Strategic Business Performance Measurement and Management in Terms of Industrial Enterprises in Slovakia - Selected Comparison of Domestic and Foreign Companies

The world of business environments in modern economies has changed dramatically the way of pursuing business and depends nowadays heavily on the performance in generating and utilizing new knowledge, innovations and management techniques and tools for creating of the higher business performance. The achievements of our scientific research show the overall conclusion that domestic and foreign companies from selected Slovak industries which reach above average performance are strongly focused on managing its strategic performance while applying many modern concepts and methods of its management. The results of our empirical scientific study provide interesting and valuable findings that the overall performance of industrial enterprises in Slovakia is to be looked at comprehensively strategically and not just in financial terms. Why are some industrial enterprises more efficient than others? What methods and procedures are applied by more efficient companies? The answers to these questions can be found in our paper.