Measuring organizational performance in the absence of objective measures: The case of the privately-held firm and conglomerate business unit

✍ Scribed by Gregory G. Dess; Richard B. Robinson Jr.

• Book ID: 112207490
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 660 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.4250050306

✦ Synopsis

Strategic management researchers often encounter problems obtaining objective measures of selected aspects of organizational performance that are reliable and valid. With privately-held firms, such data are frequently unavailable. With conglomerate business units, all or parts of such data are inextricab(y interwoven with corporafe-wide data. This paper examines the usefulness of

subjective performance measures, obtained from top management teams, when problems are encountered in obtaining accurate performance data.