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Berkshire's disintermediation: Buffett's New Managerial Model
Cunningham, Lawrwence A. - 2015
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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An empirical study on paths of creating harmonious corporate culture
Song, Lianke; Mayer, Bernt - 2010
Creating harmonious corporate culture has been a new issue in present day society. Many scholars studied paths of creating harmonious corporate culture but nobody used quantitative methods. This study collected 205 valid questionnaires and held 12 study meetings to find the paths of creating...
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Transforming organizational culture amidst a diverse workforce: a qualitative study in the service industry
Weber, Gunilla; Martensen, Malte - 2021
. HealthIA's leaders were identified as a crucial component of cultural change and are suggested to be empathetic, encouraging …
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Corporate purpose and financial performance
Gartenberg, Claudine; Prat, Andrea; Serafeim, George - 2016
performance. However, high purpose firms come in two forms: firms characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms … higher future accounting and stock market performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation … of their organization and the clarity in the path towards that purpose experience better performance …
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How institutions moderate the effect of gender diversity on firm performance
Hoch, Felix; Seyberth, Lilo - 2021
Research investigating the relationship between firm performance and gender diversity has so far reported conflicting … evidence: Some studies find firm performance to benefit from gender diversity, others find negative results or no effect at all …. Taking this inconclusive evidence as a sign for moderators influencing the effect of gender diversity on firm performance, we …
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Chancen und Risiken von CSR im Mittelstand
Icks, Annette; Levering, Britta; Maaß, Frank; Werner, Arndt - 2015
Die Studie erörtert Chancen und Risiken, die mit der Anwendung der Unternehmensführungsstrategie CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) verbunden sind. Eine Vielzahl an Gefahren in CSR-aktiven Unternehmen - darunter das Risiko des Greenwashings - werden identifiziert, systematisiert und...
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Konzepte und Wirkungen nachhaltigen Unternehmertums
Maaß, Frank; Chlosta, Simone; Icks, Annette; Welter, … - 2014
Betriebliches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement zielt auf einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Ressourcen und auf die entsprechende Gestaltung der innerbetrieblichen Abläufe ab. Dabei nutzen Unternehmen, die nachhaltiges Wirtschaften mit strategischen Zielen verbinden und hierbei über das gesetzlich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256257
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How institutions moderate the effect of gender diversity on firm performance
Hoch, Felix; Seyberth, Lilo - 2021
Research investigating the relationship between firm performance and gender diversity has so far reported conflicting … evidence: Some studies find firm performance to benefit from gender diversity, others find negative results or no effect at all …. Taking this inconclusive evidence as a sign for moderators influencing the effect of gender diversity on firm performance, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012693903
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Transforming organizational culture amidst a diverse workforce: A qualitative study in the service industry
Weber, Gunilla; Martensen, Malte - 2021
. HealthIA's leaders were identified as a crucial component of cultural change and are suggested to be empathetic, encouraging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437158
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Kulturunterschiede bei Mergers & Acquisitions : Entwicklung eines Konzeptes zur Durchführung einer Cultural Due Diligence
Stumpf-Wollersheim, Jutta (contributor);  … - 2008
Several investigations came to the conclusion that, considering in retrospect, most Mergers & Acquisitions were not successful. Differences in the corporate cultures are often quoted as being responsible for the failures. So, the question arises how such failures can be prevented in future....
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