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Changes in the market conditions for fruit and vegetables have induced Dutch co-operative auctions to restructure their sales and marketing activities. Nine auctions merged into VTN and established the marketing organisation The Greenery International BV. VTN/The Greenery have encountered many...
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Total Quality Management denotes a path by which – both in a stable and a transitional environment, in a professional … the top management level, on the other. Total Quality Management is a paradigm of business success in the entire world … entire concept of total quality management. Placing customers at the centre is the main idea behind the entire quality …
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maintain the adequate balance of resources between various management levels to respond to the conflicting interests of these …
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The article formulates the information theory of firm, introduces the concept of firm as an operating system, which …
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Japan's prolonged economic problems are due to more than faulty macro-economic policies. We do not deny the importance of bungled macro-economic policy, but argue that deeper maladies in Japanese corporate governance made that country increasingly vulnerable to such problems.
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We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and … across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and decentralization not … only between countries, but also especially within countries. Much of the poorer average management quality in countries …
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In this study, we focus on firms that are listed on foreign exchanges from six countries: France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands and U.K. to provide some insights into the following questions: (1) what are the major perceived costs and benefits of foreign listing? (2) What are the...
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Over the past 25 years a number of accounting and finance studies have examined the usefulness of accounting data in predicting financial distress. This study adapts the approach of these studies to the task of prediction of chief executive officer (CEO) turnover in large U.S. firms. The results...
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Strategy and management are becoming priorities for the survival and growth of Italian Cultural Firms. After a decade …
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commercial bank in Argentina between 1999 and 2001. Using detailed hand collected data on credit approvals, as well as perceived … reduces the number of complaints the bank receives from its clients. Alternative explanations and several tests are … that delegation of authority increases managerial effort not only because management spends less time reporting to bosses …
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