Measuring corporate performance

doi:10.1016/0024-6301(94)90059-0

Long Range Planning

Volume 27, Issue 4, August 1994, Pages 89-98

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Abstract

Recent annual reports highlighting the corporate performance of some large well-known companies such as BCCI, Polly Peck, Trafalgar House, Blue Arrow, and Maxwell Communications all had an unexpected feature in common. They turned out to be deliberately misleading. Other annual returns extolling the virtues of company performance could likewise be regarded as ‘economic with the truth’. They also lack consistency in their methods and techniques of acocunting making interpretation and cross-comparisons difficult.

The authors review the attempts to measure corporate performance effectively and realistically so that a ‘true’ picture of an organization can be painted.

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Measuring corporate performance

Abstract

Performance measurement of expert assessment in the UK retail financial services industry

Loughborough University Management Research Series, paper number 1990:20

Accounting for Growth

Foundations of Corporate Success

Who are the worlds most successful companies?

Business Strategy Review

Business Behaviour, Value and Growth

The Economic Theory of ‘Managerial’ Capitalism

Economics of Discretionary Behaviour. Managerial Objectives in a Theory of the Firm

Industrial Economics and Organization

Top Management Teams and Corporate Performance

Strategic Management Journal

Strategic marketing, planning and performance

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Marketing Academy

A comparative study of US and Japanese marketing strategies in the British market

International Journal of Research in Marketing