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While the role of management accountants has traditionally been limited to the provision of useful information to … decision-makers, recent studies show that contemporary management accountants have become an integral part of strategic … are relatively strongly involved in strategic management processes, although the level of participation varies intensely …
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Strategic management originates from strategic planning and as a technique for managing all important aspects of a … company’s environment it scientifically differs from other management techniques that only seek to improve operational … effectiveness. Therefore, the empirical research first aimed to determine the influence of systematic use of strategic management …
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The ratios of spending on R&D, advertising and marketing to sales are employed accordingly as direct determinants of the degree of vertical and horizontal product differentiation. The model is verified with direct regressions and a system of simultaneous regressions combining large firm survey...
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Joint production is a term with a long history in economics, encompassing a variety of ubiquitous production types that usually generate both main products as well as desirable and undesirable byproducts. However, studies in economic history show that important phenomena subsumed under this term...
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The basic purpose of this research is to examine if influence factors in change methods choice are linked to an inappropriate approach (i.e. deficiencies) towards change. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to research work was applied. The data were obtained by a...
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philosophies and approaches which derive from the Anglo-American model of ‘people management’. During the Communist period, Romania … experienced a highly centralised system of management. Broader currents of historical and political culture also served to … inculcate values of bureaucratic formalism. In transitional times it appears that the management role is being re-defined and …
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time management, familiar to Western managers 20-30 years ago: hard overload, minimal work from home, passion to visit the … management style proved to be more effective in terms of company's performance. This means that foreign partners should not judge … a priori about the efficiency of their Russian counterparts based on unfamiliar peculiarities of time management. …
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-structured interviews with senior managers, as well as internal management reports, and other documentary evidence. The research concludes …
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The overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that, from the acquirer’s perspective, acquisitions are mostly at best “break-even” situations and at worst failures. Our study seeks to contribute to this pool of knowledge by analysing the performance of horizontal acquisitions. We examined...
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The paper’s purpose is to add to the body of knowledge on strategy implementation by systematically studying the activities for and obstacles to strategy execution on a sample of 172 Slovenian companies. The results show that managers mostly rely on planning and organising activities when...
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