“…However, the strategic implications of internal and external performance measurement have not been demonstrated as reliable either for a sample within one industry or across industries (particularly, refer to (Figure 1 below, Hoque and James, 2000). Most of the analyses of the efficiency and applicability of the BSC have been unitary case analyses (Bukh et al, 2002;Chan, 2001;Chia and Loon, 2000;Denton and White, 2002;Hagood et al, 2002;Lonnqvist, 2003;Malina and Selto, 2001;Youngblood and Collins, 2003). The original 1992 design of the BSC was the result of a case analysis of a dozen companies (Kaplan and Norton 2001).…”