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Institutional history is important in the context of understanding the control of pension systems. This history has …
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) perspective. Building on the results of previous studies that indicate, directly or indirectly, the importance of control in … staffing, the paper proposes that strategic control may be a critical driver that underpins IJV staffing. In conclusion, the …
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performing ventures. “Illusion of control” and “satisficing” theories were used to explain the individuals’ implicit paradigms.  …
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The early decades of the twentieth century witnessed a significant transformation in managerial control practices … store operations as inventory valuation, credit control and overhead expense allocation. Traditional positions of power were …
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Purpose – The study aims at clarifying whether locus of control may act as a bias in organisational decision‐making or …) participated in the study. They were asked to complete a booklet including a locus of control test and a couple of decision tasks …‐making. Findings – The results revealed that managers with low external locus of control used group consultative decision‐making more …
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control procedures. The internal co‐operation necessary in the purchasing/operations interface under JIT facilitates …
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Chaos theory is about to invade the thinking and vocabulary of practising managers and management academics. It will mark the major breakthrough in the 1990s, just as systems theory represented the great step forward three decades ago. Indeed, it may be regarded as a natural extension of systems...
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Illustrates how organizational culture can stifle effective problem solving and decision making. In the organization in question this had critical implications for quality, staff retention and organizational change. The myopic, non‐innovative generation of apparent solutions to major...
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number of hypothesized relationships between IT performance and company′s control, governance and managerial characteristics …
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management decision making is quite enormous. Illustrates an application in the marketing control process. The example … illustration can be expanded and developed to provide a control mechanism which enables the user to have a better chance of …
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