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Berkshire Hathaway, among history's largest and most successful corporations, shuns middlemen; its chairman, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, excoriates financial intermediaries. The acquisitive conglomerate rarely borrows money, retains brokers, or hires consultants. Its governance is...
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This essay on Corporations is a chapter in an upcoming volume on economic theology edited by Stefan Schwarzkopf.The secular study of corporations has long regularly focused on three sets of concerns: (1) Is the idea of corporate “personhood” only a convenient shorthand for a complex set of...
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The system of beliefs and values, that shaped the model for management and organizations during the 20th century, is … satisfaction a new model is needed. In this paper, we will propose that both Management by Instructions (MBI) and Management by … Objectives (MBO) today give notoriously inadequate results. By contrast, description of a new approach labeled: Management by …
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The author’s main aim is to identify the factors with major influence on the organizational culture and on the cultural climate of the Romanian metallurgic companies which are in the process of European integration. The analysis was based on direct observations regarding the organizational...
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The purpose of this review is to evaluate the status of scholarly research on Japanese management as it is applied … outside Japan. The first part of the review deals with the concept of Japanese management. The second part aims at … understanding how Japanese management is applied in foreign countries, both at subsidiaries of Japanese corporations and in non …
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management boards has hardly changed at all in the last few years. It remains to be seen whether the plan to gradually increase … the number of women in management positions, as agreed upon in the German government's 2009 Coalition Agreement, will have … virtually unchanged gender composition of top management in large private-sector companies. …
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Vorstände und Aufsichtsräte großer Unternehmen in Deutschland werden nach wie vor von Männern dominiert - mit erdrückender Mehrheit. Das zeigt die aktuelle Studie des DIW Berlin. Lediglich 2,5 Prozent aller Vorstandsmitglieder der 200 größten Unternehmen (ohne Finanzsektor) sind...
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Nach wie vor sind die Vorstandsposten der größten 200 Unternehmen Deutschlands nahezu ausschließlich mit Männern besetzt. Frauen nahmen 2010 nur 3,2 Prozent der Vorstandssitze ein. Diesen geringen Anteilswert unterschreiten die größten 100 Unternehmen und die DAX30-Unternehmen mit 2,2...
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Trotz Fusionen und Finanzkrise hat sich im Finanzsektor wenig geändert: Der Frauenanteil in den Spitzengremien der großen Banken und Versicherungen in Deutschland blieb auch 2010 auf einem extrem niedrigen Niveau. Innovationspotentiale, die sich aus einer deutlichen Erhöhung des Frauenanteils...
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