Marshall W Meyer

Rethinking Performance Measurement: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard

Performance measurement remains a vexing problem for business firms and other kinds of organizations. The "balanced scorecard", widely touted as a solution to problems of performance measurement and strategic planning, has no strong basis in theory. Moreover, implementation of the "balanced scorecar...

New Economic Sociology, The: Developments in an Emerging Field

As the American economy surged in the 1990s, economic sociology made great strides as well. Economists and sociologists worked across disciplinary boundaries to study the booming market as both a product and a producer of culture, tracing the correlations they saw between economic and social phenome...

You Are My Witness: The Living Words of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer

Marshall Meyer, who died at age 64 in 1993, was a human rights leader and a powerful voice for justice. People flocked to hear him in Argentina, where he served as a rabbi for twenty-five years. In the mid-1980's, he became the spiritual leader of the fastest growing Jewish congregation in the U.S.,...

Marshall Meyer: El Rabino Que Le Vio La Cara Al Diablo (Spanish Edition)

Permanently Failing Organizations

In this volume, the authors closely examine performance and draw on both sociology and economics to explain why some organizations perform well and others perform badly. They first separate the concept of organizational performance from that of organizational persistence. Then they develop a provoca...

Bureaucracy in Modern Society (Random House Studies in Sociology)

Marshall Meyer

Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer (19301993) was an American-born Conservative rabbi and a recognized international human rights activist. ...