Performance: Its meaning and content for today's business research
Folan, Paul; Browne, J.; Jagdev, Harinder
Date: 11 June 2007
Article
Journal
Computers in Industry
Publisher
Elsevier
Publisher DOI
Abstract
Performance, as a concept, is a subject open to wide variability as it is a somewhat imprecise word when it functions as a placeholder in research. By using definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary and other research disciplines, this paper provides a wide-ranging discussion of the meaning and content of the term performance in ...
Performance, as a concept, is a subject open to wide variability as it is a somewhat imprecise word when it functions as a placeholder in research. By using definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary and other research disciplines, this paper provides a wide-ranging discussion of the meaning and content of the term performance in the business performance research. The paper reviews numerous characteristics of performance, such as its being a subjective entity that is non-random in character; while it is governed by its relevance to a particular environment, and operates from a particular objective, by virtue of a set of chosen characteristics. It contains elements that are both static and dynamic; and it is possible to characterise via three states: unformed or random, formalised or systematic, and deformed or over-bureaucratic. Also, an encapsulating model of performance, whereby performance acts as a frame around performance management, performance assessment and performance measurement is proposed. Studies of performance as a concept in itself are practically non-existent in the business research; the value of this paper, therefore, lies in its attempt to explicate previously undocumented models of performance.
Engineering
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
Item views 0
Full item downloads 0
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Performance, Performance Persistence and Fund Flows: UK Equity Unit Trusts/Open-Ended Investment Companies vs. UK Equity Unit-Linked Personal Pension Funds
Clark, James Peter (University of Exeter Finance, 14 February 2013)This thesis analyses and compares the performance, performance persistence and fund flows for UK equity unit trusts/OEICs and UK equity unit-linked personal pensions over the sample period January 1980 to December 2007. ... -
Withdrawing performance indicators: retrospective analysis of general practice performance under UK Quality and Outcomes Framework.
Kontopantelis, E; Springate, D; Reeves, D; et al. (BMJ Publishing Group, 27 January 2014)OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effect of withdrawing incentives on recorded quality of care, in the context of the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay for performance scheme. DESIGN: Retrospective longitudinal study. ... -
How do strengths and weaknesses in corporate social performance across different stakeholder domains affect company performance?
Kumar, Kamalesh; Boesso, Giacomo; Michelon, Giovanna (Wiley, 31 October 2014)The existing research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has largely focused on the positive aspect of corporate social performance (CSP) and company performance (CP) and ignored the relationship between actions that ...