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A primer on governance and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises

Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2005

This paper is a primer on corporate performance, corporate governance, and their interrelationships and measurement … research project. In the domain of performance measurement the paper describes the trend from financial to non …-financial measures, as well as a taxonomy of measures and the impact of the TQM movement on measurement practices. In the domain of …

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Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference

Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017

personality psychology and lists challenges in both fields. We discuss challenges regarding the measurement of preferences and …

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ACCOUNTING FOR THE GREAT DIVERGENCE

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Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Productivity Measurement in Manufacturing

Houseman, Susan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

.S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant bias to manufacturing and, where offshoring is involved, aggregate …

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Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Employment Services

Dey, Matthew; Houseman, Susan; Polivka, Anne - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

We estimate the effects of manufacturers' use of employment services—comprised primarily of temporary help and professional employer organizations—on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major contribution of the paper is the construction of...

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