Performance Measurement in Corporate Venturing

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-3-89936-045-5
Verlag: Eul, J

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 222 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: FGF Entrepreneurship-Research Monographien

Corporations pursue with Corporate Venture Capital financial and strategic objectives at the same time. The performance measurement especially of strategic returns as well as their integration into a balanced performance measurement system is an interesting research question with high relevance for practitioners.

This thesis presents a new approach of performance measurement of Corporate Venturing using the Balanced Scorecard concept. Financial and strategic results and their performance drivers were integrated into a Balanced Scorecard with the management perspectives financials, collaboration and networking, processes and potentials. Besides this, a Portfolio Company Scorecard Monthly is created for the reporting of single investments to the Corporate Venturing unit. In addition, a cockpit-system is designed, integrating the mentioned performance measurement instruments into an IT-system.

This thesis was developed in cooperation and with the support of Bain & Company, Munich und scientifically guided by Prof. Dr. D. Seese at the University of Karlsruhe at the Institute of Applied Informatics und Formal Description Methods.

In November 2002 this thesis has been awarded by the FGF Entrepreneurship Research Association with the „FGF-Diploma-Thesis-Award“ at the 6th Annual Conference G-Forum in Wuppertal, Germany.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faisst, Ulrich

Weitere Mitwirkende

Klandt, Heinz

Seese, Detlef

Über Autor(innen)

Ulrich Faisst, born 1975, studied Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Karlsruhe between 1996 and 2001. His majors were Corporate Finance, Computer Networks, Applied Informatics, Management of Innovation, Operations Research as well as Applied Economic Theory. He did several internships in the IT- and consumer goods industry as well as with a top management consultancy. In the year 2000 he studied at the Andersen Graduate School of Management of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Currently the author works at the University of Augsburg, Business School, Department of Information systems as well as at the Competence Center IT & Financial Services of Prof. Dr. H. U. Buhl.