The intent of this paper is to discuss the stakeholder’s concerns relative to the significance of perceived performance criteria and the related performance outcomes in a construction sector environment located in Hong Kong. The key participants to this study consisted of clients‚ designers‚ consultants and contractors. Using a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)‚ the research established nine performance criteria namely profitability‚ care for environmental protection‚ timeliness of project delivery
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1002/csr.1283 Stakeholder Expectation of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: A Study on Local and Multinational Corporations in Kazakhstan Monowar Mahmood* and Janet Humphrey KIMEP‚ Bang College of Business‚ Almaty‚ Kazakhstan ABSTRACT Assuming differences among the stakeholders‚ the study investigated stakeholders’ expectations of different aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in Kazakhstan. As a transition economy‚ both internal stakeholders and the government
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Dictionaries (2015)‚ value can be defined as the view that something is being hold to deserve; the importance‚ worthiness‚ or usefulness of a certain thing. Besides‚ value can also be the monetary worth of a certain thing. On the other hand‚ image is defined as the overall general idea that our community in the society had for a certain product‚ brand name and company in business’s point of view (Business Dictionaries‚ 2015). Favaro (1998) mentioned that company will have to learn to place value creation first
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1. Introduction IKEA is one of the most successful manufacturing and retail furniture companies operating in today’s global marketplace. IKEA manufacture from the bottom up‚ top down furniture that offers environmentally friendly‚ state of the art designed furniture that is both affordable and attractive to its customers via their online‚ catalogue and worldwide distribution channels‚ with a logistics network that are low cost footprints with the enforces on cost efficiencies couple with technology
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that of cellular phone use while operating a motor vehicle. This issue has been the subject of much debate among consumer‚ industry and government stakeholders. Most consumer stakeholders‚ such as the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety‚ agree that cell phone use while driving is an unsafe and hazardous distraction‚ while others feel that it is a new luxury provided by the advances in telecommunication. For industry stakeholders‚ this issue provides added markets for technological advances. For
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Value chain analysis refers to a set of value creating activities‚ ranging from raw materials to marketing or producing a product or service and distributing it to the final consumer. Currently in present-day context‚ firms turned to outsource certain resources to reduce their cost of the product. This corporate value chain framework can be used for identifying competitive advantage methods of displaying and categorizing activities to contribute positively to the firm’s competitive strategy. If it
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An Introduction to the Competing Values Framework by: Kim Cameron‚ PhD An Introduction to the Competing Values Framework / 11.11 L DE ONG VE -T LO E PM R (CLAN) INTERNAL Do things together The opposite kinds of tools or techniques‚ such as competitiveness‚ fast response‚ decisiveness‚ driving through barriers‚ or goal achievement‚ could be highlighted in the lower right quadrant. FLEXIBLE EXTERNAL INTERNAL INTERNAL COLLABORATE COMPETE (MARKET) S Do things fast PE HO RF RT OR - FOCUSED
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brief on the case ‚ basically this case shows the continuous crisis where IKEA faces through its growth around the world. IKEA as a major furniture manufacture faces some challenges along the way of growth worldwide. As the Brand start to evolutes ‚ and its values start to be understood and being put to test‚ NGOs ‚ journalists‚ movie makers and governmental start putting those value in the uncomfortable zone. Asking IKEA if these are slogans or if they real work believing those values. First in
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Various stakeholders have the right to influence the decisions that the company makes since they directly command respect from these companies. Due to the influence exerted by shareholders‚ business policies must be formulated to fit the needs of most if not all stakeholders so as to have successful businesses. Stakeholders are all individuals and organizations that are related to the company in one way or another. The term stake is usually taken to mean a portion or share in the business. Examples
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IKEA Purchasing Strategy Jerry‚ Yeung Siu Hang TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2. INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1. Company Background & History 2. Company overview 3. Vision and Mission 4. Key Objective to build an efficient purchasing system to maximize the profit margin 3. Related Background……………………………………………………………………………………………. 1. What is the definition of purchasing Management 2. What is the definition of Purchasing Management in
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