CONTEXTUALIZING MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS THEORIES FOR AFRICA Term Paper Organizational Theory MOI UNIVERSITY – NAIROBI CAMPUS Presented to : Dr. Komen Presented By: Mohammed Shakeel Salyani SBE/D/101/12 Table of Contents 1. The issue of the applicability of extant theories of management and business to the African context. 2 2. The underlying assumptions and prescriptions of dominant management theories and to what extent are they relevant to African challenges and
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Chapter 12 – The Strategy of International Business Key Points of the chapter Strategy – is the actions managers take to attain the goals of the business (usually to maximize value for the shareholders/stakeholders). Value Chain – The operations of the firm compose the value chain which are the series of value creating activities that occur to create value. These actions include sales‚ production‚ IT‚ accounting etc. These activities are divided into support and primary activities.
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Curtin Business School School of Management Unit Outline 10835 International Management 375 Summer Semester‚ 2012 Unit study package number: Mode of study: Tuition pattern summary: Credit Value: Pre-requisite units: Co-requisite units: Anti-requisite units: Result type: Approved incidental fees: Unit coordinator: 10835 Internal Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours This unit does not have a fieldwork component. 25.0 10848 (v.0) Management 100 or any previous version Nil Nil Grade/Mark Information about approved
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’ Academy ot Management Executive‚ 20D0. Vol. 14‚ No. 4 Diagnosing cultural barriers to \ knowledge management David W. De Long and Liam Fahey Executive Overview Organizational culture is increasingly recognized as a major barrier to leveraging intellectual assets. This article identifies four ways in which culture influences the behaviors central to knowledge creation‚ sharing‚ and use. First‚ culture—and particularly subcultures—shape assumptions about what knowledge is and which knowledge
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This article was downloaded by: [University of California San Francisco] On: 14 December 2011‚ At: 13:45 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House‚ 37-41 Mortimer Street‚ London W1T 3JH‚ UK The International Journal of Human Resource Management Publication details‚ including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rijh20 Creating value for employees: investment
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test of a transaction cost explanation. Journal of Law‚ Economics‚ and Organization‚ 4(2): 305–336. Geringer‚ J. M.‚ & Hebert‚ L. 1991. Measuring performance of international joint ventures. Journal of International Business Studies‚ 22(2): 249–263. Ghoshal‚ S.‚ & Moran‚ P. 1996. Bad for practice: A critique of the transaction cost theory. Academy of Management Review‚ 21(1): 13–47. Glaister‚ K. W.‚ & Buckley‚ P. J. 1998. Measures of performance in UK international alliances. Organization Studies‚ 19(1):
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MCD2040 Managing People and Organisations Equivalent to MU:MGC1010‚ MGF1010‚ MGW1010 Unit Outline Prepared by: Department of Management Faculty of Business and Economics Monash University Produced and Published by: Monash College Pty. Ltd. Clayton‚ Victoria‚ Australia‚ 3800 First Published: January 2009 Revised & Printed: February 2013 © Copyright 2013 NOT FOR RESALE. All materials produced for this course of study are protected by copyright. Monash students are permitted to use these
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As per requirement of Managing Information module‚ the authors are asked to complete a case study assignment on “Does IT Payoff ? : Strategies of Two Banking Giants ” answering three particular questions. Some have argued that companies should spend less on information technology (IT) and wait longer to invest in more matured technologies because IT is a commodity and brings little competitive advantage. In this assignment‚ the authors are required to critically examine the validity of this view
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FORE School of Management‚ New Delhi Course Outline Programme: PGDM (IMG - 7) Name of the Course: GLOBAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Credit: 1.0 Term: 1 Academic Year: 2013 - 2014 Faculty: Dr. Mohit Anand Email: anand@fsm.ac.in Office Contact No.: 011 - 41242443 Faculty: Prof. Savita Gautam Email: savita@fsm.ac.in Office Contact No.: 011 - 41242499 Introduction With changing environment in international economy it is but relevant and necessary to understand the characteristics of global business environment
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