1. Introduction and context Strategic management is an essential component of effective high performing organisations. In the private sector the fundamental goal of business strategy is to beat competitors‚ to achieve financial profit‚ Pearson (1999). However in the public sector the central strategic theme is focussed on providing year on year efficiency savings without any perceived loss of benefit to the Public‚ Government et al (1999). Kirkpatrick‚ Ackroyd & Walker (2005) realise that it
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INTRODUCTION The various government agencies were established by the government plan‚ control‚ assist and implement agency will be able to perform its functions smoothly‚ the agencies concerned must be organised in a proper‚ systematic and effective manner. In addition‚ the government would appoint officers to hold public services posts at various levels. The administration of a government agency would be incomplete without financial allocation to pay for all its activities. To finance the agencies
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The Mumbai-Pune industrial belt is the most important industrial region of the country. The region owes its origin to the British rule in India. The British got the Mumbai Island as a marriage gift of Catherine of Braganza’s dowry in 1661. The seizure of Cassette in 1774‚ the collapse of Maratha power in 1818‚ the opening of the Bhorghat to Pune in 1830‚ the opening of steamer service through Suez Canal in 1843 and the opening of the first railway track of 32 km in 1853 between Mumbai and Thane
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The Long March took place from October 1934 - October 1935. It meant that communism was not completely wiped out by the Kuomintang‚ that the people of China learnt about communism and supported the communists‚ that the Kuomintang got control of the south of china and most of the communists died from illness‚ exposure and Kuomintang attacks. At the time it was significant because otherwise all the communists would have been annihilated. Its effects were not seen immediately but in the short term
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firms with their origin in one country‚ but their operations extending beyond the boundaries of that nation. For reasons of marketing‚ financial and technological superiority‚ these multinationals are generally considered as a sine qua non of the modernisation of an economy. They have been responsible for the rapid economic liberalisation in India in 1991‚ the question of the entry of multinational corporations (MNCs) has assumed significance. Multinationals corporations‚ mostly from the United
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Routledge‚ pp. 17-48. Kates‚ R.‚ Parris‚ T. and Leiserowitz‚ A. (2005) What is sustainable development? Goals‚ indicators‚ values and practice‚ Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development‚ 47(3)‚ pp.9-21. Ecological modernisation Barry J. (2005) Ecological Modernisation‚ in Dryzek
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère‚ Manet’s last major work‚ depicts a cynical view of modernity where subtle suggestions of the impact of consumerism‚ the mixing of social classes and class ambiguity have crept in. The café-concert culture was born out of Hussmann’s renovations‚ and it was common for 19th century artists to depict a vibrant café scene full of spectacle and frivolity in Haussmann’s new boulevards (Gronberg 1984). A Bar at the Folies-Bergère reveals a level of isolation and uncertainty that
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Deng Xiopeng was the one man to single handledly turn the Chinese economy around for the better during the 1970’s and 80’s. Allowing for China to become a world superpower‚ all in all shaping the world. Do you agree with this statement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indeed throughout the 1970’s and 80’s Deng Xiopeng was extremely influential in the reformation of the Chinese economy. Allowing for a colossal boost in
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society at that period‚ and all "modern" ideals and lifestyle that threatened the traditional social order of Japan. It was a conservative construct‚ a symbol of what women should not be‚ and a reflection of the negative social phenomena in Japan ’s modernisation
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Coming to the issue of the impact of the new economic policy on the vulnerable sections‚ Rangarajan argues‚ "analytically‚ we need to address two sets of issues. One is whether the new economic policy affects in any way the specific policy measures that we normally undertake in order to improve the conditions of the poor. Second‚ is there anything in the new economic policy which per se has an anti- poor bias? The new economic policy which may be a convenient expression to refer to the measures
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