International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management: Volume 66 Issue 8

Editorial

Thomas F. Burgess, John Heap

Hospital centre performance dimensions and internal stakeholder valuation: a case study

Ana Simões, Américo Azevedo, Suzete Gonçalves

Hospital centres (HCs) are the result of a horizontal integration of two or more hospital units. The benefits of this integration have been presented in the literature. The…

Investigating the factors influencing cultural adjustment and expatriate performance: The case of Malaysia

Murali Sambasivan, Morvarid Sadoughi, Pouyan Esmaeilzadeh

The fundamental question addressed in this research is: How do cultural intelligence, personality traits of expatriates, spousal support and cultural adjustment of expatriates…

Relationship between sustainable operations practices and performance: a meta-analysis

Marina D’Agostini, Vilmar Antonio Gonçalves Tondolo, Maria Emília Camargo, Angela Isabel dos Santos Dullius, Rosana da Rosa Portella Tondolo, Suzana Leitão Russo

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between sustainable operations practices (SOP) and performance.

Alignment: the foundation of effective strategy execution

Amit Kumar Srivastava, Sushil

Understanding a lack of strategy execution research, especially a lack of execution frameworks, the purpose of this paper is to focus on building a model of one of the most…

Board characteristics and real performance in Malaysian state-owned enterprises (SOEs)

Fekri Ali Shawtari, Muslim Har Sani Mohamad, Hafiz Majdi Abdul Rashid, Abdullah Moh’d Ayedh

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between board characteristics and real performance among state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Malaysia in a longitudinal…

Sustainable goal setting: a large-scale case in management practice

Carl Deschamps, Jan Mattijs

The purpose of this paper is to give evidence of effective, large-scale, and time-sustained goal setting through the use of performance indicators (PIs) in managing a fairly large…

Measuring collaborative effectiveness: a conceptual approach

Kumaraguru Mahadevan

The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual supply chain (SC) hierarchical framework to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the collaborative SC based on the…