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Typologies: What types of foreign executives are appointed by local organisations and what types of organisations appoint them?

Arp, Frithjof - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 27 (2013) 3, pp. 167-194

Current issues in international human resource management include global careers that differ from traditional expatriate assignments. A number of foreign executives have in recent years been appointed to positions in the headquarter operations of culturally distant organisations. These...

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EXPLORING AN EMERGING FIELD: THE IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBAL SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

KIM, Hyuk - In: Management and Marketing Journal XII (2014) 1, pp. 14-30

This paper aims to advance the empirical understanding of global social entrepreneurship. Specifically, this paper aims to provide a new social entrepreneurship model, particularly on a global scale, introducing and examining two distinctive cases: Ashoka and Bangladesh Rural Advancement...

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A Descriptive Account of an Inter-Professional Collaborative Leadership Project

MacPhee, Maura; Chang, Li-Lu; Havaei, Farinaz; Chou, … - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 3, pp. 373-399

A collaborative project between an academic healthcare faculty and a professional development director resulted in the design, delivery and evaluation of an inter-professional collaborative leadership workshop with ongoing leadership development activities. The workshop attendees were five...

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Extending the Individual Level of Virtuality: Implications of Task Virtuality in Virtual and Traditional Settings

Orhan, Mehmet A. - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 4, pp. 400-412

been impacted. Today, even employees in traditional team settings use electronic communication tools to work with multiple …

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Knowledge Transfer to the Subsidiaries: A Case Study of Multinational Enterprise Operating in Overseas

Jos¨¦ Moleiro Martins - In: Review of Economics & Finance 1 (2011) August, pp. 74-84

The business opportunities in Southern Africa have justified any effort to learn more about the phenomenon of the transfer of knowledge to the local subsidiaries. We studied four cases with activities in the industrial sector. The results obtained indicate that an efficient transfer of knowledge...

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Business Contingency, Strategy Formation, and Firm Performance: An Empirical Study of Chinese Apparel SMEs

Chi, Ting - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 27-45

This study empirically investigated how small and medium-sized Chinese apparel enterprises (SME) formed their strategy … environment-strategy-performance model was proposed and tested. Using primary data gathered by a questionnaire survey of the … differences in strategy responses to environment between high- and low-performing firms were striking. Confronting an increasingly …

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Understanding Cultural Difference Management through Charles Taylor’s Philosophy: Case Studies from the Food Processing Industry

Ouellet, Samuel Marleau; Facal, Joseph; Hébert, Louis - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 46-70

intuitive and emergent. These practices were not crystallized in the form of a conscious and deliberate organizational strategy …

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Is the Asset Transfer of Public Leisure Facilities in England an Example of Associative Democracy?

Nichols, Geoff; Forbes, Deborah; Findlay-King, Lindsay; … - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 71-87

In England, public sports facilities and libraries provided by local government are being transferred to management and delivery by volunteers. The catalyst for this development has been reductions in local government budgets. However, case studies explore if this asset transfer “offers a way...

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Cultural distances and its association to time spent on conflicts

Dirrler, Phyllis; Podruzsik, Szilard - In: Foundations of Management : the journal of Warsaw … 15 (2023) 1, pp. 63-78

Conflict costs can be used to determine conflict outcomes and can be measured among others in terms of lost time. So far, no study has investigated the effects of cultural distances on conflict costs. Our study tries to add new findings by investigating the influence of cultural distances on...

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Conflict costs in national and international business : a comparative analysis

Dirrler, Phyllis; Podruzsik, Szilard - In: Foundations of Management : the journal of Warsaw … 15 (2023) 1, pp. 209-224

Studies presented the importance of conflict costs. Cultural diversity adds more complexity to working groups, fostering conflict. The aim of this research is to investigate how cultural diversity affects conflict costs, measured in terms of lost time & cost amplifiers. Data was collected...

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