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Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …
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This paper studies the relationship between leadership as an activity of business process management (BPM) and company … population of 3007 SMEs in Slovenia. Aspects of leadership such as the involvement of employees, middle management, customers and … an activity of BPM and company profitability. It was proved that companies that involve employees and middle management …
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It is not possible for a formal employment contract to detail everything an employee should do and when. Informal relationships, in particular trust, allow managers to arrange a business in a more productive way; high-trust firms are both more profitable and faster growing. For example, if they...
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Control and trust are recurring themes in the analysis of the management of International Joint Ventures (IJVs). Both …
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parallel, firms use corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental management systems partly in the hope that this … of CSR and environmental management with environmentally and socially beneficial innovation and its determinants. Based …
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Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firms' innovation performance. We use a survey data collected from 398 Finnish manufacturing firms for the years 2002 and 2005 to empirically explore whether and which organizational factors explain...
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analysis and presentation of the requirements for project management in SMEs. Whether classical, agile or hybrid project … management is applied is thus no longer a subjective assessment of individuals. The aim is to select the right method and provide … targeted support to the project team in order to professionalize project management. Project management in small and medium …
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A company’s intellectual capital consists of a set of various non-physical sources of value, such as employee competencies, stakeholder relationships and patents. This paper examines the relationship between intellectual capital and productivity at company-level. It is based on a conceptual...
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