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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"managerial control"”.
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"Completing the performance jigsaw": improving managerial control and enhancing organisational performance through the introduction of a wide range of performance measures: a longitudinal study in a Scottish local authority
… alone as being inadequate for appraisal or control. Many examples are cited where the system of performance review has shed light on the real drivers of value in organisations, thus indicating profound changes in the business process.<br/><br/>The purpose of this research is to investigate …
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Corporate governance in the UK post-Cadbury
… in 1992. New evidence is provided on the role of managerial control, board structure and equity issuance in company decision making with respect to the adoption of a corporate governance code of best practice, CEO replacement and appointment decisions, and corporate restructuring. These findings …
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Essays on international trade and Bayesian forecasting
… an international duopoly under settings of non-controlling interest and managerial control. Counterintuitive results abound with managerial control, in that the acquiring firm will increase its exports abroad, despite the presence of transportation costs. Additionally, a discussion of antitrust …
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The influence of organisational control practices on knowledge production
… knowledge creation and organisational and managerial control. I explore how organisational control impacts, influences, shapes, fashions and lay the foundation for the creation of the various types of knowledge within a research organisation. In particular, the aim of the study is to …
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The management of sub-cultures in a multicultural organisation.
… is an in-depth research into the management and control of subcultures in a multicultural and geographically dispersed organisation. Primarily the thesis focuses on the Distribution function in Bass Brewers North where there is much cultural diversity and a high resistance to change in areas …
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Evaluating the Influence of Airport Governance Structures on Financial Performance
… airports based on their governance structure. Managerial control was examined among the five airport groups to help indentify possible reasons for the similarities and differences. The results revealed that differences did exist among the groups. These differences, however, were not found among …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… consent to rationalization because extending managerial control over the shop floor reduced laborer autonomy. Indeed, this dissertation argues that it was the solidarity created in a multitude of struggles against such impositions that provided an important crystallization point uniting German …
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Select geomorphological components of wildlife habitat in the ridge and valley province of Virginia
… research and management, and to increase managerial control.
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Network design models for intermodal logistics
… network requires a high degree of planning and managerial control.
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Social workers' experience of work under changing administrative forms: an empirical and theoretical critique of Braverman
… Braverman claims a process of increasing managerial control over the labour process - a process of proletarianization is inevitable for workers in capitalist societies, whether in private or in state enterprises. My study investigates whether this thesis successfully explains the …
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ERP implementation success framework for developing countries : case of South African SMEs
… decision-making, cost reduction and greater managerial control. With today's Information Technology (IT) market growth, South African Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have started to recognise ERP systems as a common and necessary platform. However, literature on this topic indicates that …
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Laborlandschaft : redesigning the industrial laboratory module
… and environmentally sensitive rather than managerially-oriented. The spatial organization seeks to flatten the managerial hierarchy by eliminating explicit office spaces. The laboratory is instead spatially divided according to affinity for behaviors and activities rather than strict …
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Perceived environment, strategic orientation, ownership effect and performance implications in a transition economy: an empirical study in the People's Republic of China
… significant impact on variables that subject to managerial control. Firm ownership type moderated the magnitude (in two ownership types) and configuration (in another two ownership types) of environment-strategy relationship. This moderating effect of ownership led to significant performance …
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Administration of the Public Finance Management Act 1999 in the North West Provincial Administration in South Africa
… Committee and the Auditor-General (AG). The managerial control and fiduciary duties by the structures in government departments will have to be enhanced in order to ensure that financial management is aligned with the PFMA. Policy implementation requires the necessary tools, techniques, …
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Friesens Corporation, printers in Mennonite Manitoba, 1951-1995
… The willingness of Mennonites to accept managerial authority, even as they accepted the authority of their fathers, husbands, and church leaders, made them model employees from an employer's perspective. Friesens Corporation, (formerly D. W. Friesen & Sons) a printing firm established by …
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The effects of individual, organizational and environmental factors on the adoptions of e-commerce by SMEs in the Netherlands. An examination of factors influencing managerial beliefs, attitudes and the use of an e-commerce system using the technology acceptance model.
… variables that are possible antecedents of managerial beliefs, attitudes, and the use of IT. E-commerce systems were chosen as the IT tool under review. A cross-sectional field survey was conducted to investigate the theoretical research model. The results are based on the analysis of …
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Knowledge exchange at York St John: Building capacity in a small university.
… new knowledge. Academic individualism and managerial control inhibited participation in the action research process and whilst the diagnosis was partly shared with the academic community further actions were not achieved. However a subsequent re-structuring of the University and a very …
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Employee Engagement: Understanding the ‘Personal’ Dimension of Engagement
… ‘bent’ engagement through its appropriation to managerialist agendas, and ‘stretched’ in its meaning away from being an individual state of mind (Truss et al., 2013). This study explores Kahn's (1990) original framing of engagement as a deeply personal experience, considering what PE is and how …
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Working on-demand in the domestic sector: A case study on the experiences of platform domestic work in Cape Town
… in the regulation of their labour effort. Managerial control over platform domestic workers' labor is exercised indirectly and from a distance, through the practice of management-by-customers and the algorithmic surveillance and monitoring of work and productivity on the platform. This …
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A comprehensive systems approach for implementing a computer-based integrated information system within a university
… and decision must be coordinated among planning, managerial control, and operation. All personnel involved in a system must be aware of informational needs for instruction, student, business, and public affairs. Data regarding students, curriculum, finance, facilities, personnel, and environmental …
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