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| Management Control in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises |
| Language:English | Channel:Management |
Management control is a key function executed by managers, however a rather neglected topic in management research. Jens Hutzshenreuter determines the effect of management control forms on the performance of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). His findings suggest that in fact indirect control forms such as personnel recruiting processes and cultural elements have a stronger performance impact than traditional control forms such as budgeting or process reviews. In addition, he ... |
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| Innovation Strategy and Firm Performance |
| Language:English | Channel:Management |
Even though innovation has become essential for firms' long-term success, formulating an innovation strategy is far from common in companies and not yet well defined and understood in research. This dissertation outlines all dimensions of innovation strategy. Moreover, it answers the question, to what extent there is a relation between innovation strategy and firm performance. The comprehensive empirical research is based on 122 publicly listed manufacturing firms from around the world. It consi... |
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| Handbook Utility Management |
| Language:English | Channel:Management |
Along with the increasing deregulation of European utility markets the dynamics of and the competitive pressure in the utility industries have steadily increased over the last years. These changes in the regulatory framework towards an integrated market environment have resulted in new challenges for the management of power and gas companies and in a substantial need for strategic reorientation. In the context of these developments the Handbook Utility Management reflects current challenges in t... |
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| Management Between Strategy and Finance: The Four Seasons of Business |
| Language:English | Channel:Management |
Companies' decision-making and planning systems find themselves in a constant tug of war between strategic and financial considerations. The authors analyze these two opposing currents in business thinking, dissecting their differences and identifying their best practices. They also develop an approach that reconciles the two conflicting schools of thought – without watering down their differences. Schwenker und Spremann argue that both strategic and financial perspectives can serve as a compass... |
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| New Wave Manufacturing Strategies: Organizational and Human Resource Management Dimensions |
| Language:English | Channel:Management |
Over the past decade, many companies have adopted new strategies for manufacturing, which have taken their competitiveness on to new planes. A whole array of initiatives, such as FMS, JIT, TQM, CIM, and MRP II, have been introduced. This book deals with the far-reaching significance of these new approaches - collectively labelled "new wave manufacturing".
Considerable research evidence as well as practitioners’ own experiences make one crucial point time and time again. The organiza... |
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| Leadership Perspectives: Knowledge into Action |
| Language:English | Channel:Leader LeaderShip |
Taking its theme from the fifth annual Studying Leadership conference held at Cranfield School of Management, this work offers new formulations of the concept of leadership. Making a clear link between research and practice, it explores how new ideas about leadership will lead to new approaches to leadership practice. |
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| Bottom-Line Organization Development: Implementing and Evaluating Strategic Change for Lasting Value |
| Language:English | Channel:Management |
Organization development practitioners have, for over half a century, engaged with organizations to help them grow and thrive. The artful application of Organization Development (OD) has helped business leaders articulate vision, rethink business processes, create more fluid organization structures and better utilize people's talents. While business leaders and OD practitioners intuitively believe that OD provides valuable results, rigorous measurement of the value delivered has long eluded m... |
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| Corporate Governance and Firm Performance (Advances in Financial Economics) |
| Language:English | Channel:Management |
While Advances continues to publish papers from any area of Finance, the focus of this issue is on corporate governance, broadly defined as the system of controls that helps corporations and other organizations effectively manage, administer, and direct economic resources. Included in the volume are papers focusing on: the impact of deregulation and corporate structure on productive efficiency; the effectiveness of the fraud triangle and SAS; board monitoring and access to debt financing; instit... |
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| Industrial Organisation: Competition, Strategy, Policy, 2nd Edition |
| Language:English | Channel:Management |
This new edition of Industrial Organization improves on the success of the first edition, providing a strong link between the theory and analysis of industrial economics and giving real world application of the theory to the business environment. Extensive case studies provide vivid and entertaining descriptions of industrial market structures and business strategies and behaviour. This book is ideally suited to students on an intermediate or advanced level course in Industrial Organisation or I... |
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The book extensively discusses the structure and stability of the Hong Kong banking sector, using economic theory and advanced empirical econometric techniques. It is important for readers who are interested in studying the banking industry in general, and the Hong Kong banking sector in particular.
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