Renewed interest in research on performance improvement provides an ideal opportunity to examine how much empirical work is actually published and to identify the focus of research in the field. This paper describes a study conducted to examine the empirical research on performance improvement. The study involved a content analysis of articles published in PIQ from 1997 through 2000. Results in...

These are two in a series of occasional reviews of sabermetric articles published in academic journals. It is part of a project of mine to collect and catalog sabermetric research, and I would appreciate learning of and receiving copies of any studies of which I am unaware. Please visit the Statistical Baseball Research Bibliography at www.udel.edu/johnc/fa culty/pavitt.html, use it for your re...

In a context of increasing emphasis on academic performance and accountability, data from a structured survey in which academics elaborated on eight different attributes of high-performing researchers were used to build a conceptual model of research performance. From these data, research performance was seen to comprise two basic components, with six secondary level dimensions and a range of p...

the purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between rate of internet use and the type of its use with academic performance of the students in islamic azad university of zanjan. to reach this goal, in addition to theoretical studies and investigating research literature, data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. experts approved the validity of the questionnaire and t...

in this research, performance of portfolios formed by use of grid strategy based on new variables (aggressive, indifference and defensive stocks) presented by rahnamaye roodposhti (1388), and traditional ones (growth, growth-value and value stocks), calculated with sharpe and treynor performance measures and tested by an active portfolio management approach to identify the portfolios by perform...

today's organizations change their pay structure and pay for performance role increased in pay package. performance pay in every organizational level has been appear. many researches show that in high performance organizations, variable pay has critical role. another variable that is very important in designing compensation strategy is pay dispersion. with using hierarchical linear modelin...