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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia
Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009
sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities … skills will influence the extent to which business sustainability will be achieved. The findings demonstrate that more than …
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Improving Business Performance through Effectively Managing Employees
Poquette, Ross E.L. - 2011
Businesses in today’s highly competitive environment need to be aware of the best methods for motivating, training, developing, and promoting a diverse environment in an organization. These methods will be examined in order to gain an understanding of what works well and how the ideal...
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Relational capital for shared vision in innovation ecosystems
Russell, Martha G.; Huhtamäki, Jukka; Still, Kaisa; … - In: Triple Helix 2 (2015) 1, pp. 1-36
reveal distinct patterns of relational space that structure business ecosystems at the enterprise, growth, and startup levels … business ecosystems. …
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Sustainable supply chains – a framework for best practice assessment: results of the pilot study, BestLog project.
Piotrowicz, Wojciech; Cuthbertson, Richard; Islei, Gerd
This paper presents results of a pilot study completed as part of the BestLog (Best Practices in Logistics) project. BestLog (www.bestlog.org) is a research project initiated by the European Commission (EC) and financed from the 6th Framework Programme. One of the project goals is to identify...
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The impact of high Telecommunications costs on the callcentre industry in Cape Town, South Africa
Ngobeni, Robson Mpande - 2009
This study provides a comprehensive overview of challenges and obstacles that are caused by high telecommunications costs within the callcentre industry in Cape Town, South Africa. This study couldn’t have come at a better time considering the current turbulent economic circumstances around...
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A Model for the Public Sector to Foster Sustainable Business Development
Becker, Brie - 2011
sector can foster sustainable business development through economic development strategies, policies and resources. This … study evaluates the Sustainable Business Initiative (SBI), an economic development initiative intended to strengthen Eugene … business practices. I assess whether the SBI changed business practices in Eugene and whether the SBI can serve as a useful …
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Information internalisation in internationalising the firm
Knight, G. A.; Liesch, P. W. - 2002
Internationalisation occurs when the firm expands its selling, production, or other business activities into …
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Dual paths to performance: the impact of global pressures on MNC subsidiary conduct and performance
Venaik, S.; Midgley, D. F.; Devinney, T. M. - 2005
Over the last decade, the international business literature has placed ever-greater emphasis on the role that learning …
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Systemic absorptive capacity: creating early-to-market returns through R&D alliances
Newey, Lance R.; Shulman, Arthur D. - 2004
For most complex emergent technologies, product-market success depends on efficient linkages between changing lead innovators within the R&D process. In this paper, our unit of analysis is a complex high technology product and the system of alliance linkages formed to progress a product through...
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A post-carbon aviation future: airports and the transition to a cleaner aviation sector
Kivits, Robbert; Charles, Michael B; Ryan, Neal Francis - 2010
There is an increasing global interest in sustainable aviation technologies as a result of concerns associated with the carbon-intensive nature of the industry and the imminence of reaching peak oil. Available options such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen and electric propulsion will not only impact...
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