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Supply Chain Change Management: An Internal And B2b Relationship Perspective, Edward Sweeney May 2010

Supply Chain Change Management: An Internal And B2b Relationship Perspective, Edward Sweeney

Practitioner Journals

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Chain Reactions:Management Opportunities Report, Edward Sweeney Feb 2010

Chain Reactions:Management Opportunities Report, Edward Sweeney

Practitioner Journals

No abstract provided.


Subsidiaries As Learning Engines: Understanding Middle Managers’ Searching For Knowledge As Micro-Foundation, Esther Tippmann, Pamela Sharkey Scott, Vincent Mangematin Jan 2010

Subsidiaries As Learning Engines: Understanding Middle Managers’ Searching For Knowledge As Micro-Foundation, Esther Tippmann, Pamela Sharkey Scott, Vincent Mangematin

Articles

A lot of research on MNC knowledge flows has concentrated on the organizational conditions that promote learning outcomes through a more efficient reuse of existing knowledge (cf. Gupta and Govindarajan 2000). Departing from this predominant research stream and recognising the increasingly important role of middle managers in large, distributed organizations, we investigated how subsidiary middle managers actually search for knowledge when dealing with non-routine problems and evaluated the solution outcomes in terms of generating organizational adaptation. By doing so, we contribute to several calls for more micro-level research of organizational learning processes (Felin and Foss 2005, 2009, Felin and Hesterly …


Integration, Alignment And Ict In Supply Chains, Edward Sweeney Jan 2010

Integration, Alignment And Ict In Supply Chains, Edward Sweeney

Other Resources

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Dynamic Supply Chain Management Leading The Recovery, Edward Sweeney Jan 2010

Dynamic Supply Chain Management Leading The Recovery, Edward Sweeney

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Towards Performance Measurement In Hotels:An Incremental Approach, Detta Melia, Leigh Robinson Jan 2010

Towards Performance Measurement In Hotels:An Incremental Approach, Detta Melia, Leigh Robinson

Books / Book chapters

The overall aim of this paper was to investigate the phenomenon of performance measurement in independently owned hotels in Ireland in order to understand the role of measurement in the management of the largest component of the hotel sector. The primary objectives of this paper was to investigate the extent to which Irish hotel operators are utilising performance measurement techniques, to establish the rationale for the use of selected performance measures in independently owned hotels and to understand approaches to performance measurement in the management of independently owned hotels.

A comprehensive investigation of existing performance management and measurement activity is …


Ict In Supply Chains, Edward Sweeney Jan 2010

Ict In Supply Chains, Edward Sweeney

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No abstract provided.