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Organisational and cross-cultural challenges facing expatriate hotel managers in China

Wang, Gongping - 2009

Within China's the hotel industry, they are known as expatriate managers and. on behalf of parent multinational hotel corporations, provide an element of control and co-ordination within local operating units. On average, organisations spend over two and a half times more money to send an...

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Coporate culture in a democratice South Africa

Visser, Ronelda - 2006

This study investigated whether the different home languages of employees of a large financial institution in the Western Cape had an influence of their perception of organisational structure and processes.The author conducted a series of interviews with management-level employees who speak...

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The relative importance of Glaser, Zamanou and Hacker's six cultural dimensions in engendering employee identification: a survey of Chinese employees

Wang, Gang - 2004

Organizational identification has been regarded as a new control strategy for modem organizations. High levels of organizational members' identification result in various benefits to organizational performance.Among organizational theorists there exists a strong school of thought, which sees...

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A Study on Workforce Integration in an International Acquisition

Lussier, Christopher - 2010

International acquisitions are extremely difficult to maneuver and success is far from guaranteed. Navigating through financial statements is one thing, but trying to link together two or more geographically and culturally diverse workforces is an entirely another thing. This study analyzes...

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Business Process Outsourcing: An Exploratory Study

Johnson, David - 2005

This study examines the emergence of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in white collar occupations. Recent BPO practices are compared to the offshore outsourcing of production in the context of the shift from Fordist to flexible production. The study considers BPO in light of Harry Braverman's...

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Unleashing innovation in public agencies

Springer, Christine G. - 2011

Nurturing continuous innovation and renewal in public agencies is not only important but critical to successful public management in an environment of change. Innovation is a tool for transforming the entire culture of organizations and there is a growing recognition that fostering a culture of...

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The Diminishing Effect of Cultural Distance on Subsidiary Control

Wilkinson, Timothy J.; Peng, George Z.; Brouthers, Lance; … - 2008

This paper explores the diminishing influence of national cultural distance on two subsidiary control issues, expatriate staffing and parent company ownership level of the foreign subsidiary. Previous studies have produced conflicting findings: one stream of research argues that when cultural...

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Not quite up to scratch: An examination of failure, persistence, and 'living dead' outcomes for wireless start-ups

Ghosh, Anindya - 2011

This dissertation analyzes why some VC-funded high-tech firms do not generate harvesting events for investors through a lucrative sale, either to another company or on the stock exchange. In other words, I seek to understand two performance outcomes: failure and persistence. Building on the...

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Spotlights and shadows: Preliminary findings about the experiences of women in family business leadership roles

Barrett, Mary; Moores, Ken - 2009

study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how they exercise leadership and entrepreneurship in the family firm … leadership and entrepreneurship roles. We have tentatively labelled them stumbling into the spotlight, building your own stage …

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Entrepreneurship as a Values and Leadership Paradigm

Robinson, David A.; Goleby, Mahesha; Hosgood, Neville - 2006

leadership. Entrepreneurship may be seen as one type of leadership orientation, namely that of leading a business venture. As … entrepreneurship may be situated. The paper aims to position entrepreneurship within a leadership and values paradigm, thereby … research in the fields of entrepreneurship, with the ability to nurture entrepreneurial talent. …

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