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The meanings of social entrepreneurship today

Roper, Juliet; Cheney, George - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 5 (2005) 3, pp. 95-104

Purpose – Aims to explore the historical development and current usages of the concept of social entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach – The paper first examines the socio‐political conditions leading to business repositioning in the traditionally governmental role of catering to...

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Quasi‐privatisation and corporate governance: a process perspective

Mador, Martha; Springdal, Kent; Dixon, Sarah - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 8 (2008) 5, pp. 595-606

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the usefulness and relevance of a four stage model of privatisation, based in institutional theory, to quasi‐privatised organisations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper studies a UK organisation with changing ownership, governance,...

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Business communication during cultural change

Borgulya, Ágnes - In: Corporate Communications: An International Journal 5 (2000) 4, pp. 181-185

Business and corporate culture in Hungary are undergoing a profound change. Although the first phase of transition to the market economy is complete, great efforts are still needed to bring the country – and business in general – to the point of readiness to join the EU. Legislative...

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Aviation organization flies high as technical staff learn commercial skills

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 21 (2013) 7, pp. 23-24

Purpose – Reveals that technical staff who used to be a breed apart from sales teams are finding that their roles have increasingly merged at a UK aviation organization as it competes with rivals. Explains that training is helping the technical staff to excel in their expanded role....

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Releasing middle management potential: part 1

Dixon, Philippa - In: Executive Development 8 (1995) 5, pp. 23-25

organizations in the UK formed the survey group, and their attitudes towards the process of privatization and the culture change …

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Releasing middle management potential: part 2

Dixon, Philippa - In: Executive Development 8 (1995) 7, pp. 11-13

Outlines some ideas to help companies create a culture which supports middle management development. Ideas are based on research findings among privatized companies and other academic research. Presents a number of recommendations to encourage organizations to re‐evaluate the role of their...

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Service orientation in transitional markets: does it matter?

Lynn, Monty L.; Lytle, Richard S.; Bobek, Samo - In: European Journal of Marketing 34 (2000) 3/4, pp. 279-298

Firms with a strong service orientation – that is, those whose organizational policies, practices, and procedures support service excellence – often have a competitive edge in mature Western markets. In transitional economies, however – such as within the newly opened markets of Central...

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Preliminary reflections on the privatization policy in Nigeria

Etieyibo, Edwin - In: African Journal of Economic and Management Studies 4 (2013) 1, pp. 144-152

Purpose – Like many developing countries, Nigeria embarked on the privatization of many of its state owned enterprises … Nigerian policy on privatization and commercialization, has continued with the exercise. The first phase of the privatization … programme began in 1988 under the Technical Committee on Privatization and Commercialization (TCPC) and ended in 1993, and the …

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RETAILING IN POLAND

Werwicki, Andrzej - In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 20 (1992) 6

control to the restructuring and privatization of retailing. Highlights the new forms of retailing which have accompanied the … privatization process. In particular, the number of retail stores and the types of selling points have changed profoundly although … significant regional differences remain in the progress of the privatization movement and, in consequence, the number and type of …

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RETAILING IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Krasny, Tomas - In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 20 (1992) 6

Reviews the nature of retailing in Czechoslovakia today and seeks to explain the reasons for its present unsatisfactory state. Forty years of central planning removed the developed retail structures which existed in market‐oriented Czechoslovakia between World War I and World War II and...

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