Measuring Business Excellence: Volume 24 Issue 4

Entrepreneurial orientation, absorptive capacity and business performance in SMEs

Manuel-Alejandro Ibarra-Cisneros, Felipe Hernandez-Perlines

Firms must be constantly looking for markets and business opportunities and developing new products; to do so, they must find ways to increase their competitiveness, productivity…

Development of a framework for lean enterprise

Naga Vamsi Krishna Jasti, Srinivas Kota, Samir Ramdas Kale

Lean enterprise (LE) is one of the emerging fields because of its impact across industry sectors. There were many LE framework articles published in the past without reviewing or…

How to measure and manage the UK Government’s major project portfolio

Michael Bourne, David Anker, Glen Chambers, Laszlo Torjai

The purpose of this paper is to stimulate changes to the way performance data is used to improve performance taking the government’s use of project data as an example.

Crowdfunded and then? The role of intellectual capital in the growth of equity-crowdfunded companies

Ciro Troise, Diego Matricano, Elena Candelo, Mario Sorrentino

This paper aims to investigate whether and to what extent equity crowdfunding (ECF) is able to build enduring businesses. This research explores the post-campaign growth of…

Evolutionary paths of performance measurement and management system: the longitudinal case study of a leading SME

Alberto Sardi, Enrico Sorano, Alberto Ferraris, Patrizia Garengo

The literature highlights the relevance of performance measurement and management system in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to face the current competitive environment…

Exploring the effect of intellectual capital on financial performance: a study of Indian banks

Faizi Weqar, Ahmed Musa Khan, Syed Mohammed Imamul Haque

The purpose of this paper is to inspect the effect of intellectual capital (IC) on the financial performance (FP) of Indian banks.

Measuring the impact of organizational complexity, planning and control on strategic alliances’ performance

Andrea Cardoni, George H. (Jody) Tompson, Michele Rubino, Paolo Taticchi

The purpose of this paper is to analyze three characteristics of strategic alliances in Italy to estimate their influence on financial performance. The authors test how alliance…

Closing the strategic planning and implementation gap through excellence in the public sector: empirical investigation using SEM

Hassan Al-Dhaafri, Mohammed Alosani

Strategic planning and strategy implementation are proposed to impact overall performance. However, the purpose of this study is to empirically examine the mediating effect of…

Factors affecting human capital disclosure in an integrated reporting perspective

Nicola Raimo, Alessandra Ricciardelli, Michele Rubino, Filippo Vitolla

Human capital (HC) represents a particularly important element capable of guiding the firms’ value creation process in the new economy. The purpose of this study is to analyze the…