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management strategies based on “lean supply‐chain” techniques.  …
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The article analyses the “pros” and “cons” of different strategies to be adopted to manage and avoid working capital crisis situations in any organisation. The working capital position depends on many organisational parameters which are interrelated and interdependent, and also vary over...
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Ethics – both within philosophy and in the new disciplines of “applied ethics” and “business ethics” – is a vogue subject these days and, as such, calls for a few cautionary words. The resurgence of ethics has engendered two main schools of criticism: one which sees it as a passing...
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model, as two examples of management fads which have survived for a long period of time. The literature suggests that two …
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Discusses Shakespeare’s Chronicles and their links to organizational behaviour. Highlights lessons from history for those seeking to exercise power successfully and manage both individuals and groups.
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that have been set by upper management. However, this type of approach often results in a lack of productivity. Managers … strategies to help sales managers avoid the micro management trap and to increase productivity of the field sales representative.  …
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internal capabilities. This study supports the notion that strategy is formulated in part as a response to management …
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Using the Chinese, family‐owned manufacturing firm as a primary example, Asian styles of management are examined in …‐based management concepts are not likely to fare well in fast‐changing global arenas. Nevertheless, a model for expanding into …
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emerged, with management consultants fuelling the process. Seeks to make sense of the processes through which consultancy … management consultants working within a privatised public utility, the arly findings from this research suggest that the …
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The multiple organizational factors impacting upon a merger as well as those processes being impacted upon throughout the merger process will be examined. Part 1 of this article examined corporate culture and its affects on employees when two companies merge and considered the importance of...
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