Evaluation of the Relationship between the Implementation of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) and the Stock Performance


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Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Controlling, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, course: Finance Controlling & Accounting, language: English, abstract: In this paper, the goals will be emphasized on how the Balanced Score-card (BSC) can be improved towards a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) and used. Furthermore the correlation between the Implementation of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) and the Stock Performance in Study Case of DAX 30 Companies Performance between 2016 and 2018 would be theoretical evaluated and statistically tested. Nowadays, the term sustainability has become popular among companies to implicate social, economic and environmental pillars to their strategy and management of the company. Today, companies should not only focus on their profits, but they are also forced to concern about other issues such as social, economic and environmental. Unfortunately, many companies still do not know how to implement or measure its outcomes. Therefore, this academic paper might be helpful to assist especially managers to implement the concept of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) as strategic controlling for their long-term success. However, these issues would be a challenge for all managers who in general have role for planning, organizing, leading, and controlling so that they need a tool such as Sustainability Balanced Scorecard which might be supporting them. Moreover, having concern to other issues above and inserting them into the concept of Balanced Scorecard, which is in general consisting of four perspectives, such as finance, customer, internal process, and learning & growth, it might become a challenge because they probably need to spend extra more money for doing that and it might affect to their profit.




The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Controlling Tool


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Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich BWL - Controlling, Note: 2,3, Fachhochschule Brandenburg, Veranstaltung: Finance Controlling & Accounting, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The following questions are discussed in the paper: Why is it so necessary applied for sustainability of the business nowadays? How can the implementation of SBSC help the company’s financial performance? What are the benefits of implementing SBSC? This work might be helpful to assist especially managers to implement the concept of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) as strategic controlling for their long-term success in their sustainability strategy. During the last decade, environmental and social issues, are reflected in market transactions and have become an important issue so that many companies implemented specific environmental and social management systems. However, these systems have rarely been integrated with the general management system of a firm so that it is often not related to the economic success of the firm and the economic contribution of environmental and social management. The topic about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become familiar nowadays, where companies, especially listed companies, have disclosed their CSR-activities, which involve economic, environmental and social issue, in their annual report or in their sustainability reports to show to the public that they are also concerned about these issues. Furthermore, sustainability has increasingly become an important issue for wellbeing of human life and it is responsibility of many parties such as individuals, corporations, or governments. Nowadays, the term sustainability also has become popular among companies to implicate social, economic and environmental pillars to their strategy and management of the company. Today, companies should not only focus on their profits, but they are also forced to concern about other issues such as social, economic and environmental. Unfortunately, many companies still do not know how to implement or measure its outcomes.




Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government


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Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present. Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government, makes a conceptual contribution to public sustainability performance evaluation and develops a set of framework indicators with the help of the strategic and comprehensive approach “Sustainability Balanced Scorecard”. As a conceptual basis for the further research and application, this volume will be of great interest to researchers and practitioners at many levels of environmental / sustainability, public management and strategic control studies. Evaluators will find methodological approaches and applied tools for their work. Decision-makers and managers will find it valuable to manage the social, economic and environmental issues in a balanced and integrated manner. Governments will also find it helpful in assisting them in establishing an evaluation system towards sustainable development.




The Balanced Scorecard as Strategic Controlling Instrument. Introducing the Indicators-based BSC for Implementation of a Corporate Strategy from Four Different Perspectives


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Nowadays, many companies should not only discuss about how to obtain profits from their products. They should also be forced to use any other aspect that has the ability to increase the impact for their long-term success. Examples are: discussing about the quality of their products, the relationship between them and their customers and employees, the production process as well as marketing. Those are the challenges for all managers who are not only struggling to achieve their company’s targets - high profits - but also to achieve customers', employees' and stakeholders' satisfaction. Therefore, managers need to seek out an approach which is able to help them finishing their tasks and involves all the aspects mentioned. Nevertheless, it is not easy to reconcile conflicting demands of individual interest groups. The concept of the balanced scorecard (BSC) is one of the modern approaches to handle these challenges. The balanced scorecard is the main topic of this book. More precisely, it explains the benefits of introducing the indicators-based balanced scorecard as a strategic controlling instrument for implementation of a corporate strategy from four different perspectives: financial, customer, internal business process as well as learning and growth perspective.




