Simultaneous Equation Model based on the generalized maximum entropy for studying the effect of management factors on enterprise performance

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of management factors on enterprise performance, considering a survey that the University Consortium in Engineering for Quality and Innovation has led. The relationships between management factors and enterprise performance are formalized by a Simultaneous Equation Model based on the generalized maximum entropy (GME) estimation method. The format of this paper is as follows. In Section 2, the data collected, the questionnaire evaluation, and the management model analytical formulation are introduced. In Section 3, the GME formulation is specified, showing the main characteristics of the estimation method. In Section 4, the results and a comparison among GME, partial least squares (PLS), and maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is shown. In Section 5, concluding remarks are discussed.This is an electronic version of an article published in:E Ciavolino and Jens Jörn Dahlgaard , Simultaneous Equation Model based on the generalized maximum entropy for studying the effect of management factors on enterprise performance, 2009, JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, (36), 7, 801-815.JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS is available online at informaworldTM: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02664760802510026Copyright: Taylor & Francishttp://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/default.as