Balanced scorecard is increasingly being used as a strategic performance management tool in both public and private sectors. This adoption has encouraged evolution of the balanced scorecard methodology over the last two decades. Although, the available generations of this methodology are readily adoptable for private sector organizations, public sector organizations present diverse challenges f...

Performance measurements play an important role in understanding the determinants of successful performance of firms. The balanced scorecard is one of the integrated performance measurement systems that has wide acceptance in several countries. The prior studies investigated different aspects of balanced scorecard in the developed countries, but this study contributes to the performance measure...

The Balanced Scorecard of Kaplan and Norton is a management tool that supports the successful implementation of corporate strategies. It has been discussed and considered widely in both practice and research. By linking operational and non-financial corporate activities with causal chains to the firm’s long-term strategy, the Balanced Scorecard supports the alignment and management of all corpo...

This paper studies the incentive effects of a balanced scorecard within a multitask agency framework under both formal and relational contracts. First, the main characteristics of the balanced scorecard are analyzed with respect to performance measure congruity. It is shown that under complete verifiability, a properly designed balanced scorecard is capable of perfectly aligning the interests o...

The balanced business scorecard is a widely-used management framework for optimal measurement of organizational performance. Explains that the scorecard originated in an attempt to address the problem of systems apparently not working. However, the problem proved to be less the information systems than the broader organizational systems, specifically business performance measurement. Discusses ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Oregon Health & Science University Family Medicine implemented a balanced scorecard within our clinics that embraces the inherent tensions between care quality, financial productivity, and operational efficiency. This data-driven performance improvement process involved: (1) consensus-building around specific indicators to be measured, (2) developing and refining the b...

BACKGROUND Many low income countries have policies to exempt the poor from user charges in public facilities. Reliably identifying the poor is a challenge when implementing such policies. In Tanzania, a scorecard system was established in 2011, within a programme providing free national health insurance fund (NHIF) cards, to identify poor pregnant women and their families, based on eight compon...

INTRODUCTION In 2005, Kenya's Ministry of Health (MOH) in its quest to improve health outcomes developed the Community Health Strategy (CHS) as a key approach. The MOH and partners grappled with the challenge of managing the functionality of the Community Health Units (CHUs). Amref Health Africa in Kenya developed a replicable CHUs Functionality Scorecard for measuring and managing the function...

The goal of this paper is proposing a supply chain value dashboard in home appliance manufacturing firms to create more value for all stakeholders via balanced scorecard approach. Balanced scorecard is an effective approach that managers have used to evaluate supply chain performance in many fields but there is a lack of enough attention to all supply chain stakeholders, improving value creatio...

A balanced scorecard (BSC) is a management decision tool intended to be the corporate performance measurement. It also can play an important role in transforming an organization’s mission and strategy into a balanced set of integrated performance measures. Assigning suitable weight to each level of balanced scorecard is crucial to conduct performance evaluation effectively. In this research a c...