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Exercising Control At Sports Rehab Network, Mark Mensch, Barry Armandi, Herbert Sherman
Exercising Control At Sports Rehab Network, Mark Mensch, Barry Armandi, Herbert Sherman
Organization Management Journal
This is a field-based disguised case describing how an entrepreneur who develops a successful rehabilitation business now must operate within the confines of a bureaucratic hospital setting. The CEO of the hospital who had ordered him not to seek any new ventures given the hospital’s cash flow problems was stymieing his entrepreneurial orientation. The case has a difficulty level appropriate for a junior level course in small business management and entrepreneurship. The case is designed to be taught in one class period (may vary from sixty minutes to one hundred minutes depending upon the course structure and the instructional approach …
Exercising Control At Sports Rehab Network, Mark Mensch, Barry Armandi, Herbert Sherman
Exercising Control At Sports Rehab Network, Mark Mensch, Barry Armandi, Herbert Sherman
Organization Management Journal
This is a field-based disguised case describing how an entrepreneur who develops a successful rehabilitation business now must operate within the confines of a bureaucratic hospital setting. The CEO of the hospital who had ordered him not to seek any new ventures given the hospital’s cash flow problems was stymieing his entrepreneurial orientation. The case has a difficulty level appropriate for a junior level course in small business management and entrepreneurship. The case is designed to be taught in one class period (may vary from sixty minutes to one hundred minutes depending upon the course structure and the instructional approach …
After The Moon: A Study Of Governmental Agency Decline And Nasa, Wendy Noel Whitman
After The Moon: A Study Of Governmental Agency Decline And Nasa, Wendy Noel Whitman
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The concept of decline has variously been applied to businesses, organizations, groups, and government (Levine 1978; Lorange and Nelson 1987; Whetten 1980). The term decline has also been used to describe various government agencies such as NASA. It is the theory put forth presently that decline in its traditional form in the literature does not apply to government agencies. Decline has been previously characterized as a time of decreasing or restricted resources, conflict, a decrease in innovativeness, a decrease in organizational size, a decrease in income or profits, and an organization's inability to adapt (Cameron, Whetten, and Kim; Weitzel and …