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A decision support tool for optimising the use of offsite technologies in housebuilding
Pan, Wei - 2006
housebuilders contribute nearly 90% to the housing unit completions by the industry overall. This thesis aims to provide a strategy …
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Analysing strategic decision-making in an environment with high rates of change : a model for leaders of organisations
Weilert, Heinz Maria - 2011
the flexibility required to succeed in dynamicenvironments. Strategy formation in this thesis deals with the concepts ….Chapter 3 provides insight to organisational order, which emerges from the interplay between‘strategy formation’ as a deliberate … strategies. Theprocess of strategy formation provides opportunity for self-reflection by the decision-makers(the I), the team …
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Incremental entrepreneurship : best practice professionalization across generations
Morris, Mervyn J. - 2011
This chapter will introduce Australia’s Dennis family – a case of ‘incremental entrepreneurship’ in the business transition from the first to the second generation. Following the second generation’s formal involvement and ownership in the business, Dennis Family Corporation (DFC)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438212
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Factors that influence positive succession outcomes and longevity in long-lasting Australian family enterprises
Scotland, Anthony John - 2010
beyond two generations and are thriving. What has allowed these companies to achieve positive succession outcomes and greater … have been identified that contribute to positive succession outcomes and greater longevity: The ability of the outgoing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475282
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Corporate Venturing in Family Business: The Effects on the Family and Its Members
Marchisio, Gaia; Mazzola, Pietro; Sciascia, S.; Miles, M.; … - 2010
effects at the family and individual levels depending on four moderating factors. At the individual level, if a succession … affective commitment of NGFMs to the core business and such a risk appears to be higher when CV participation in the FB strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459002
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Three essays on family structure and school dropout among adolescents
Farivar, Leila - 2010
This dissertation is a collection of three essays on high school dropout by adolescents and the roll of their siblings in this risky behavior. Dropping out of high school can scar the individual for his entire labor supply period with lower earnings, higher unemployment, and in turn incur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477832
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The concealed difficulties of aligning CRE decisions to corporate goals
Tonelli, Marcello - 2006
Realisation of the importance of real estate asset strategic decision making has inspired a burgeoning corporate real estate management (CREM) literature. Much of this criticises the poor alignment between strategic business direction and the ‘enabling’ physical environment. This is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437834
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Developing a multi-dimensional scale for ethical decision making: the managerial ethical profile (MEP)
Casali, Gian Luca - 2009
This article describes the development and validation of a multi-dimensional scale for measuring managers’ perceptions of the range of factors that routinely guide their decision-making processes. An instrument for identifying managerial ethical profiles (MEP) is developed by measuring the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437860
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Setting hospital infection control policy : a decision-making framework incorporating health economics and healthcare epidemiology
Halton, Kate Amanda - 2009
healthcare resources? 2. What is the optimal infection control strategy from amongst the two major approaches that have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437871
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Dashboards adoption in the business controller’s decision making process
Yigitbasioglu, Ogan; Velcu, Oana - 2011
There has been discussion whether corporate decision-making can be helped by decision support systems regarding qualitative aspects of decision making (e.g. trouble shooting)(Löf and Möller, 2003). Intelligent decision support systems have been developed to help business controllers to perform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438005