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Measuring organizational performance in the absence of objective measures: The case of the privately‐held firm and conglomerate business unit
Author(s) -
Dess Gregory G.,
Robinson Richard B.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
strategic management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 11.035
H-Index - 286
eISSN - 1097-0266
pISSN - 0143-2095
DOI - 10.1002/smj.4250050306
Subject(s) - strategic business unit , unit (ring theory) , business , conglomerate , strategic management , organizational unit , organizational performance , marketing , management , industrial organization , operations management , computer science , economics , psychology , biology , paleontology , mathematics education , computer security , sedimentary rock
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 inextricably interwoven with corporate‐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.