Monitoring business performance : models, methods, and tools /

The idea of using models to inform business practice seems appealing, as it suggests the abstraction and control of a large, complex subject by means of a smaller, easily manipulated mechanism. In reality, however, many models prove inadequate when translated into business methods. Monitoring Busine...

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Main Author: Lind, Per, 1940-
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2015.
Series:Routledge advances in management and business studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The idea of using models to inform business practice seems appealing, as it suggests the abstraction and control of a large, complex subject by means of a smaller, easily manipulated mechanism. In reality, however, many models prove inadequate when translated into business methods. Monitoring Business Performance - Models, Methods and Tools elucidates how the assumptions and perceptions that guide performance assessment are often based on models that are poor interpretations and descriptions of reality.
Item Description:10 Going Astray-Business Models and State Bureaucracies in an Unholy AllianceIndex.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (247 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781135044978
113504497X
0203694228 (electronic bk.)
9780203694220 (electronic bk.)