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The catalogue of measurements is now complete. There are merits and pitfalls, and advantages and disadvantages in each, but there is no prescribed best buy. Before answering the Which? one needs to know: For whom? What sort of business is to be performance-measured? And what is the main purpose of the measuring?
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© 1986 Edwin Whiting
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Whiting, E. (1986). Businesses, industries and organisations. In: A Guide to Business Performance Measurements. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07472-3_23
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