guide examines case studies‚ a form of qualitative descriptive research that is used to look at individuals‚ a small group of participants‚ or a group as a whole. Researchers collect data about participants using participant and direct observations‚ interviews‚ protocols‚ tests‚ examinations of records‚ and collections of writing samples. Starting with a definition of the case study‚ the guide moves to a brief history of this research method. Using several well documented case studies‚ the guide then
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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS AND CO-OPERATIVE BANKS Introduction The robust macroeconomic environment continued to underpin the financial performance of Indian banks during 2004-05‚ with major bank groups successfully weathering the impact of an upturn in interest cycle. The demand for credit was broad-based during 2004-05 with agriculture and industry joining the housing and retail sectors to drive up the demand for credit. A sharp increase in net interest income mitigated to a large
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Sense of Change Management‚ 2nd edition Case studies – text and questions Contents Case study 1: Aster Group 3 Case study text: Aster Group 3 Introduction 3 History‚ culture‚ orientation 4 Drivers for change 6 Leadership 8 No shotgun wedding 9 The transition period – one year on 11 Project management 12 Organizational development 13 Developing management and leadership capacity and capability 14 Case study questions: Aster Group 17 Individual
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Three Executives of a well-known multi-national company decided to form a new company‚ named New Star Company Limited in 1974. These three executives were becoming close to their retirement age. Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited‚ the company that they worked for had been in business for the last 80 years. It was their previous employers policy to retire the executives with a golden hand-shake worth approximately US120‚000 each. The three executives occupied the following position with Pifco-Zen Chen
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complete this project. Our sincere thanks go to our librarian at Dr.Gaur Hari Singhania Institute of Management and Research for providing us the useful information and their kind co-operation and tremendous support. Nishtha Sethi Simar Preet Singh PERFACE Term paper imbibes an integral part of Business Environment Studies. One cannot merely depend upon the theoretical knowledge‚ but such Term Papers propelled with fruitful classroom lectures which clear the fundamental concepts .To develop managerial
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Tesco – Business Transformation Case Study Who would have thought that the food retailer famous for the slogan “Pile It High‚ Sell It Cheap” launched by Jack Cohen on an East End market stall in 1919‚ would have grown into one of the largest non-food retailers in Europe by 2007? What was it about Tesco that enabled it to move from being the poor relation to J. Sainsbury in the 1970s and 1980s to become the largest UK food retailer in the first decade of the 21st century? What was it that happened
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Case study: supply and demand The aim of this case study is to examine how the ideas and techniques for self-management you read about can be used and adapted to fit personal circumstances. In this case – the story of Asma‚ a mother of two young children returning to paid employment – you will be asked to think how the ideas might be useful to her in managing her return. You may be asking why a decision to go back to paid work is being discussed in the context of a course about management. You may
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Module 7 Case Study 2: Transforming customer service for BRANZ Ltd. Abstract Porter’s value chain describes a comprehensive format of creating value within any business venture. It explains how to alter business inputs into outputs that are of greater value than the initial cost of creating the same outputs. According to Michael Porter‚ analysing the chain of activities in any organization will be of more value to the output and services compared to the summation of the cost of these activities
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ACCG926 – Corporate Accounting Case study – SEEK Limited The purpose of this case study is to illustrate how the accounting concepts discussed in this unit are applied in a listed company. SEEK Limited is listed in Australian Stock Exchange (Code: SEK) and it is the largest online employment classified company by market capitalisation in the world. The company has operations in three industries: Online employment classified advertising; the provision and execution of training courses; and
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CASE 2 FOUR CUSTOMERS IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS OVERVIEW Four telephone subscribers from the same street in a suburb of Toronto complain individually to Bell Canada about a variety of different problems. Is there more to each problem than might appear on the surface? Does it offer Bell a marketing opportunity? TEACHING OBJECTIVES • Provoke a discussion of the potential underlying causes of consumer complaints. • Highlight the fact that complaints are often opportunities in disguise‚
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