implementation of a specific BSC model at a large software development company in Greece. The study illustrates and evaluates the main obstacles and shortcomings, as well as the critical success factors that characterise such BSC projects, while offering managerial insights and guidelines for similar implementations. Q 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Introduction The shortcomings of traditional management control and performance measurement motivated the development of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
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generally associated with those who facilitate the change process. The change agent is defined here as a manager who seeks “to reconfigure an organizations roles, responsibilities, structures, outputs, processes, systems, technology or other resources” (Buchanan and Badham, 1999) in the light of improving organizational effectiveness. The role of change agents as facilitators is extensively discussed within a rational framework. For example, Buchanan and Body (2002) list competencies of effective
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CONVENTIONAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: EXPERIENCES IN MY PLACES OF WORK. BEING A SEMINAR PAPER PRESENTATION IN ACCOUNTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MASTERS IN ACCOUNTING (MAC) DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING
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The Bath MSc MSc in Accounting and Finance, MSc in Finance, MSc in Finance with Banking, MSc in Finance with Risk Management MSc in Advanced Management Practice MSc in Human Resource Management and Consulting MSc in Innovation and Technology Management MSc in International Management MSc in Management MSc in Marketing MSc in Sustainability and Management Hugh Ayling MSc in Marketing graduate now at L’Oréal Contents 01 Welcome to the Bath Advantage 02 Why choose Bath? 03 Enhancing
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PART A: THE BUSINESS ORGANISATION, ITS STAKEHOLDERS AND THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT Study Guide A1 The purpose and types of business organisation (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Define ‘business organisations’ and explain why they are formed. Describe common features of business organisations. Outline how business organisations differ. List the industrial and commercial sectors in which business organisations operate. Identify the different types of business organisation: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) Commercial
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model of unrelated diversification is thus proposed. In drawing on Penrose’s (1959) resource based approach, unrelated diversification is explained by an organization’s ‘three pillars’, which consist of its strength of dynamic capabilities, absorptive capacity, and weak ties. The role of the three pillars is to discover new resource applications or uses in conditions of market failure that are characterized by ‘incomplete’ markets. A novel feature of this model is that an organization can diversify
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Resource Management Practices and Employees’ Satisfaction Towards Private Banking Sector in Bangladesh Md. Tofael Hossain Majumder Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Comilla University, Comilla, Bangladesh. Phone: +8801816436176. Email: tofael_cou@yahoo.com ABSTRACT: Dramatic advances of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), changing mix and personal values of the workforce, emergence of the knowledge economy and increasing global competition have created enormous challenges
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that how it operates and presenting its activities for the purpose of serving customer requirements to increase their well being in the sense of wealth. Banks also provide many services for clients to make easy their life in a busy environment. In this competitive environment in today’s world, the entire bank increases their facilities in favor of their customers to retain them and capture more share of the market to be leader. Interest is one of the main factors in attracting customers and also one
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management, Faculty of Business Administration, Rajamangala Institute of Technology In what sense can it be said that an organization can, as a whole, be ethical of unethical? What characteristics (e.g. structures, policies, powers, responsibilities, codes, cultures, procedures) would mark out an ethical organization? Business ethics is an applied ethics. It is the application of our understanding of what is good and right to do. A discussion of business ethics must begin
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aCHAPTER 1 BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS At the end of this Module the student shall be able to: Understand the various types of business organisations that can be established. Appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of each type of business Introduction A business activity is any legal activity that may be owned by one person as a sole proprietor or can be owned jointly by two or more people thereby creating a partnership. The main aim of many business operations is to make a profit either in the
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