be losing its capabilities, potential and brains (Denford, J. S., & Chan, Y. E., 2011). The benefits that knowledge management offers ranges from promotion and elevation of unequivocal knowledge to attain efficiency and innovation in various business practices (Durrant, F., 2001). 1.1 What is knowledge management and its importance? The concept of Knowledge management arose in the 1990’s and Davenport (1994) presented a definition of KM (Knowledge management) as, "Knowledge management is
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metropolitan destablizer that promises perpetual programmatic instability. Considering that Manhattan is separated from the continent by two rivers at each side, which excludes the possibility of expansion, the skyscraper is the only choice for the growing business demand. The skyscrapers are seen as repetition/reproduction of the site/earth by Rem Koolhaas. The lobby of the skyscrapers accommodates social facilities such as shops and bars, which competes with the street and finally makes the surrounding
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further research. Also, the study focuses on attitudinal loyalty. Behavioral loyalty should be taken into account in future research. Practical implications – The findings suggest that the supermarket managers showed concentrate their positioning strategies not only on the utilitarian dimension but also on the hedonic motivations to stimulate SLO, especially for older and higher income segments of customers. Originality/value – The major contribution of the study is to empirically examine the role
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Actes du GERPISA n° 34 89 THE IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION ON THE CHINESE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY: POLICY ASSESSMENTS AND TYPOLOGY OF STRATEGIE Chunli Lee Takahiro Fujimoto, Jin Chen During the 1990's foreign enterprises from Japan, the U.S. and Europe were entering the Chinese market, and in due course they began to take an interest in China’s automobile industry. These foreign makers competed with each other to explore the promising auto market in China. But academic research has been mainly concerned
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College of Business Working Paper Series Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics Risk Management Failures: What Are They and When Do They Happen? René M. Stulz, Department of Finance, The Ohio State University, NBER, and ECGI Dice Center WP 2008-18 Fisher College of Business WP 2008-03-017 October 2008 This paper can be downloaded without charge from: http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=1278073 An index to the working paper in the Fisher College of Business Working Paper
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mGames. Harvard Business Review, Case number 902M20 PMAN 638, Section 6389 Team Innovation Adam Allex Justin Davis Monica Dinkins Afton Napper Diane Scott March 30, 2014 Table of Contents Problem Identification (PI) 3 Situation Analysis (SA) 3 Recommendations 5 Problem Identification (PI) Within all organizations there are some sort of internal conflicts between employees. An unsuccessful company and/or team will not be able to resolve internal conflicts for the better
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Management Information Systems Introduction The objective of this assignment is to explore the coffee market in UK and understand the consumer preferences with aid of data resources and the outcome it would have on a new brand of Mysore coffee in the competitive UK coffee market. As the premium sectors develop in the UK, greater emphasis is placed on Arabica beans, with marketing and pack support centered on the provenance and taste credentials of specific beans. Arabica is fast becoming
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with at least some employees and that teams are one of the fastest growing forms of employee 1 This study was supported by the Institute of Management Research of Seoul National University, Korea and by Grants from the R. H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. We dedicate this paper to our late colleague Sabrina Salam. International Journal of Leadership Studies, Vol. 2 Iss. 3, 2007, pp. 171-193 ©2007 School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Regent
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August, 1987 ® The Academy of Management EXECUTIVE, pp. 207-219 1987, Vol. 1, No. 3, Linking Competitive Strategies with Human Resource Management Practices Randall S. Schuler and Susan E. Jackson New York University ver the past several years there has been increased recognition that there is a need to match the characteristics of top managers with the nature of the business. According to Reginald H. Jones, former chairman and CEO of the General Electric Company, O The result of such
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plan to company managers. She said, "I learned that the word has a negative connotation to a lot of Europeans. I was coming across too hard, too much of a results-driven American to the people. I needed to get on board so I started describing our strategy as 'decisive' and that made all the difference." Which of the following grammar topics is the critical element in this passage? B) semantics 7) An intern from the United Kingdom was working in an American software company during summers. One
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