Single linkage performs poorly for large families and thus performance is deteriorated by family size weighting.
Regarding a formal-informal sector linkage, group performance in meeting the group's financial obligations to the partner bank is a function of the group member's ability to repay group loans.
Money is obviously essential for satisfying needs, however it has been suggested that money incentives motivate only if employees perceive a strong linkage between performance and rewards [ 20, 23].
This linkage of performance measurement to improvement is well noted in both the medical [ 2, 3] and systems improvement literature, as summed up in the adage "we improve what we measure"[ 4, 5].
The contextualization in terms of adopting local context, potential to couple with national systems, linkages to performance and support to undertake diagnostic/prescriptive actions are the variables taken to assess salience.
Single-linkage tree performance suffered only minor performance loss, when the CluSTr SLim pruning protocol was applied (not shown).
This study has many implications for further research on linkages within performance frameworks now being used in several industrialized countries, and for choosing a national performance framework.
It is advisable that governments invest more in investigating and interpreting possible linkages among performance results in order to aid learning and to facilitate the simultaneous optimization of different performance dimensions and indicators.
Therefore, past research has examined the contents and purposes of mission statements, and their linkage with firm performance, especially financial performance (Bart et al. 2001; Sufi and Lyons 2003).
As an initial investigation of the linkage between KM performance and firm performance, as measured by financial ratios, this study uses the Matched Sample Comparison Group methodology to evaluate research hypotheses.
