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Critical Factors In Project Success: A Study Of Public Sector Construction Projects In Malaysia., Wan Maimun Wan Abdullah Jan 2010

Critical Factors In Project Success: A Study Of Public Sector Construction Projects In Malaysia., Wan Maimun Wan Abdullah

Student Works (2010-2019)

The importance of the construction industry to nation building necessitates that project implemented achieves project success. However, studies and evidence have shown that there is a low probability in consistently achieving project success. Nevertheless, it seems that the definition of project success and how to achieve project success is quite illusive. For more than a century, researchers have been grappling with its definition but the concept remained ambiguous. From the early identification of time, cost and quality as elements of project success, researchers have added many other outcomes and objectives including stakeholders, project manager, communication, leadership, project management, organization structure, …

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Employee Incentives To Make Firm Specific Investment: Implications For Resource-Based Theories Of Corporate Diversification, Heli Wang, Jay B. Barney Apr 2006

Employee Incentives To Make Firm Specific Investment: Implications For Resource-Based Theories Of Corporate Diversification, Heli Wang, Jay B. Barney

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We argue that the risk associated with the value of a firm's core resources has an impact on employee decisions to make firm-specific investments, independent of the threat of opportunism that might exist in a particular exchange. We further explore mechanisms firms may adopt to mitigate the employee incentive problem stemming from the risk associated with core resource value. These arguments shed new light on resource-based theories of corporate diversification.

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Why Is Management A Cliché?, Stefano Harney Jul 2005

Why Is Management A Cliché?, Stefano Harney

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This article introduces the term demotics of management by asking why so much management literature reads like a cliché. Typically this question has been approached by seeing the cliché as strategic. This article instead views the cliché as symptomatic. It marks a growing problem—how can management track labor out of the workplace and into the realm of social reproduction, a realm that is increasingly, with the tendency of immaterial labor, directly productive. This problem has produced not only the explosion of popular management literature, particularly in the United States, in the last 20 years, but also what might be called …

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Managing School Success: A Case Study From Pakistan, John Retallick Jan 2005

Managing School Success: A Case Study From Pakistan, John Retallick

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

This article reports on case study research into the management of successful schools in a developing country, Pakistan. In Pakistan there are attempts being made to improve school education through decentralisation and involving school communities through School Management Committees. Whilst serious problems remain in the provision of quality school education, there are nevertheless, some successful schools and the research sought to identify three such schools and investigate how and to what extent the management of the schools was contributing to their success. In the article a case study of one of the schools is reported along with the findings from …

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The Systematic Evaluation Of A Strategic Management Program In An Irish Institute Of Technology, Deirdre Lillis Jan 2005

The Systematic Evaluation Of A Strategic Management Program In An Irish Institute Of Technology, Deirdre Lillis

Conference papers

Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) worldwide are investing significant resources in strategic planning and self-evaluation programs to improve institutional performance and to meet external stakeholder demands. Little empirical evidence exists however which demonstrates that these programs are effective in leading to improvements in institutional performance, let alone shed light on the reasons why. This paper reports on the systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of a Strategic Management program in an Irish HEI over a five year period in leading to improvements in institutional performance.

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Profits In The Pie Of The Beholder, Daniel Corsten, Nirmalya Kumar May 2003

Profits In The Pie Of The Beholder, Daniel Corsten, Nirmalya Kumar

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In the early 1990s, grocery suppliers and retailers joined forces to streamline operations - an initiative called "efficient consumer response." Today, suppliers feel like they're not getting their fair share of the profits from ECR. But they stand to lose more if they give up on it, the authors say.

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Successful Management By Neville Bain, New Delhi: Macmillan Press, 1995., Maj Gen V Uberoy Mar 2002

Successful Management By Neville Bain, New Delhi: Macmillan Press, 1995., Maj Gen V Uberoy

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

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Turnaround Excellence : Insights From 120 Cases By Pradip N Khandwalla, Response (Sage), 2001., Srinivas Gunta Mar 2002

Turnaround Excellence : Insights From 120 Cases By Pradip N Khandwalla, Response (Sage), 2001., Srinivas Gunta

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

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Marketing Strategy And Game Theory, Nagasimha Balakrishna Kanagal Jul 1998

Marketing Strategy And Game Theory, Nagasimha Balakrishna Kanagal

IIMB Management Review

Management Update establishes the links between Management Strategy and Game Theory and develops the theme with apt illustrations.

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1995 A Year Of Change And Challenge, Graeme Robertson Jan 1995

1995 A Year Of Change And Challenge, Graeme Robertson

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The Government's new approach to supporting Western Austrsalia's $4.3 billion agricultural sector has paved tthe way for a more dynamic and innovative delivery of services to primary producers and rural communities, according to Agriculture Western Australia's Chief Executive Officer Graeme Robertson.

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Interpreting And Responding To Strategic Issues: The Impact Of National Culture, Susan C. Schneider, Arnoud De Meyer May 1991

Interpreting And Responding To Strategic Issues: The Impact Of National Culture, Susan C. Schneider, Arnoud De Meyer

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Perceptions of environmental uncertainty and organizational control influence strategic behavior. As national culture influences these perceptions we expect to find cultural differences in interpretation and response to strategic issues. Given a case describing an issue concerning deregulation of the U.S. banking industry, managers completed questionnaires rating interpretations and responses to that issue. National culture was found to influence interpretation and responses. In particular, Latin European managers when compared with other managers were more likely to interpret the issue as a crisis and as a threat. Latin Europeans were also more likely to recommend proactive behavior. This study indicates that different …

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Using Management Techniques To Solve Environmental Problems, Patrick D. Kelly Jun 1990

Using Management Techniques To Solve Environmental Problems, Patrick D. Kelly

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Arguing that little effective progress is being made in solving problems of varying urgency, this paper suggests a leadership role for science and engineering societies. It proposes that such societies attempt to prioritize problems and attempt to focus public awareness (and calls to action) in a more systematic way.

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