Measuring Organizational Performance: Metrics for Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management Research

By Robert Carton, Charles W. Hofer. 2007

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Panel studies of new venture creation: a methods-focused review and suggestions for future research (2012, background): “(2008a, b); Cassar and Friedman (2009); Dimov (2010); Edelman et al.”
Do consistent corporate cultures have better business performance? Exploring the interaction effects (2012, background): “The increased importance of future-oriented and market-based performance criteria such as MtB and sales growth in this study also fits well with the trend in the financial literature (Carton and Hofer, 2008).”
Innovation in family firms: an empirical analysis linking organizational and managerial innovation to corporate success (2011, background): “Although a generally accepted indicator for success in SME and entrepreneurship research (see e.g. Carton and Hofer 2006), not all enterprises want to grow.”
Revisiting Organizational Change: Exploring the Paradox of Managing Continuity and Change (2011, background): “Although approaches like the balanced scorecard, measuring both financial and non-financial aspects of organization (Kaplan and Norton, 1992), and other performance measurement tools recommended by Carton and Hofer (2006) exist, they largely assess performance from the organization’s perspective.”
Implications of customer and entrepreneurial orientations for SME growth (2013, background): “Growth was measured by revenue growth and employment growth because both have proven to be most reliable in capturing the expansion of firms, and are the two most used indicators of success in entrepreneurship research (Carton and Hofer, 2006; Davidsson et al., 2009).”
The role of entrepreneurial orientation in service firms: empirical evidence from Austria (2013, background): “In entrepreneurship research, firm growth has thus become the major indicator for overall corporate performance (Carton & Hofer, 2006).”
Strategic Management Tools and Techniques and Organizational Performance: Findings from the Czech Republic (2015, background): “According to Carton and Hofer (2006) there is “no study that has successfully proposed and empirically tested a multidimensional model to characterise performance of the companies”. For example, Al-Khadash and Feridun (2006) measured organizational performance by return on assets. Rigby (1994) and I”