This article aims to discuss theoretically how performance measurement can support the process of continuous improvement. The starting point is the assumption the process of continuous improvement is an evolutionary process and it needs an infrastructure to attain their objectives. One element of such infrastructure is the performance measurement and it should have different characteristics according to each stage of evolution of continuous improvement. Therefore, the main result is a framework that establishes the main characteristics of the performance measurement system according to each level of continuous improvement.
Performance measurement; continuous improvement; evolution of continuous improvement; performance measures
