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Capability Evolution and a Replication Strategy: Stimulating Middle Management Knowledge Search Routines and Architecture Competences
Tippmann, Esther; Scott, Pamela Sharkey; Mangematin, Vincent - HAL - 2012
detailed investigation of middle managers' knowledge search routines in Gamma, a leading ICT multinational corporation (MNC … such mechanisms in facilitating a more efficient search and leverage of existing solutions, knowledge search routines are … revealing the importance of architecture competences in developing solutions that renew routines and how these competences can …
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Fading memories of the future : the dissipation of strategic foresight among middle managers
Sarpong, David; Hartman, Daniël - In: Technology analysis & strategic management 30 (2018) 6, pp. 672-683
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Effects of nondiscretionary trading on futures prices
O'Neill, Michael J.; Whaley, Robert E. - In: The journal of futures markets 43 (2023) 1, pp. 33-68
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Sub-Replication and Replenishing Premium: Efficient Pricing of Multi-State Lookbacks
Wong, Hoi; Kwok, Yue - In: Review of Derivatives Research 6 (2003) 2, pp. 83-106
The direct valuation procedure of performing discounted expectation to obtain the prices of multi-state lookback options may lead to insurmountable complexity and numerical difficulties. The computation may require numerical differentiation of the joint distribution function of the extremum...
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Gender difference in the conative component of entrepreneurial orientation
Bertoncelj, Andrej; Kovaéc, Darko - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 14 (2009) 4, pp. 357-368
The aim of this paper is to investigate the question of gender difference in the entrepreneurial orientation of managers in the post-transition economy of Slovenia. The concept of intervening variables as parts of the conative components of entrepreneurial orientation is introduced and gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322896
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Organizational Characteristics and Social Competences: Are there differences within social competences connected with communication and co-operational skills based on the character...
Gaál, Zoltán; Szabó, Lajos; Csepregi, Anikó - In: The International Journal of Management Science and … (2013) 10-(Dec), pp. 176-193
An empirical survey aiming to investigate middle managers working at medium- and large-sized enterprises in Hungary has been conducted since 2007. Its purpose has been to reveal the competences these middle managers find important for knowledge sharing and to discover the characteristics that...
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HRM devolution to middle managers: Dimension identification
Cascón-Pereira, Rosalía; Valverde, Mireia - In: BRQ Business Research Quarterly 17 (2014) 3, pp. 149-160
The phenomenon of devolution, or transfer of human resource management (HRM) responsibilities to middle managers (MM) has mainly been studied and measured as a homogeneous and unidimensional phenomenon. However, the variations found in the literature suggest that this key HR concept may be of a...
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A critical evaluation of first line managers' perceptions of organisational change at Sanlam
Noemdo, Leon Abraham - 2009
A quantitative research study was conducted in order to obtain insight and knowledge of the perceptions of management with regard to changes taking place within the Financial Services Sector (FSS). The call centre at Sanlam Head Office in Bellville was used as a case study, and focus was...
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The paradox of managerial downsizing
Littler, Craig R.; Innes, Peter - 2004
Delayering and the flattening of organizational hierarchies was a widespread trend through the 1990s. Peters (1992) in the USA promoted flattening as an organizational strategy and Keuning and Opheij (1994) promoted the prescriptions in Europe. Despite these strategies and apparent structural...
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Middle Management In An Era Of Corporate Restructuring: A Case Study Of Retailing
Bramble, Thomas; Parry, Ken; O'Brien, Elizabeth - 1996
This article reports on the impact of corporate restructuring on middle management at Australia's largest specialty retailer. The first section reviews existing literature on middle managers in the context of organisational change. This is followed by an overview of the particular...
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