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New Ventures: Control Of Risks Through Strategies, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara
New Ventures: Control Of Risks Through Strategies, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara
Ray McNamara
This paper uses case studies and interview data to explore the relationship between control and new venture success/survival. A model of the new venture control process is distilled and explored in six new venture cases. The control processes were traced through an examination of the everyday language of venture principals to determine a grounded lower order model. Integrating these models into contingency theory locates strategic risk reduction choices as the crucial link between contingent variables and organizational control packages. In this sense the process of organizing is seen as a tiered process of risk reduction: successful firms analyze and control …
New Ventures: Control Of Risks Through Strategies, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara
New Ventures: Control Of Risks Through Strategies, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara
Simone Kelly
This paper uses case studies and interview data to explore the relationship between control and new venture success/survival. A model of the new venture control process is distilled and explored in six new venture cases. The control processes were traced through an examination of the everyday language of venture principals to determine a grounded lower order model. Integrating these models into contingency theory locates strategic risk reduction choices as the crucial link between contingent variables and organizational control packages. In this sense the process of organizing is seen as a tiered process of risk reduction: successful firms analyze and control …
Strategies To Overcome Barriers To A More Effective Leadership Style, David Barnwell
Strategies To Overcome Barriers To A More Effective Leadership Style, David Barnwell
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Disengaged employees and leaders lacking the skills to engage their employees account for an estimated $300 billion annual loss through lowered productivity. This study focused on a leader's understanding of employee engagement as a means of increasing productivity. Utilizing the theory of leadership styles and expectancy theory for the conceptual framework, this descriptive study explored strategies small business leaders have used to develop effective leadership styles to improve workplace engagement. Interviews with a purposive sample of 20 highest-ranking executives at small businesses with between 50 and 250 employees in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States were analyzed using the …
La Importancia De Implementar El Área De Recursos Humanos En Las Pymes, Luz Amparo Rocha, Eva Paola Rodríguez Martínez
La Importancia De Implementar El Área De Recursos Humanos En Las Pymes, Luz Amparo Rocha, Eva Paola Rodríguez Martínez
Administración de Empresas
Se estudia la importancia y el papel decisivo que cumple la presencia del “área de recursos humanos” en las Pymes. A pesar de lo que revelan las prácticas deficientes de un porcentaje significativo de Pymes en Colombia (30%), este artículo muestra primero las razones que justifican la existencia de esta área. Luego estudia las dificultades que surgen de la ausencia de esta área en una empresa. Finalmente estudia sus funciones específicas, mostrando cómo éstas se entretejen con -y afectan a- todos los niveles de la dinámica empresarial. El artículo busca poner en evidencia tanto las ventajas, en caso de existencia, …