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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the implementation of a defined competitive strategy – differentiation or cost leadership – brings about different value creation levels, where “value” is defined in a twofold perspective as “shareholder value” vs...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study management processes within successful societal entrepreneurship to … further understand the role of management in customer value creation. Design/methodology/approach Management in three … observation, participant observation and documentation. Management tasks, activities and behaviours have been identified and …
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Aims to measure the differences which may exist between a number of team aspects for groups working on projects with …. Measures team characteristics and their perceived value to team members using self‐report questionnaires. Analyses the primary … data obtained using statistical means. The findings show that team members did perceive differences in about half of the …
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Based on recently proposed principles of total quality management (TQM), takes a system‐oriented perspective with … regard to the design of performance management systems in organizations. The underlying premiss of this orientation is that …
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through the development of team‐oriented human resource management (HRM) practices. Develops a conceptual model on how HRM … reports of how Japanese plants in the USA use team‐oriented HRM policies to control product quality.  …
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and middle management teamwork are the key to achieving these dual objectives.  … senior and middle‐level managers were interviewed face to face. In both countries, common problems confront management which … developing completely new products, and (2) efficient and speedy development work. It is argued that top management involvement …
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A case analysis of training for managers using two published videos, a teamwork video and a leadership video is …
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Posits that while team development has become fashionable managers are often uncertain about its value to their … and answers are supported by case studies and examples. Outlines the benefits of team development initiatives for major … various problems and pitfalls and ways of overcoming these difficulties, and details a team development process for those …
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from adopting team approaches to school management. It suggests there are several critical issues schools, as organisations … responsibilities now fall often into the domain of groups of staff. But have schools given sufficient thought to what teamwork involves …, must address if they are to enable effective teamwork to take place. Without the right form of support, it is argued that …
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determine their overall examination of leadership in teams and to identify which models of teamwork and leadership have been …. Findings – Sixty per cent of the papers studied explored a group of workers whose teamwork was expected to be permanent, which … teamwork and leadership is minimal. Research limitations/implications – This particular research utilized the latent coding …
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