department of Finance and Administration, 2000 ; NZ Treasury/State Services Commission, 2002 ; Queensland...

What is measured gets managed - especially if rewards depend on it. For this reason many companies (over seventy percent in this survey) have upgraded their performance measurement systems so as to include a mix of financial and non-financial metrics. This study compares how companies currently...