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It can be argued that managing change is crucial for any organisation to survive and succeed in the present highly … competitive and continuously evolving business environment. However, theories and approaches to change management currently … unchallenged hypotheses concerning the nature of contemporary organisational change management. This paper seeks to understand the …
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We present the first broadly representative study for any early twentieth century economy of the extent to which quoted company ownership was already divorced from managerial control. In the 337 largest, independent, UK companies in the Investor's Year Book (those with £1m or more share capital...
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inefficiency. Moreover, inefficiency could partly be attributed to factors, which affect the management input and requirements on …
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Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management … in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for …-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if managers are altruistic. Using a tried and tested survey of management …
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We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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workers, (b) management opposition against workers' organizing drives, (c) the possibility of productivity enhancing effects … of forgone productivity gains puts an upper bound on management opposition against organizing drives of the workers, even … if management opposition is cost-less. Strategic gift exchange - less opposition for higher productivity - plays a …
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