Management

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120348929Author S. SadagopanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PHI LearningPublisher PHI Learning

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120341562Author Anjan RaichaudhuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.LtdPublisher Prentice-Hall of India Pvt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786202803151Author Pius Masai MwachiFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786200454799Author Mthuthukisi NcubeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

This publication sheds light on how Japan-based German firms dealt with the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in March 2011. To gather data, a questionnaire was developed and sent out in April 2012 to 244 German subsidiaries based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848741199Author Friedrich KleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848730902Author Alexander OeingFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 953g

Rebekka Sputtek sheds light upon the question of how the personality and emotional traits of executives influence their decision making and leadership behavior. While recent strategic management research has started to recognize the relevance of an...

This textbook presents a compendium of important issues that were discussed at the 2nd International Cruise Conference in Plymouth (UK) between the 18th and 20th February 2010. The focus of the conference was to consider emerging issues, problems and...

In general, effective strategic decisions are associated with a step-by-step analysis of information. However, such recommendations are detached from the realities decision makers are faced with, i.e uncertainty of a decision problem, abundance of...

The aim of EUROPEAN RETAIL RESEARCH is to publish interesting manuscripts of high quality and innovativeness with a focus on retail researchers, retail lecturers, retail students and retail executives. As it has always been, retail executives are part of...

While a strong research base on cluster assets exists, evidence on other factors such as capabilities, i.e. a local culture or networks, is anecdotal and dispersed across research streams. Nicole Rottmer sets out to identify and describe these...

Often, organizations have difficulties in recognizing the need to change. Nicole Zimmermann investigates the barriers to, but also in particular the drivers of organizational change. From the case-specific as well as from a generic study, a structural...

Based on a large-scale survey, Benjamin Niedergassel identifies several factors enhancing or inhibiting knowledge sharing in research collaborations. He uses these factors to derive practical implications for academia, industry and research policyBook...

the strategies' performance outcomes. Drawing on organizational learning theory, she identifies the organizational abilities and processes that constitute a firm's Strategy Implementation Capability construct and shows empirically that the concept is...

Ali Sunyaev develops a method for the organizational and technical analysis of security issues in health care. He identifies security problems in the current concept of German health-care telematics and derives recommendations for future developments in...

Based on literature in corporate responsibility and formal leadership systems Erik G. Hansen develops a conceptual "Responsible Leadership Systems Framework" structuring leadership instruments and tools into seven interconnected key areas. The...

Ferdinand Mahr develops an integrative theoretical model of IT complements such as organizational structure, human resource management, and corporate strategy. He conducts two empirical analyses of the complementarities between IT, organization, and...

Based on practice-oriented and practice-relevant research methods, Anna Quitt, designs an integrated process for measuring supply management's budget effects and develops Return on Spend as an innovative financial effectiveness indicator.Book...

Companies face two main challenges in the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives (VSIs): They recognise acceptance problems by different strategic stakeholders and opposition by competing initiatives and experience significant resource demands...

Jesko-Philipp Neuenburg researches the market-driving behavior - i.e. the behavior of a company that is directed to fundamentally change the structure of the market and/or behavior of market stakeholders - in emerging firms.Book InformationISBN...

Despite representing a fairly small fraction of global tourism activity, the cruise sector has been experiencing a steady growth rate over the last years. The 1st International Cruise Conference (ICC) and its proceedings documented here face the changes...

"Alleviating poverty through the pursuit of profit" has become a catch phrase for many entrepreneurs and business people who started to focus their businesses on the lower incomes segments of the population at the "Base of the...

Foreword Since the first studies by Bower and Burgelman in the early 1980's on the phenomenon of strategic initiatives, the use of strategic initiatives in the strategic management of diversified organizations now is omnipresent. Strategic initiatives...

Kathrin Bosecke analyses the factors that determine the success of business combinations. Based on her analysis of 126 acquisitions and 66 alliances in the European utility industry, she identifies the origin of the participating firms as well as the...

Following the resource-based view, social network theory and transaction cost theory, Katharina Wratschko shows the complex relationship between a firm's business strategy and its alliance portfolio.Book InformationISBN 9783834917089Author Katharina...

The authors present a set of methods for designing and planning the implementation of business-to-business services in international markets and explain the practical use of the methods.Book InformationISBN 9783834915771Author Tilo BohmannFormat...

Christian Willi Scheiner examines selected fundamental determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour. To gain deeper insights it was essential to study influencing and determining factors before the decision is made to found a business. Therefore, not...

Frithjof Pils uses multiple statistical techniques to examine the true nature of the relationships between diversification strategies and accounting-based, market-based, and growth-based performance. The author shows implications for the interpretation...

Katharina Kretschmer contributes to the role typology research stream in international business. The book is highly relevant for management practice. Deep insights into the implications of subsidiary roles are displayed, and it is shown that...

Introduction Are services millennium-proof? Certainly not. At least not at this moment. There is no thorough research needed to derive that conclusion, simply ask around. The evi- dence is overwhelming. True horror stories exist of all types of services...

Increased financial performance and employee commitment are among the benefits the CSR model can offer corporations. This discussion presents practitioners and scholars with a unique examination of how firms can maximise productivity through the...

This book offers a decision making procedure to help managers in companies, non-profit organisations and public administration solve problems. It focuses on problem analysis, on developing solution options and on establishing the decision making matrix...

Managing as a form of human action has an inherent link with philosophy, which is also concerned with choosing the right action and the best way to lead our lives. Management theory and philosophy can join forces in epistemology (the philosophy of...

Companies are what they measure and the selection of good performance indicators is not an easy process. This monograph suggests how to identify indicators that achieve a balance in these effects and enhance long-term profitability. It focuses on the...

This volume covers the topic of innovation in three sections, first demonstrating that processes of innovation and technological change are spatially differentiated, second examining the increasing importance of knowledge creation and diffusion, and...

This book harvests tried and tested management models - models that have demonstrated added value in everyday organisational practice - in an accessible and readable volume. Each contribution is structured around one central figure while describing...

Explains processes and scenarios (process chains) for planning with SAP characteristics. Uses the latest releases of SAP R/3 and APO (Advanced Planning & Optimization software). The levels scenario, process and function are explained from the...

A starter to the concepts of modularization and mass customization. Condensed and application-oriented approach for a broad audience in engineering, production, sales and marketing. Provides an extensive configurator evaluation checklist for future...

Introduction to key background information on India, its culture and its history as well as its industry. Step-by-step guide through the whole outsourcing process. Guidance from leading managers and industry experts. Each chapter can be used as a...