Showing 1 - 10 of 13
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss a trend in business strategy thinking which has been detrimental to the continuity of organizations, so that managers will reevaluate where they should aim their efforts at in respect to improving their organizations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014689353
Purpose Many businesses in the world are family-owned. A family-owned business differs from other types of businesses in several ways, because it is composed of both a family and a business. A recurring question in management research has been: which type of business performs better, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014865072
Purpose The academic and management literature offers an abundance of techniques for helping organizations improve their performance. Generally, though, these techniques have not been subjected to rigorous, evidence-based evaluation or have been tested in practice over time. The purpose of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014840210
Purpose – In the past few decades, organizations all over the world have been searching for the elements that constitute continuous organizational success. Fuelled by bestsellers such as In Search of Excellence and Good to Great , managers have implemented many different improvement concepts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014788206
Purpose – The ongoing debate about the effects of bonuses on managers’ performance and the role of reward systems in organizations has still not led to a unanimous conclusion among academics and practitioners. Those in favor of bonuses state that applying bonuses and putting emphasis on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014712803
Purpose – Interest in creating high performance organizations (HPOs) has been growing in the Middle East and Middle Eastern managers have been looking into practices that will help them elevate organizational performance. Unfortunately there is a shortage of HPO studies conducted in the Middle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014714820
Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to identify the factors that determine the continuous success of a high performance organization (HPO) in Asia and to apply these at a case company. In the past few decades organizations all over the world have been searching for the elements that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014930739
Purpose An important question in contemporary research is: do certain management practices cause better performance or do better performing organizations find it easier to adopt certain management practices? This question is also of importance when applying the high performance organization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014952401
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772865
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594882