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technologies in various fields, and creating a center of economic activity around technologies that benefit the environment (Gingichashvili, 2007). Molla (2008) identified three generic forces that can influence the adoption of Green IT — economic forces, regulatory forces, and ethical forces. Economic forces refer to the need for pursuing internal efficiency and market performance (Molla, et al., 2009). A research reveals that cost is the overriding factor for 70% of small businesses IT decision
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Managing Operations Introduction The report will start with definition of operations management concept. This will be followed by identifying some of the global factors affecting operations management in organisations and the impact such factors have on operations management in organisations and to assess how operations management can contribute to sustainable business activities . The second part of the report will describe how project management techniques contribute to the development of
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The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0954-478X.htm TQM 17,2 RESEARCH AND CONCEPTS Components of successful total quality management ´ ´ Juan Jose Tarı Department of Business Management, University of Alicante, Spain Abstract Purpose – According to the literature, quality management consists of a set of components: critical
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successful companies are externally oriented and market-driven (see for instance, Day 1994; Webster Jr. 2002). Privileged market positions serve as a basis for above-normal future returns and thus higher current firm value (Bain 1959; Mason 1939; Porter
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this report, advanced technology is shown as one of many vital keys in computer and peripheral industry along with lesser keys like economic, political, and demographic conditions. For the third part, an industry analysis using Porter 5 forces theory will analyze how those forces affect computer and peripheral industry generally. The second and the third part will focus on the industry as a whole. For the fourth and fifth part of this report, it will highlight Dell. The fourth part will show Dell’s strategic
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International Review of Business Research Papers Vol. 4 No.5 October-November 2008 Pp.20-33 The Strategic Issues, Business Plan and Implementation from Situational and Industry Analysis: A Discussion on a Specific Case Moha Asri Abdullah A business strategy is the focal point of the business practices and competitive strategies in the operational management. It is used to strike out a market position, conduct operations, attract customers, compete and achieve organizational objective. Thus,
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management style of SMEs and LSEs 2 4. Should the company “stay at home” or “go abroad”? 3 5. Development of the global marketing concept 3 6. Forces for global integration and market responsiveness 3 7. The value chain as a framework for identifying international competitive advantage 4 8. Value shop and the service value chain 5 9. Information business and the virtual value chain 5 CHAPTER 2: Initiation of internationalization 8 1. Introduction 8 2. Internationalization
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I. The positioning of United Cereal (UC) a. The vision of United Cereal We accompany you to embrace every delicious and hopeful morning. You inspire us to pursue forever innovative and vigorous winning. ------- United Cereal In a study (James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras, 1996), James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras proposed that a well-conceived vision consists of two major components: core ideology and envisioned future. Core ideology defines what we stand for and why we exist. The envisioned
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Examining the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence of Managers and Organizational Commitment of Subordinates Dissertation Submitted to Northcentral University Graduate Faculty of the School of Business and Technology Management in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY by DANIEL R. BENNETT Prescott Valley, Arizona March 2011 UMI Number: 3452478 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent
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