The study at hand analyses the research strategies applied in empirical articles addressing the concept of mission statements. We systematically scanned eight computerized databases in order to delimit the field of empirical mission statement research. This scanning process resulted in 63...

Background<br> Although it is widely recognized that the effectiveness of mission statements is contingent upon the extent to which they are communicated to the organization’s members, there is virtually no literature about how individual organizational members perceive the mission statement....

Background <br>Despite the omnipresence of mission statements, studies indicate that creating an effective mission statement is extremely difficult. <br>Purposes <br>Given the increasing pressure on health care administrators to develop an effective mission statement, this article sought to devise a state...

Convinced that it will improve their performance, the majority of public and non-profit organizations has developed a formal mission statement. However, despite its popularity, the assumed mission statement-performance hypothesis seems to be barely analyzed nor tested (Weiss and Piderit 1999)....

Background: Although mission statements are one of the most popular management instruments, little is known about the nature and direction of the presumed relationship between mission statements and organizational performance. In particular, empirical insights into the degree of mission...

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This article describes a new Stata routine, xtbcfe, that performs the iterative bootstrap-based bias correction for the fixed effects (FE) estimator in dynamic panels proposed by Everaert and Pozzi (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2007). We first simplify the core of their algorithm...