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The paper assesses the ability of French wineries to prevail over the crisis of French wine in the years 2000.Corporations are distinguished from co‐operatives:Over the 2000‐2006 period in spite of sales fluctuations, French wineries did not increase their financial debtlevel substantially....
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corporate strategy and corporate structure variables are either direct or indirect causes of corporate accounting performance …. Generally, results supports the relational model: corporate structure® corporate strategy® corporate performance. Ownership …This research explored the causal relationships among strategies, corporate structure, and performance of the largest U …
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includes competitive strategy and reactions, market restrictions particularly in land-use planning, and unwillingness by Asda … (Wal-Mart) to alter their focused store format strategy in line with competitor actions and market directions … explanations for the relative (lack of) performance. The conclusion, that Asda has not been as successful as reported in the …
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the extant literature and drawing on the dynamic capabilities view of competitive strategy, this paper presents a …
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We explore problems involving the measurement of the performance of a system. We outline two systemic approaches that … involving performance measurement are considered and discussed: (a) Checkland’s systems ideas of ‘managing and controlling’ a … system throughout a set of three measures of performance: efficacy, efficiency and effectiveness; and (b) Beer’s concepts of …
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.The absence of risk control and risk management can be destructive towards overallbusiness performance. Management skills are … in maximising Information Systems (IS) that must bealigned with the overall organisational strategy. Strategy …, performance andsustainability are inseparable assets of any organisation. IT governance perceived byorganisations as important …
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stable development stage. In this stage, the issueof business strategy and performance measurement, often neglected during …. This study helps to fill this gap by investigatingperformance measurement and business strategy of Internet retailing … business, and their significance in enhancing business performance. A mail questionnaire wasused in a survey of UK Internet …
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with these discuss ion, empirical studies of innovative performance among Chinese firms are also analysed. The results show … that in fact most Chinese firms still follow an imitative strategy, but there is a clear evidence of strategic cost …
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At micro-economic level, the business evolution of a firm is influenced by the type of strategy which is put into …
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The management of managers is an important contemporary concern, but the literature on the issue is not well integrated. This paper reviews key sources on the topic across organizational economics, human resource development and strategic human resource management. It presents a novel...
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