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Explores the impact of cross‐cultural differences on the facilitating effects of corporate culture on the implementation of total quality management (TQM). Measures corporate culture using the competing values model pioneered by Quinn and Rohrbaugh. Measures implementation levels of TQM using...
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practices. In their place, a “symmetrical ethnology” is proposed. Research limitations/implications More reflective use of …
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cooperative banks by examining other variables that have never been used before. It also seeks to examine bank performance before … cost efficiency; and cooperative banks in general at the beginning of the crisis were less influenced by the economic …
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), along with various forward contracts offered to cooperative members to manage the variability of milk revenues, have the … potential to improve cooperative‐, and ultimately member‐level risk‐return performance. Because most cooperatives have limited … access to equity capital, effective use of available risk management tools can increase cooperative value by increasing debt …
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/methodology/approach This paper shows what followed from a decision of a researcher to do an ethnography of a co-working cooperative established … despite its failure in the form of a bankruptcy, the co-working cooperative succeeded in enabling “social innovation” in the …
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in the north-west of England, a small food cooperative run by volunteers. Social capital comprises the bonds, bridges and … interactions between and within the three main stakeholder groups involved in the cooperative is presented. This model shows how …
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Abstract Auf der Basis eines Datensatzes über mittelständische Unternehmen in Deutschland werden Zusammenhänge zwischen flexibilisierten Arbeitsvertragsgestaltungen und Betriebsmerkmalen untersucht. Zudem werden Befristung und Leiharbeit im Lichte der Kombination von Arbeits- und...
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article examines factors for an increased feeling of stress and exhaustion of‘ change managers", using a sample of 133 …
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implemented — and more importantly, how they were used by managers at different levels of management. Three different companies …. All had differences in ownership and education level of managers. Implementation (technical) details are omitted, but this … paper shows that managers do not always see what business intelligence can do. Furthermore, it is shown that such projects …
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The antecedents of Nigerian financial industries in the past few decades call for a deeper understanding of the sector vis-à-vis ethical practice. Importantly, the revolution in the sector in the early 1990s birthed an industry that resolutely shifted practice from “armchair” marketing to...
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