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pressures affect managers in a local government body. Design/methodology/approach – By means of semi‐structured interviews with … four managers and a councillor at a major city council in NZ, the authors elicit a better understanding of the process of …. Community consultation was regarded to be beneficial because it encouraged managers to be people‐oriented and reduced …
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Presents brief results of a study into factors that successful managers use to increase productivity in the UK and USA …
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, suggesting that managers can use the technique to improve team performance in appropriate circumstances.  …
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Across Europe organizations in industry and education are grappling with the problem of identifying and developing the “competent international manager” who has the skills and abilities appropriate to the changing demands of a new business era. These organizations share one thing in common...
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Describes the results of a survey which shows that there is a gap between managers’ understanding of the importance of …
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Purpose The study draws on the resource-based view and the contingency view of strategy. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to international strategy literature by extending the current understanding of foreign subsidiary’s competitive strategy in terms of cost leadership and product...
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studies. Practical implications The result has implications for managers of multinational firms to understand which factors … most impact the success of their foreign subsidiaries during times of economic crisis. In this way, managers can, with …
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Purpose – There is a lack of research on how the industrial firm's international strategy is associated with basic and advanced value-adding modes of the wholly owned foreign subsidiary. The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap by answering two questions: how are relatedness between the...
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SROI study. The case analysis centers on four key decision points in the implementation of the SROI study: identification … focal organization, the SROI calculation can vary widely depending on the outcome of the four decision points delineated …
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. This paper attempts to capture a practical framework for CRE managers to evaluate changes to the core business and …
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