Measuring portfolio strategic performance using key performance indicators

It is difficult to find indicators for measuring the achievement of objectives during the progress of project portfolios. This article presents an approach for developing key strategic perfor‐mance indicators considering this limitation. The indicators proposed help measure the achievement of a portfolio's strategic objectives taking into account the realization of key benefits. This approach helps identify strategic interdependences between projects that the portfolio is composed of, facilitating the understanding of how the performance of a single project affects the overall performance of a portfolio. The key perfor‐mance indicators can also be used for monitoring the materialization of risks and opportunities influencing the strategic performance of a portfolio.     

Environmental strategy and low waste operations: exploring complementarities

Organizations require guidance on the most effective functional areas in which to invest in order to improve and sustain environmental performance. As managerial practices progress from concerns with compliance towards practices seeking competitive advantage, more theory is needed regarding the manner in which corporate strategy and operational practices influence environmental performance. This research considers the potential for previously under‐researched complementarities between strategy and operations and the bridging role of environmentally specific practices such as the use of environmental experts as determinants of environmental performance. Using a sample of manufacturing firms, this study explores the relative contribution to environmental performance of strategic intentions, core operational practices such as data and quality management and environmentally specific practices that link strategy to operations. The most significant influence on environmental performance was found to be environmental expertise – which creates a bridge between strategy and operations – and information‐intensive practices such as quality and data management. Strategic intentions or core operational practices in isolation were not considered sufficient support to successfully maintain or improve environmental performance. This research provides a contribution to our understanding of interactions between those functions that have the greatest influence on environmental performance management in manufacturing firms. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.     

山西省装备制造业集群企业合作与创新之间关系的经验分析

利用山西省装备制造业集群企业的数据,实证分析了集群企业的纵向合作和横向合作对综合创新、产品创新和流程创新的作用。结果表明:纵向合作是影响山西省装备制造业集群创新的重要因素,横向合作对产品创新的影响较为显著。     

An environmental performance index for products reflecting damage costs

Several studies have demonstrated how to use DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) based techniques to estimate environmental performance indices. None of these studies, however, are taking information on the environmental damage costs of the pressure types considered into account. This study is bridging a gap between environmental indices founded in physical pressures and damage costs founded in welfare economics. The aim of the paper is twofold: first, to demonstrate how to implement the information on environmental damage costs within a DEA based environmental performance index, and second, to estimate these indices at product level by using Danish input-output data and environmental data from 1997.     

中国旅游业发展过程中政府主导绩效研究——基于政策效果的评估

作为"朝阳性产业"的旅游业,能否保持持续、稳定的增长与政府的指导和支持密切相关.改革开放以后,旅游业发展经历了三个阶段,每个阶段旅游产业政策的绩效各有侧重,应实行以市场配置资源、政府主导的旅游业发展格局,以促进旅游业的可持续发展.     

浅谈地勘单位改制下的企业负责人绩效考核体系改进

地勘单位原属国家事业性质的单位,各有一套考核模式和考核办法。在地勘单位改制的大背景下,如何结合地勘单位目前的企业性质和工作实际对地勘单位企业负责人进行科学的考核,是当前许多地勘单位面临的重要课题。而运用平衡计分卡、目标管理法的相关知识,提出地勘单位企业负责人绩效考核的整体方案,建立绩效辅导与结果申诉体系、加强绩效考核结果应用等措施,对地勘单位建立和改进企业负责人绩效考核体系有重要的借鉴意义。     

企业空白地带的绩效改进设计

本文基于158份有效的社会调查问卷,对空白地带绩效评测的5个维度的功效进行了检验。结果表明,冲突解决能力、合作意识、资源与信息共享、目标一致这4个因子对于空白地带的绩效改进具有显著的且稳健的积极作用,而员工自身业务能力的作用并不显著。本文的研究结果说明,要解决空白地带所产生的问题,关键在于建立良好的沟通与协作机制。     

中国的出口潜力及其影响因素——基于随机前沿引力模型的估计

本文通过构建随机前沿引力模型估计了中国的前沿出口水平以及出口潜力,并将影响中国出口的因素分为自然决定因素和人为决定因素,分别估计了这些因素对于出口的影响程度,由此确认了中国出口的需求拉动特征。同时,中国出口处于低效率状态,说明其所受的人为贸易阻力较大,随着世界贸易环境的改善,中国仍然具有较大的出口潜力。在当前外部需求减弱的情况下,通过短期政策促进出口企业产能具有重要的危机应对意义。从长期而言,出于维护国家经济安全的考虑,注意开发国内市场,启动内部消费,适当降低中国经济增长的对外依赖程度仍然是经济政策的重要指向。     

大型国有企业实施预算管理的经验和问题探讨

为适应激烈的竞争环境,中国的大型国有企业根据自身的情况,不断的探索符合自身要求的预算管理模式,并在探索中积累经验。本文总结了大型国有企业在预算管理方面的经验,并提出了问题和建议。