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The Four Colors of Business Growth
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The Four Colors of Business Growth

by Anjan V. Thakor
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
5h 10m
English
Elsevier Science
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31Designing the Empirical Tests
DESIGNING THE EMPIRICAL TESTS
There are two types of empirical tests that we have conducted: contem-
poraneous and predictive.
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Each is described below. In these tests, we
assigned two variables (representing dimensions of value creation) to
each of the four quadrants and then chose a proxy for each of these
eight variables, as explained in Figure 3.1 .
A few words on these proxies are in order. Let us start with the Control
quadrant. The two measures of value creation in this quadrant are
quality and efciency. Ideally, we would like to measure quality by
directly assessing the quality of ...
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ISBN: 9780123852397