new product development (npd) is described in the literature as the transformation of a market opportunity into a product available for sale. in the automotive industry, within the context of iso/ts16949:2002 (the automotive quality management system international standard),  these related to the product realization process (prp) which consists of three main phases such as planning, implementat...

This paper explores the role o f the interlock ties of the board of directors and the external auditors in facilitating cross-firm diffusion of voluntary disclosure practices. Using data from 149 companies listed on the Dutch stock exchange, we investigated the relationship between a firm ’s voluntary disclosure of financial and non-financial performance measures in its annual report and the in...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper introduces a framework developed for the waste management sector supported by Performance Indicators. It was designed in order to be coherent and articulate and to enable full integration of its information. These indicators proved to be a useful management tool. This framework includes 167 performance indicators (PI) divided into two types of information: 58 Contex...

The challenge of agility for adopting new business norms creates the need for measuring performance under changing conditions. This study aims to demonstrate the financial and non-financial consequences of implementing different combinations of lean techniques on the business performance. Bayesian Belief Network is used in studying the effects of factors under changing conditions. There are sev...

Extant research sees reputation as a significant corporate asset, but examinations of the downstream performance impacts of strong reputations have exhibited significant theoretical and empirical limitations and have consequently provided mixed evidence. Conceptualisations of the mechanisms by which firms’ reputations affect financial performance are underdeveloped, and empirical work suffers f...

having a comprehensive evaluation model with reliable data is useful to improve performance of supply chain. in this paper, according to the nature of supply chain, a model is presented that able to evaluate the performance of the supply chain by a network data envelopment analysis model and by using the financial, intellectual capital (knowledge base), collaboration and responsiveness factors ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of financial incentives on four clinical quality indicators common to pay for performance plans in the United Kingdom and at Kaiser Permanente in California. DESIGN Longitudinal analysis. SETTING 35 medical facilities of Kaiser Permanente Northern California, 1997-2007. PARTICIPANTS 2 523 659 adult members of Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Main out...