Per Lind

Monitoring Business Performance

Models, Methods and Tools

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Performance assessment is often based on models that are poor interpretations or descriptions of reality. This book examines the models underlying popular business methods and tools and highlights the assumptions that undermine their effectiveness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415836708
• ISBN-10: 0415836700
• Artikelnr.: 40543841

Autorenporträt

Per Lind is Professor in Industrial Economics and Management at Uppsala University, Sweden. He received his doctoral degree from Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He has experience with management in industry (production, marketing) with IBM and Logica, and developed business monitoring systems for UNIDO. He is author of Computerisation in Developing Countries (Routledge, 1991), Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments (Routledge, 2012) and about 60 other publications in English, Spanish and Russian.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: Models and Theories 1. Monitoring Business Performance 2.
Models as Descriptions of Reality 3. Models in Natural and Social Sciences
- A Comparison 4. Are Models Transferable in Time and Space? 5. Models as
Reflections of Knowledge and Ideas Part II: Methods and Tools 6. Models for
Assessing Business Performance 7. Performance Indicators 8. Methods and
Tools for Business Development 9. Information Systems as Business
Monitoring Tools 10. Going Astray - Business Models and State Bureaucracy
in an Unholy Alliance