Creating a Balanced Scorecard for a Financial Services Organization


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How to tap the power of the balanced scorecard, for financial services organizations Designed to help financial services organizations build and implement the strategic management framework known as the balanced scorecard, Creating a Balanced Scorecard for a Financial Services Organization is the book you need to ensure accountability, transparency, and risk management in your enterprise. The financial crisis revealed the many shortcomings of the industry, but with this book in hand you can make the most of the mistakes of the past to build a better, stronger business that balances both short- and long-term goals. Rich in the latest theoretical thinking and incorporating case studies that show the balanced scorecard system in action, the book covers both financial and non-financial performance perspectives in one comprehensive volume. Written by two leading practitioners with years of real-life experience, the book is the definitive step-by-step guide to implementing the balanced scorecard throughout your organization, aligning your whole business with your strategic goals. Includes everything you need to improve performance transparency, accountability, governance procedures, risk management, and more for financial services organizations of any kind Packed with expert advice and case studies that show the ideas presented in action Written by leading experts who have successfully implemented the balanced scorecard system in their own companies Accessible and in-depth, Creating a Balanced Scorecard for a Financial Services Organization is the book you need to improve your business.




Analysis of the Balanced Scorecard as a strategic controlling instrument with an example from the insurance industry


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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,7, University of applied sciences, Neuss (FOM Fachhochschule für Oekonomie & Management Neuss), language: English, abstract: In view of the growing competition, the increased change in customers’ wants and the potential of new communication and information technologies, more and more companies are faced with the need to permanently adjust and further develop their processes, products and offer. To be able to exist in the market, a company must be in a position to recognise future developments early and include them in the strategy. A company should therefore use management instruments which make it able to adjust strategies quickly and communicate them transparently in the whole company. There is increasing criticism of the classical controlling instruments. It is argued that controlling is supposed to provide management relevant data for the management which do not only include financial historical information as so far, but also include future related non-monetary figures. Against this background the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is becoming more important. It extends the previous focus on finance issues to assess the performance of a company with a range of other aspects and ratios. The customer perspective, the internal process perspective and the learning and development perspective are supposed to be considered equally next to the financial perspective in the BSC. The targets of this thesis are split into a main target and a sub target. The main target of this paper is split again into two parts: The first part of the main target is to show and to explain the relevant theoretical framework of the BSC, in particular to strategic controlling. The second part of the main target is to analyse the BSC as a strategic management system and to give an overview about this strategic controlling tool as it is seen in academic literature. The sub target of this paper is to provide a link between theory and practice by applying the theory to a current example taken from the insurance industry. The result is a recommendation for a BSC as a strategic controlling instrument for that specific insurance company. With this specific BSC for an insurance company comes also a tool for a well structured evaluation of the chances and risks involved with its application.




A Balanced Scorecard Framework for Measuring Sustainability of Business Organizations


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Sustainability is about meeting the needs of today without compromising the needs of future generations. It involves focus on three main dimensions economic, environmental and social for achieving overall performance. Majority of the companies are adopting sustainability for business growth and boosting their corporate image for long term competitiveness, thereby receiving financial benefits as well. Sustainability is a concept that has come into picture a few years back and presently making a big mark in every field. In the thesis, we propose a balanced scorecard framework for measuring sustainability performance of business organizations. We begin by studying, why the companies should invest in sustainability initiatives and what are the tools used for measuring sustainability. We investigate different scorecards for measuring sustainability and propose a new sustainability scorecard model to measure organization’s overall sustainable performance. Our sustainability scorecard encompasses four main dimensions namely organization, process, core and learning. Each of these dimension comprises of various indicators obtained from GRI and corporate reports of 100 most sustainable companies- Forbes. The application of the sustainability scorecard is performed via multi criteria decision making technique called- Analytical Network Process (ANP). A numerical study is provided. The strength of the proposed model is that, - it overcomes the problems faced by the traditional balanced scorecards in sustainability evaluation of organizations. It provides a strong framework, has great flexibility and allows the opportunity to study the impact of one indicator over the other through the means of sensitivity analysis to identify improvements.




The Balanced Scorecard. A Critique


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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1.0, Anglia Ruskin University, language: English, abstract: In today’s business environment measuring business performance is a matter of life and death within any organisation (compare Ittner and Larcker, 1998). Due to the changing nature of work and increasing competition with changing demands (Neely, 1999) the number of people interested in business performance measurement has recently increased dramatically. But business performance measurement is confronted with a vital choice what system the company should use to quantify the success of the organisation’s strategy. In this context the Balanced Scorecard(Kaplan and Norton, 1992, 1996) is almost used as a synonym for measuring Business Performance Measurement (BPM). With this in mind, the following dissertation aims at a critical exploration and assessment of the framework of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and it examines if this framework merits its wide popularity experienced and still experiences. Following a definition of the BSC, the author turns to the elements of the BSC with its key proclamations. Strengths and weaknesses will be outlined by considering different case scenarios. The main attention will be put on the question whether the BSC leads to better business results, as it is publicized, or if its wide use is only an outcome of its effective promotion. Before the analysis comes to an ending in which it summarises the key points, the author suggests some recommendations for organisations when using the BSC, in order to meet its problem areas. In this context the author’s personal view will be flowing in.




