2 ICTs AND GLOBAL WORKING IN A NON-FLAT WORLD Geoff Walsham Judge Business School University of Cambridge Cambridge, U.K. Abstract This paper rejects the hypothesis of Thomas Friedman that ICT-enabled globalization is driving us toward a flat world. Instead, it is argued that the world remains uneven, full of seams, culturally heterogeneous, locally specific, inequitable, not well-integrated and constantly changing. This argument is supported by an analysis of three areas of ICT-enabled global
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are, what kind ownership are they and what is the type of their business. Then I will be going to describe the different stakeholders who influence the purpose of Tesco and Costcutter. This article will cover the purpose, ownership, organisational structure and strategic planning of both Tesco’s and Chloe’s corner shop. Tesco’s Tesco started in 1919 when Jack Cohlen started selling surplus grocery from a stall in east London. Mr Cohen who is the founder of Tesco made a profit of £1 from a sale of
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No. 2060 August 7, 2007 The Estonian Economic Miracle The Honorable Mart Laar Estonia is a small country in Northern Europe on the Baltic Sea, at the crossroads of East and West, South and North. Samuel Huntington states that the Estonian border is a border of Western civilization, a border where civilizations clash.1 This has made Estonia interesting to historians but hard for people who live there. Throughout history, Estonians have had to fight for their freedom. In 1918, Estonia declared
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Video Case 1: Original Penguin Becomes a Learning Organization Questions: 1. As the organization has grown from just three employees, Chris Kolbe has had to delegate more decisions to others. How important is this transition to Original Penguin’s success as a learning organization? Explain. - It is important to delegate more decisions to others because the free flow of information is the key to the rejuvenation of Original Penguin. This is to make sure that communication with the team is at
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abilities of the employees were untapped. Since the organization was hierarchical in nature the decisions were being framed at higher levels and people actually associated with the problems were not being consulted. The new vision of the IPS was to be a flat organization with fewer levels of supervisions where customers will be their primary concern. To effectively implement their new vision IPS proposed to create self-managed teams. This drastic organization changes at AAL initially won very few fans
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their environment and competition as expediently as possible. Activities, for example such as task allocation, coordination, and supervision directed toward the attainment of organizational aims are the elements of organizational structure. In conjunction with structure is organizational design, the plan. According to Hearst Communications, Inc. (2013), “When a company's leaders develop plans for how their company should function or would perform better, they undertake the business of organizational
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pp. 83–126 A Flat World, a Level Playing Field, a Small World After All, or None of the Above? A Review of Thomas L. Friedman’s The World is Flat EDWARD E. LEAMER∗ Geography, flat or not, creates special relationships between buyers and sellers who reside in the same neighborhoods, but Friedman turns this metaphor inside-out by using The World is Flat to warn us of the perils of a relationship-free world in which every economic transaction is contested globally. In his “flat” world, your wages
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company, and this company is growing fast that employee has the opportunity to grow with it. Regularly, starting companies have less position in their organizational chart. Therefore, the owner could play the role of a CEO at the time. This easy structure facilitates the promotion of founder employees. In the early stages of leadership, a leader can be confident of his/her decision-making process, honesty behavior, and energetic attitude. A leader must work proactively to maximize the outcome of
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Mintzberg has made significant contributions to strategic management especially in terms of organisational effectiveness. He argues that an effective organization is one that chooses an appropriate configuration, which brings strategy, context and structure into a natural integration. For instance, some organisations achieve integration through product innovation while others achieve through efficient machines. However, in recent years, Mintzberg has come to realize that not all effective organizations
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Exercise: 1 – 7th Class of OSD Macquarie Bank Case Study Macquarie Bank is an excellent example of a highly successful organization, which has been able to maintain its success using an incremental adjustment process while operating in a rapidly changing environment. During the 1980s and 1990s, changes occurred in the environment of Australian financial institutions. These included rapid deregulation of the financial services sector by the Australian Labour Government. The critical moves
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