study is to analyze the transformation of SEMCO`s autocratic style of management to a decentralized‚ participatory style. Let us study in brief. History of SEMCO SEMCO‚ A Brazilian manufacturing company‚ invented by the founder’s entrepreneur son‚ Ricardo Semler‚ turning it into one of the worlds most unusual and admired workplaces. SEMCO’s headquarters is located in São Paulo‚ started in 1952 by Ricardo’s father‚ Antonio Semler‚ with a small patent for a centrifuge that could separate lubricating
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College of Engineering and Petroleum‚ Kuwait Uni6ersity‚ P.O. Box 5969‚ Safat 13060‚ Kuwait Received 4 April 2001; received in revised form 26 September 2001; accepted 27 September 2001 Abstract Steam jet ejectors are an essential part in refrigeration and air conditioning‚ desalination‚ petroleum refining‚ petrochemical and chemical industries. The ejectors form an integral part of distillation columns‚ condensers and other heat exchange processes. In this study‚ semi-empirical models are developed
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David Ricardo David Ricardo was one of those rare people who achieved both tremendous success and lasting fame. After his family disinherited him for marrying outside his Jewish faith‚ Ricardo made a fortune as a stockbroker and loan broker. When he died‚ his estate was worth more than $100 million in today’s dollars. At age twenty-seven‚ after reading Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations‚ Ricardo got excited about economics. He wrote his first economics article at age thirty-seven and then spent
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don’t want to know where SEMCO is headed. It doesn’t unnerve me to see nothing on the company’s horizon. I want SEMCO and its employees to ramble through their days‚ to use instinct‚ opportunity‚ and ingenuity to choose projects and ventures. - Ricardo Semler‚ CEO‚ SEMCO1. Admiring though many are‚ few have tried to copy him. It seems that the way he works‚ letting his employees choose what they do‚ where and when they do it‚ and even how they get paid‚ is too upside-down for most managers‚ But
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Essay no 3 Subject: Essay on key points of Adam Smith‚ David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill Instructor: Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Cachanosky Student: Nevila Mehmetaj‚ Master in Management and Finance (MMF) Date September 3‚ 2010 The classical writers of the eighteen and nineteen century when offering definitions of their science expressed themselves about the nature of the economic in two distinct ways. They could define the subject known as political economy. Or having defined the political
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David Ricardo‚ Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. It is also included the comparison of ideas between these masters and last but not least‚ the contributions of these ideas in today’s context. At the beginning‚ the background of the classical period is provided to ensure that readers have a better understanding of the economist’s ideas. Followed by that‚ each economists ideas will be discussed respectively‚ and the comparison will be made. The contributions of Adam Smith‚ David Ricardo and Thomas
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David Ricardo‚ in his Principles of Political Economy (1817)‚ furnished a more precise formulation of the theory of international trade. At the centre of the Ricardian theory of international trade is the celebrated principle of comparative advantage of "doctrine of comparative costs." In fact‚ the doctrine of comparative costs was developed by Ricardo out of his (classical) labour theory of value. According to this theory‚ the value of any commodity is determined by its labour costs. It asserts
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Topic 4: Late 19th Century Theories 1. Continental thought in the early 19th Century was shaped by a philosophy that rejected material things in favor of a search for inner truth. This philosophy was (a) Cartesian rationalism. (b) classical economics. (c) Marxian economics. (d) social rationalism. (e) dialectical materialism. 2. A school of thought influenced by Auguste Comte’s determinism‚ and which contended that Ricardians “confined the observations on which they based their reasoning
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3.1 Principle of Refrigeration[16]: Mechanical refrigeration is done by three processes that are circulation‚ evaporation‚ and condensing a fixed supply of refrigerant in a closed system. Evaporation takes place at a low temperature and low pressure while condensation occurs at a high temperature and high pressure. Thus‚ it is possible to transfer heat from an area of low temperature (i.e.‚ water storage tank) to an area of high temperature (i.e.‚ environment). Regarding to the fig 3.1‚ beginning
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[pic] BE413 International Business Environment 1st Assignment 2009-10 (Module weight: 45%) 1) Compare and contrast two theories of international trade‚ of which one must be a ‘classical’ theory. Please explain the logic and evidence for each theory and what you think are its strengths and weaknesses‚ drawing on the sources recommended by the BE413 module. Word limit: 1000 words. 2) From the perspective of the two theories chosen for part 1 above‚ examine whether the strike action that
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