Sustainability Balanced Scorecard


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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensführung, Management, Organisation, Note: 1,3, Fachhochschule Trier - Hochschule für Wirtschaft, Technik und Gestaltung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Erklärtes Oberziel aller unternehmerischen Handlungen ist die langfristige Gewinn- und Substanzsicherung. In dieser allgemeinen Form kann sich das Ziel eines Unternehmens auf einen breiten Konsens stützen. Sobald dieser Vorsatz kon-kretisiert wird, treten Konflikte zutage, die sich vor allem auf die Fragen beziehen, welche Werte für wen und auf welche Weise geschaffen werden sollen. Die Zukunft wird den Unternehmen gehören, welche sich nicht von bisherigen Erfolgen treiben lassen, sondern frühzeitig Veränderungen erkennen und ihre Unternehmensentwicklung dahingehend aktiv gestalten. Vor diesem Hintergrund gewinnt das Leitbild der »nachhaltigen Entwicklung« (sustainable development) zunehmend an Bedeutung. Im Nachhaltigkeitskonzept geht es darum, einen integrativen Ansatz zu finden, der ökonomische, ökologische und soziale Aspekte gleichermaßen in unternehmerischen Handlungen und Entscheidungen berücksichtigt. Diesem Anspruch werden jedoch die wenigsten Unternehmen gerecht. Vielfach werden ökologische und soziale Fragen isoliert und parallel zum Kerngeschäft in separaten Abteilungen und Gremien getrennt von der Linie und dem Tagesgeschäft behandelt. In diesem Zusammenhang werden Umwelt- und Sozialmanagementsysteme oft neben den konventionellen betriebswirtschaftlichen Managementsystemen als »Satelittensysteme« geführt. Eine solche Vorgehensweise lässt darauf schließen, dass sich Konfliktpotenziale abzeichnen und weder die ökologischen und sozialen noch die ökonomischen Potenziale im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung ausgeschöpft werden. Wie können Unternehmen dieser vielbeschworenen Forderung der Integration von ökologisch und sozial ausgerichteten Aktivitäten mit den ökonomischen Zielen nachkommen? Ein möglicher Ansatzpunkt bietet die Sustainability Balanced Sco-recard, ein Instrumentarium, das zu einer besseren Identifikation und Koordination von erfolgsrelevanten marktlichen und außermarktlichen Umwelt- und Sozialaspekten beitragen kann.




Balanced Scorecard als externes Publizitätsinstrument des Integrated Reportings


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Bereits im Jahr 1606 wurde durch die Herausgabe der weltweit ersten Aktie die Basis für eine kapitalmarktorientierte externe Rechnungslegung geschaffen. Globale gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und Trends stellen diese Rechnungslegung heute allerdings vor eine Vielfalt neuer Herausforderungen. Dazu gehören etwa die gestiegene Nachfrage nach nachhaltigen Produkten, die Erweiterung des Adressatenkreises, die Forderung nach mehr Transparenz sowie die zunehmend erwartete Zukunftsorientierung der Berichterstattung. Dieses Informationsbedürfnis versuchen die Unternehmen mit einer stetig steigenden Anzahl verschiedener Unternehmensberichte zu befriedigen, wodurch eine Informationsüberflutung mit immer mehr unverbunden nebeneinanderstehenden Berichten entsteht, die allerdings eher zu Verwirrung führt, anstatt bestehende Informationsasymmetrien effizient abzubauen. Infolge dieses Missstands wurde das Integrated Reporting (IR) als Reformierung der internationalen Rechnungslegung vorgestellt. Ziel ist das Aufgreifen der globalen Trends und Entwicklungen, um ein realitätsgetreueres Bild der Wertschöpfungspotentiale von Unternehmen zu zeichnen. Im Zentrum stehen dabei vor allem die verstärkte Betrachtung nicht finanzieller Aspekte der Wertschöpfung sowie die Verknüpfung der Informationen aus der Vielzahl der publizierten Berichte. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht in diesem Kontext die Nutzung der Balanced Scorecard als externes Publizitätsinstrument des Integrated Reportings. Dazu wird zunächst eine Weiterentwicklung des konventionellen Balanced Scorecard Modells entworfen, die sich der besonderen Anforderungen und Gegebenheiten des Integrated Reportings annimmt. Anschließend werden Möglichkeiten diskutiert, diese Modellerweiterung im Rahmen der externen Unternehmenskommunikation anzuwenden, um somit eine Brücke zwischen den Unternehmen und der Öffentlichkeit zu schlagen und bestehende Informationsasymmetrien abzubauen.