Overview
- Uses recent advances in benchmarking, most notably the Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) methods
- Discusses in detail how such comprehensive evaluations support managerial decision making
- Explains how to use a benchmarking model to support strategic choices
Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)
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About this book
"In this book, Peter Bogetoft - THE expert on the theory and practice of benchmarking - provides an in–depth yet very accessible and readable explanation of the best way to do benchmarking, starting from the ground up."
Rick Antle
William S. Beinecke Professor of Accounting, Yale School of Management
CFO, Compensation Valuation, Inc.
"I highly recommend this well-written and comprehensive book on measuring and managing performance. Dr. Bogetoft summarizes the fundamental mathematical concepts in an elegant, intuitive, and understandable way."
Jon A. Chilingerian
Professor, Brandeis University and INSEAD
"Bogetoft gives in his book Performance Benchmarking an excellent introduction to the methodological basis of benchmarking."
Christian Parbøl
Director, DONG Energy
"This book is the primer on benchmarking for performance management."
Albert Birck
Business Performance Manager, Maersk Oil
"This excellent book provides a non technical introduction for performance management."
Misja Mikkers,
Director, Dutch Health Care Authority
"With this very well written and comprehensive introduction to the many facets of benchmarking in hand, organizations have no excuse for not applying the best and cost effective benchmarking methods in their performance assessments."
Stig P. Christensen
Senior R&D Director, COWI
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performance Benchmarking
Book Subtitle: Measuring and Managing Performance
Authors: Peter Bogetoft
Series Title: Management for Professionals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6043-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6042-8Published: 03 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9170-6Published: 20 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6043-5Published: 04 January 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-8096
Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 255
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Optimization, Econometrics