What are the methodological requirements of performance measures? To what extent can managers influence performance scores and do they have similar organizational circumstances? What is needed for sound and fair comparisons between organizations? In this article, a step-by-step plan for performance comparisons between organizations is proposed in which both administrative and methodological cha...

Today real-time sports performance analysis is a crucial aspect of matches in many major sports. For example, in soccer and rugby, team analysts may annotate videos during the matches by tagging specific actions and events, which typically result in some summary statistics and a large spreadsheet of recorded actions and events. To a coach, the summary statistics (e.g., the percentage of ball po...

Traditional intelligence analysis suffers from several systemic problems including: information overload; intelligence sharing difficulties; lack of time, methods, and resources for analytic collaboration with area experts; limited capabilities in regard to the consideration of multiple hypotheses; sociocultural and socio-psychological bias informing the analytic process; lack of time and resou...

Movement analysts ranging from spectators and sportswriters, to teachers and coaches, to biomechanists and kinesiologists, to neuroscientists and roboticists believe that coordination is a desirable aspect of performance. Yet, there has been little coordination among movement analysts in the effort to understand and improve coordinated movement. Perhaps our disjointed activity is due in part to...

What drives entrepreneurial activity among knowledge workers? Are stars more likely to become entrepreneurs? Analysis of entrepreneurial efforts from a panel data set of equity research analysts in investment banks over 1988-1996 (9,531 analyst-year combinations representing 2,602 individual analysts from 24 firms) reveals that (a) star knowledge workers are more likely than their non-star coun...

Abstract Certification by analysts on a FinTech platform that harnesses the “wisdom of crowds” is associated with successful initial coin offerings (ICOs). We show favorable ratings group diverse backgrounds positively predict fundraising success and long-run token performance. Analysts’ also help detect potential fraud ex ante. document have career concerns are incentivized to issue informativ...