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THE IMPACT OF GENDER ON STRATEGIC TYPOLOGY IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY IN CANADA

Blayney, Candace; Blotnicky, Karen - In: Global Journal of Business Research 5 (2011) 4, pp. 107-117

This research explores the impact of gender on managerial styles, especially the strategic typology employed by hotel managers in Canada during economic stressful times. Miles and Snowâ€™s strategic typology framework of defender, prospector, analyzer and reactor was employed and explored...

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Les échecs du consultant : les comprendre et les éviter

Ohana, Paul; Babeau, Olivier - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

Dans certains cas les missions de conseil en management n'atteignent pas les objectifs escomptés et provoquent d'incroyables gaspillages. Cette analyse présente les causes d'échec de la relation consultant-consulté.

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Management Consultants as Sensitive Information Hawkers Serving Firm's Competition

Babeau, Olivier - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007

The article shows a surprising way of how management consultant's daily practices play a role in managers' decisions. Beyond the traditionally recognized roles of consultants (high level staff, energy catalyst), we pinpoint the importance of information transmission and the ambiguity of this...

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Profiles of Product Innovators Among Large U.S. Manufacturers

Capon, Noel; Farley, John U.; Lehmann, Donald R.; … - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 2, pp. 157-169

This paper identifies four groups among 113 Fortune 500 manufacturers that approach innovation quite differently. The …. Both product innovation and financial performance differ significantly over the groups, and a group of 42 firms that invest … heavily in innovation perform best financially. A smaller group of firms that are not innovative but which follow a strategy …

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Change through innovation in family businesses: evidence from an Italian sample

Bresciani, Stefano; Thrassou, Alkis; Vrontis, Demetris - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 9 (2013) 2, pp. 195-215

Research on the linkages between family firms, innovation and change is scant and lacking empirical investigation. In … capacity of family businesses and the degree and manner to which innovation can lead to change or even be the change needed in … the context of strategic reorientation. The research investigates innovation with reference to the resource perspective …

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MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES:ARE THEY RELATED TO HOTEL PERFORMANCE?

Blayney, Candace - In: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research 2 (2009) 1, pp. 59-71

This research identified the capabilities used by Canadian hotel general managers during a time of economic stress and examines the relationships between capabilities and hotel performance. The instrument used in this study was the New Zealand Management Capability Index (NZIMCI) and contains...

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What Do Companies in the Processing Industry do in Order to Achieve Success?

BONA, Peter; LIPPERT, Robert - In: Expert Journal of Business and Management 3 (2015) 1, pp. 53-61

Borders of countries and continents have become more and more blurred by now, while distances have turned out to be less important. Markets of continents or countries are not separated anymore therefore competition between companies has gotten fiercer and much faster than earlier. What kind of...

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