In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein Modell zur Verteilten Führung in Teams operationalisiert und validiert. Dabei wird angenommen, dass Führung verteilt auf die drei Instanzen der strukturellen, der interaktionalen und der teambasierten Führung ausgeübt wird. Die drei Führungsgruppen werden...

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...

Water resources around the globe are at risk from expanding demand and decreasedavailability. All sectors of society rely on water for operation – agriculture, industry, powergeneration, and domestic users all require a constant, clean supply. As a result of populationgrowth and environmental...

The spirit of the Global Compact found fertile ground and has become an integral part of Novartis corporate strategy since the enterprise was formed by the merger of the two large Swiss pharmaceutical companies, Sandoz and Ciba, in 1996. Following a four-year concentration on economic...

The relationships between risk and performance were tested employing within and between analyses at the level of strategic groups in three different industries. As hypothesized, systematic risk did not exhibit a consistent relationship with performance. By contrast, all of the total...

During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "From Computer Literacy to Information Literacy" he discusses information systems and how they impact individual enterprises and workers. During his lecture, he talks about: the changing labor force, organization structure, command and control structure,...

Accountable Care Organizations are developing in the United States as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A study is needed to evaluate an emerging issue of ACOs, quality improvement infrastructure, and the pharmaceutical industry. The convergence of these topics has not...

This dissertation examines the evolution of the market and the firms in the context of an emerging innovative race in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. The history shows the existence of two distinct industry regimes. Before 1940, the industry can best be characterized as a competitive regime in...