The study is based on a survey implemented in Finland in March-April 2003. The target group of the survey was industrial companies, excluding enterprises employing fewer than five employees. A structured questionnaire was used to collect information regarding to management accounting and performance measurement. The preliminary survey presented in this paper is part of a larger research project...

Within the context of the EU-Project InCoCo-`S`, one of the key aims is to standardize integrative industrial service processes in order to facilitate transparency on service operation performance and the resulting customer benefit. Therefore the Service Performance Measurement System (SPMS) has been developed in order to quantify both the efficiency and effectiveness of industrial service oper...

The general perception that laboratory markets yield efficient competitive outcomes seems to contradict the emphasis on market imperfections that pervades much of the theoretical work in industrial organization. This apparent contradiction is resolved by considering the effects of trading institutions: Competitive outcomes are indeed typical in laboratory markets where trading follows the "doub...

Along with increasing concerns on environmental protection and global warming mitigation, new industrial organization modes such as "Ecoindustrial Park" and "Low Carbon Industrial Park" are emerging. Since ecoindustrial parks and low carbon industrial parks may offer multifaceted benefits to the users, it naturally follows that the sustainability assessment of the industrial parks ought to adop...

as organization developed and the control area of management increased, assessment and control of organizational units became more essential for managers. usually managers try to assess the performance of units by defining and measuring varied indexes in operational department. also this method transforms some idea to managers, but doesn't attention to interrelationship between these index...

Performance standards for industrial mobile robots and mobile manipulators (robot arms onboard mobile robots) have only recently begun development. Low cost and standardized measurement techniques are needed to characterize system performance, compare different systems, and to determine if recalibration is required. This paper discusses work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Novel innovations in the area of digital media are changing the ways we communicate and organize. However, few practical measures exist for analysing the digitalisation of organizational communication as an intermediate factor in the initiatives to adopt new information and communication technologies (ICT). Building upon the genre theory of organizational communication, a categorization of comm...

Real-time monitoring of physical parameters is a key requirement of process systems in particle manufacturing for either industrial or academic applications. We present an inprocess, high pressure (10 bar) flow cell instrument for the combined measurement of particle-size distribution, electrophoretic mobility & conductivity at nano-scales. The measurement performance is characterised in flow a...