MISSION STATEMENTS OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE FIRMS: A CONTENT ANALYSIS Refika BAKO LU Marmara University, Turkey Bige A KUN Marmara University, Turkey ABSTRACT A well-designed mission statement is essential for formulating, implementing and evaluating business strategy. However the role of the mission statement in the strategic management of business firms has not been sufficiently highlighted in the research literature. The importance of mission statements to the effective strategic management
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How to Invest in Social Capital by Laurence Prusak and Don Cohen Every manager knows that business runs better when people within an organization know and trust one another—deals move faster and more smoothly, teams are more productive, people learn more quickly and perform with more creativity. Strong relationships, most managers will agree, are the grease of an organization. Business gets done without them, but not for long and not very well. Scholars have given a name—social capital—to
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24 Phase 2: Setting Objectives 33 33 33 The Imperative of Setting Stretch Objectives What Kinds of Objectives to Set—The Need for a Balanced Scorecard Phase 3: Crafting a Strategy 37 Strategy Making Involves Managers at All Organizational
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challenge. But what exactly is human capital and how does it relate to an organization’s chances for successfully executing its strategy? In short, human capital is the sum of knowledge, abilities, skills, values, personality, ideas, motivation, behaviors and experiences owned and offered by the people within an organization. All things being equal, the better the quality of an organization’s human capital the more successful it will be. The importance of human capital to an organization’s success
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Long Range Planning 43 (2010) 172e194 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Business Models, Business Strategy and Innovation David J. Teece Whenever a business enterprise is established, it either explicitly or implicitly employs a particular business model that describes the design or architecture of the value creation, delivery, and capture mechanisms it employs. The essence of a business model is in defining the manner by which the enterprise delivers value to customers, entices customers
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www.sciedu.ca/jms Journal of Management and Strategy Vol. 1, No. 1; December 2010 Talent Management in HR Preeti Khatri (Corresponding author) HCTM, Kaithal-Ambala Road, NH-65, Kaithal, Haryana (136027), India Tel: 099968-56761 E-mail: pkhatri2010@rediffmail.com Shikha Gupta HCTM, Kaithal-Ambala Road, NH-65, Kaithal, Haryana (136027), India Tel: 098131-81836 E-mail: shikha_gupta40@yahoo.com Kapil Gulati HCTM, Kaithal-Ambala Road, NH-65, Kaithal, Haryana (136027), India Tel: 09812-04737
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Long Range Planning 43 (2010) 172e194 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Business Models, Business Strategy and Innovation David J. Teece Whenever a business enterprise is established, it either explicitly or implicitly employs a particular business model that describes the design or architecture of the value creation, delivery, and capture mechanisms it employs. The essence of a business model is in defining the manner by which the enterprise delivers value to customers, entices customers to
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The International Airline Industry Background The airline industry has been limited in expanding because of national and international regulations. Even the dominant players in this market have only been able to keep their dominance over their own markets, except for United States. In United States, the state owned national flag carriers have been the key players of this industry. But in 1990, the competition started to increase in this industry. This was caused due to deregulation, privatization
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University of Florida Levin College of Law UF Law Scholarship Repository Faculty Publications Faculty Scholarship 2013 Leadership and Followership Robert H. Jerry II University of Florida Levin College of Law, jerryr@law.ufl.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub Recommended Citation Robert H. Jerry, II, Leadership and Followership, 44 U. Tol. L. Rev. 345 (2013), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/ 366 This Article
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VIEW Strategic Human Resource Management Taken from: Strategic Human Resource Management, Second Edition by Charles R. Greer Copyright © 2001, 1995 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. A Pearson Education Company Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 Compilation Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Custom Publishing All rights reserved. This copyright covers material written expressly for this volume by the editor/s as well as the compilation itself. It does not cover the individual selections herein that
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