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Key success factors of strategic sourcing

Chan, Tony C.T.; Chin, Kwai‐Sang - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 107 (2007) 9, pp. 1391-1416

Purpose – This research aims to identify and examine the importance of the key success factors (KSFs) of strategic sourcing, and investigate the relationship between KSFs and sourcing performance in the Hong Kong toy industry. The KSFs are ranked, and the results show those factors that should...

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Quality management, strategic priorities and performance: the role of quality leadership

Albacete‐Sáez, Carlos A.; Mar Fuentes‐Fuentes, Maria; … - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 111 (2011) 8, pp. 1173-1193

indisputable consensus on the relevance of leadership and the commitment of top management to the success of QM, but few studies …

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Information technology‐enabled quality performance: an exploratory study

Perez‐Arostegui, María N.; Benitez‐Amado, Jose; … - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 112 (2012) 3, pp. 502-518

of leadership practice on this relationship must be analyzed. Design/methodology/approach – A proposed research model is … performance – rather, one needs complementarity with leadership; and the impact of IT dimensions on quality performance will be … greater in the presence of leadership practice. Practical implications – Managers must be aware that the impact of IT on …

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Lessons from Project Disasters

Kharbanda, Om P.; Stallworthy, Ernest A. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 92 (1992) 3, pp. 2-46

In the continuing endeavour to work towards ever better management, experience plays a crucial role. We learn from success, but we can learn much more from failure. Further, it is far better and cheaper when we learn from other people′s failures rather than our own. This monograph assesses the...

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Gorbachev, Perestroika and Democratizing Socialism

Elliott, John E.; Dowlah, A.F. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 10, pp. 73-115

Examines Gorbachev′s (1985‐1991) period of Soviet development as an exemplar of a self‐declared movement towards a more democratic and humane socialism. Gorbachev′s perestroika envisaged a fundamental structural and technological renovation of Soviet economy, reactivation of Soviet...

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Performance and Relative Incentive Pay: The Role of Social Preferences

Hernandez, Pablo; Minor, Dylan B.; Sisak, Dana - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Under relative performance pay, other-regarding workers internalize the negative externality they impose on other workers. In one form -increased own effort reduces others' payoffs- this results in other-regarding individuals depressing efforts. In another form punishment reduces the payoff of...

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Features and Management Team Project

Alina, BREZOI; Roxana, ENACHE - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series X (2010) 1, pp. 234-237

For a project, whatever its characteristics, to be effective should be based on a team. Although designed as a team, especially team projects implemented and monitored easily become reality. Regarding the management team should be good first identifying problems that arise during the project, to...

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Competency vs. and Morality – an Effective Approach to Leadership

Liliana, Maruntelu; Elena, Dumitrascu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series X (2010) 1, pp. 1132-1136

leadership development. It examines the impetus for this structure becoming the existing theoretical base for developing leaders … appropriate tool in leadership development across many organisations, despite the existence of these tools in those organisations … leadership development. …

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Leadership in Opposition to Facilitating Change for the Romanian Organizations

Ramona, LILE; Silvia, HANGANU - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series X (2010) 1, pp. 1102-1106

One of the most important roles of the Organizational Change expert is based upon his or her expertise in the process of change itself. The Organizational Change expert must be able to coach and educate senior managers in how the process of change takes place in Romanian organizations. Change is...

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Jokowi’s Populism in the 2012 Jakarta Gubernatorial Election

Hamid, Abdul - In: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 33 (2014) 1, pp. 85-109

. Populism can help explain Jokowi’s victory in the election, but also the leadership of his administration after he was elected. …

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