Making the Numbers? “Short Termism” and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
Recent work suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"- delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term performance-makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short termism" has been blamed for every...
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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120570 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-131X |