BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: PROBLEM STATEMENT AND SELECTION OF AN APPROOACH TO THE SOLUTION
The article gives a systematic view of the constituent problems of business performance management and substantiates a possible approach to its solution. It considers terminological constituent problems: the concept content of «business», «efficiency», «performance», «efficient performance», «resources of efficiency». It is shown that selection of methods for business performance management depends on the current theory of firm and/or the approach to management and evaluation of the companys activities. Their evolution is considered: transaction (contract) theory; resource approach; knowledge-based approach; concept of dynamic capabilities; entrepreneurial theories of the firm; process approach and behavioral theory of the firm; strategic theory of the firm. The spheres of their specific attention are identified, while showing the necessity of giving weight to all factors of business performance. A conclusion is made of development prospect for the strategic theory of the firm and the strategic approach, based on its statements, which integrates well the concept of BPM - Business Performance Management.