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Capability Evolution and a Replication Strategy: Stimulating Middle Management Knowledge Search Routines and Architecture Competences

Tippmann, Esther; Scott, Pamela Sharkey; Mangematin, Vincent - HAL - 2012

detailed investigation of middle managers' knowledge search routines in Gamma, a leading ICT multinational corporation (MNC … such mechanisms in facilitating a more efficient search and leverage of existing solutions, knowledge search routines are … revealing the importance of architecture competences in developing solutions that renew routines and how these competences can …

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Sub-Replication and Replenishing Premium: Efficient Pricing of Multi-State Lookbacks

Wong, Hoi; Kwok, Yue - In: Review of Derivatives Research 6 (2003) 2, pp. 83-106

The direct valuation procedure of performing discounted expectation to obtain the prices of multi-state lookback options may lead to insurmountable complexity and numerical difficulties. The computation may require numerical differentiation of the joint distribution function of the extremum...

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A critical evaluation of first line managers' perceptions of organisational change at Sanlam

Noemdo, Leon Abraham - 2009

A quantitative research study was conducted in order to obtain insight and knowledge of the perceptions of management with regard to changes taking place within the Financial Services Sector (FSS). The call centre at Sanlam Head Office in Bellville was used as a case study, and focus was...

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The paradox of managerial downsizing

Littler, Craig R.; Innes, Peter - 2004

Delayering and the flattening of organizational hierarchies was a widespread trend through the 1990s. Peters (1992) in the USA promoted flattening as an organizational strategy and Keuning and Opheij (1994) promoted the prescriptions in Europe. Despite these strategies and apparent structural...

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Middle Management In An Era Of Corporate Restructuring: A Case Study Of Retailing

Bramble, Thomas; Parry, Ken; O'Brien, Elizabeth - 1996

This article reports on the impact of corporate restructuring on middle management at Australia's largest specialty retailer. The first section reviews existing literature on middle managers in the context of organisational change. This is followed by an overview of the particular...

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Career advancement in Australian middle managers : A follow-up study

Wood, Glenice - 2006

Purpose - The current study followed up middle managers who had participated in a survey on attitudes to promotion in 1996. The vast majority of the original sample had responded favourably to the question: "Do you want to obtain a senior management position during your managerial career?" In...

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ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND METHODOLOGICAL COMPETENCES. Are there differences within methodological competences needed for thinking and used for work method and style based...

SZABÓ, Lajos; CSEPREGI, Anikó - In: Management & Marketing 8 (2013) Special-Issue, pp. 353-362

An empirical survey, which has been conducted since 2007 in Hungary, has aimed to investigate middle managers working at mediumand large-sized enterprises in Hungary by a questionnaire. One part of the survey answers have been analysed by using Principal Component Analysis and seven different...

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Liderazgo de servicio de los mandos intermedios

Duncan, Lescano; Roberto, Lucio - In: Cuadernos de Gestión (2011)

[ES] El gran reto de la empresa de servicios en la actualidad es orientarse con mayor precisión a sus clientes y conseguir su satisfacción y lealtad. Si bien el impulso de la innovación, el uso de tecnologías de información, y concretamente la creación de valor son factores decisivos, el...

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Value creation through entrepreneurial activity: A multiple constituency approach

Mair, Johanna - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2002

While both business press and scholarly research largely portray entrepreneurship within well-established companies as inherently good, empirical evidence for positive performance implications based on rigorous research is scarce. This paper empirically assesses whether and for whom...

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The Technological Origins of the High School Movement

Kim, Se-Um - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper argues that the emergence of knowledge hierarchies in the modern U.S. firms since the late 19th century, expedited by huge progress in communication technology, played a significant role in the expansion of mass secondary education called the high school movement in the U.S. in the...

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