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How effective are senior managers in the Romanian public sector?
Analoui, Farhad - In: Journal of Management Development 16 (1997) 7, pp. 502-516
topic has remained relatively unexplored, especially so far as the effectiveness of the senior managers and officials is … managers are aware of the needs for their own and others’ effectiveness and desire for development, and that the presence of … of the senior managers is concerned. Concludes that effectiveness should be defined as functions of awareness of self and …
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Organisational culture in a transitional economy
Câmpeanu‐Sonea, Eugenia; Borza, Anca; Sonea, Adrian; … - In: Employee Relations 32 (2010) 3, pp. 328-344
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on organisational change in Romania at the beginning of the twenty … profile in Romania. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on two types of questionnaires, one for the regular … employees of the firm and one for the managers, and questions were formulated, using the experiences of those who actually work …
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Behavioural indicators of perceived managerial and leadership effectiveness within Romanian and British public sector hospitals
Hamlin, Robert G.; Patel, Taran - In: European Journal of Training and Development 36 (2012) 2/3, pp. 234-261
and develop effective managers and leaders within the health services sector of Romania and the United Kingdom …. The relevance and transferability of the findings to other public sector hospitals in Romania have yet to be demonstrated …
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A cross‐cultural study of the differing effects of corporate culture on TQM in three countries
Sousa‐Poza, Andres; Nystrom, Halvard; Wiebe, Henry - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 18 (2001) 7, pp. 744-761
Explores the impact of cross‐cultural differences on the facilitating effects of corporate culture on the implementation of total quality management (TQM). Measures corporate culture using the competing values model pioneered by Quinn and Rohrbaugh. Measures implementation levels of TQM using...
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Jurisprudent Shift in China: A Functional Interpretation
Qiao, Cong-rui - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 8 (2017) 1
Abstract In light of the limitation of normative narratives of Chinese jurisprudence, this article proposes a functional interpretation of how the law evolved in China and how the jurisprudence was formalized to cope with major social challenges in the society. Through an examination on...
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The Market as an Environment
Viskovatoff, Alex - In: Journal des �conomistes et des �tudes Humaines 14 (2004) 2
More than perhaps any other major social theorist, Niklas Luhmann adopted a perspective on society at the opposite end of the atomistic-holistic spectrum to that of mainstream economics. While the position of mainstream economics is that society is nothing more than a collection of individuals,...
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The Transformation of Kosovar Holidays between Socialism, War and Migration. A Biographical Approach
Pagenstecher, Cord - In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 9 (2017) 1, pp. 141-156
Abstract This paper studies the transformative character of tourism and travel for a small, but multi-facetted example: Kosovo is a post-socialist transformation society and a post-war country in the process of nation building, a developing country within Europe and a transnational migration...
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Bismarck and the social question
van Meerhaeghe, Marcel - In: Journal of Economic Studies 33 (2006) 4, pp. 284-301
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the work of Bismarck in relation to social legislation. Design/methodology/approach – Bismarck's points of views are sketched mainly through quotations from his speeches in Parliament. His position regarding social protection is discussed and...
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On the Socialist Market System and its Model
Wen Xian, Zhang - In: International Journal of Social Economics 16 (1989) 2, pp. 54-58
It is argued that a unified socialist market should be a solid, full‐view market, and that whether the market system is complete or not has an important effect on the development of a commodity economy. Thus it is required of the socialist commodity economy that in order to promote a complete...
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On the Problems of the Chinese Economic Reformation
Wenyuan, Yong - In: International Journal of Social Economics 18 (1991) 8/9/10, pp. 67-74
The article discusses the hidden contradictions and the theoretical problems in economic reform. It argues that a new operational model of the socialist economy will be established in China. Its fundamental characteristics are multi‐ownership structures with public ownership as its main body,...
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