Title: State of origin: research in global performance management, a proposed research domain and emerging implications

Authors: Allen D. Engle, Sr., Peter J. Dowling, Marion Festing

Addresses: Management, Marketing, Admin. Comm., Eastern Kentucky University, 521 Lancaster Ave, Richmond, KY, USA. ' School of Marketing & International Business, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. ' ESCP-EAP European School of Management, Berlin, Germany

Abstract: This paper is an attempt to delineate a broad domain in the area of global performance management, so that ongoing research does not become so particularised and detailed that major activities of performance management – as globally practised across firms, industries and cultures – are ignored in the pursuit of increasingly constricted conceptualisations of |performance|. The authors, therefore, propose a research domain that further differentiates performance management systems by considering the complexity in performance criteria with special emphasis on inputs, processes and outputs, by looking at explicit and implicit performance approaches and by investigating the extent of global standardisation and local customisation in global performance management.

Keywords: comparative performance metrics; cross-cultural performance appraisal; European performance research domain; global performance management; global standardisation; local customisation.

DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2008.017759

European Journal of International Management, 2008 Vol.2 No.2, pp.153 - 169

Published online: 02 Apr 2008 *

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