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White Papers
Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
A key attribute of strategy formation is performing a different set of activities than the rivals. By choosing a distinct set of related activities one has the opportunity to create unique value...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Strategy Maps for Government Organizations
May 2006
As today's government organizations continue to look for effective tools to improve performance management, leading organizations are leveraging the power of strategy maps to help execute...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard Part 1 of 4
May 2006
This paper reports evidence on the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a strategy communication and management-control device. This paper reviews management control and communication...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Strategy Execution in Government Organizations
May 2006
Similar to the private sector in the post-Enron era, today's government organizations face accountability and stewardship challenges like never before. In addition, government organizations...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
A Learning-and-Growth Metric for Strategy-Focused Organizations, Part II
May 2006
If economic value creation is the translation, through focused strategy, of intangible human into tangible commercial assets, then one can say that the learning-and-growth dimension of strategy...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Creating a Strategy-Focused Workforce
May 2006
Human capital is now firmly acknowledged as a strategic source of value creation - indeed, a company's most valued asset - in today's knowledge-based economy. As natural custodians of human...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
The Corporate Scorecard: Making the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
May 2006
The Balanced Scorecard provides a powerful framework for individual business units to describe and implement their strategies. A strategy-focused organization, however, requires more than each...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Executing Strategy With the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
Strategy is execution. If there's one lesson that can be pulled out of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, it is that successfully executing strategy is what creates value. There were plenty of...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Five Distinct Views of Scorecards - And Their Implications
May 2006
Although an organization can have only one overarching strategy, there are five distinct views that stakeholders might have when reviewing a strategy and its associated performance: valuation,...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Benchmark Against "Frugal Leaders" to Improve ROI on IT
May 2006
With benchmarking, IT management teams can analyze the company's IT spending, taking a detailed look at total spending on official IT, business unit IT spending (shadow IT), and indirect spending...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Use Strategic Communications to Execute Strategy: Why Strategic Communications Is so Critical
May 2006
Communications is critical to "Making Strategy Everyone's Job" in a Strategy-Focused Organization (SFO). Well performing organizations are far more likely than poor performing ones to have senior...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Does Porter's Diamond Hold in the Global Automotive Industry?
May 2006
Michael Porter's Theory of the Competitive Advantage of Nations is commonly referred to as Porter's Diamond, as it comprises 4 key elements that lead to national competitiveness. This paper...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
How Can a Firm Convert Its Global Presence to Global Competitive Advantage to Gain Certain Benefits?
May 2006
To convert global presence into a global competitive advantage, companies must exploit five value creation opportunities: adapting to local scale, exploiting economies of global scope, tapping the...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
The Essence of Strategic Leadership: Managing Human and Social Capital
May 2006
A new type of strategic leadership is required to help firms successfully navigate the dynamic and uncertain environment in which they compete today. The strategic leadership needed in 21st...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 4, Frameworks for Measurement and Improvement
May 2006
Although ABM can be used as a stand-alone approach to understand processes, product and customer costs and profitability, it provides a more powerful means of decision support if it exists as part...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 3, so What Is ABM?
May 2006
Initially Activity Based Costing (ABC) was presented as a means of establishing product costs more accurately. The emergence of Activity Based Management (ABM) provided a means of enhancing...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Performance Management - Making It Work, Part 2: Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards for Navigation and Speed
May 2006
Strategy maps and scorecards are excellent tools in the quest for a strategy-supporting measurement system that links to operations and tactics. These are management tools that establish strong...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Case Studies
Case Study: Improving the Profitability of a Supermarket Chain
May 2006
One of the UK's supermarket chains had two Regional Distribution Centres serving 200 branches. The business wanted more refined distribution costs, a model of 'selling' (ie a typical branch), the...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
How to Set Up an Offshore Development Center in India
May 2006
Often US companies underestimate the process involved in setting up and managing a development center. Many multinational companies that have started development centers in India in the last few...
Provided by CTQ Media
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White Papers
The Effects of Knowledge Management on Team Members' Ratings of Project Success and Impact
May 2006
Many organizations are trying to improve the generation and utilization of knowledge. The activities associated with these efforts are identified as organizational Knowledge Management (KM). While...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Putting Knowledge Management to Work for Real Estate Organizations
May 2006
"Knowledge Management" has become an increasingly popular corporate term over the last decade. But what does it mean to one and one's real estate organization? Generally, knowledge management can...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Team Knowledge Structures: Matching Task to Information Environment
May 2006
The knowledge possessed by an organization and its members can be classified as explicit or tacit. Explicit knowledge can be codified and communicated without much difficulty. Tacit knowledge -...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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What Every Business Manager Should Know About Knowledge Management
May 2006
Knowledge Management (KM) is more than reshuffling the org chart and a few job titles. It's about transforming the way business captures, manages, distributes, and interacts with its critical...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Knowledge Management Capabilities & Infrastructure for e-Commerce
May 2006
Executives in leading organizations are increasingly recognizing that in order to maintain or gain competitive advantages, organizational knowledge needs to be managed for and integrated with...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Knowledge Management as a Key for e-Business Competitiveness
May 2006
Knowledge is the lifeblood of E-Commerce (EC). Processes and activities involved in EC are technological means that contribute to managing knowledge. This paper reviews the major perspectives on...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Inter-Organizational Knowledge Management: A Comparison of Law Firms in Norway and Australia
May 2006
Law firms represent an industry that seems very well suited to knowledge management investigation. Law firms are knowledge intensive, and the use of advanced technology may well transform these...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
An Agent-Based Knowledge Management Framework for the e-Commerce Environment
May 2006
Knowledge Management (KM) is emerging as one of the management tools to gain competitive advantage and e-businesses are beginning to invest in KM initiatives. Though several organizations have...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Strategic Alliances and the Management of Intellectual Properties: The Art of the Contract
May 2006
Patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks often compose as much as 85% of a corporation's economic value. Because product lifecycles have shortened as technology advances ever more...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
How To Adopt A Competitive Strategy In An Organization
Jan 2010
Creating a competitive strategy as part of a marketing and business plan can aide you in competing in the marketplace and focus your efforts. When developing a competitive strategy, it is...
Provided by eHow
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White Papers
How To Develop Your Organization's Mission Statement
Jan 2010
When changing your organizational or group structure or setting up the structure for a new organization or group you need to define its scope and meaning and tells others its reason for existing....
Provided by eHow
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White Papers
How To Write Mission Statements
Jan 2010
A mission statement is a concise written document that uses positive language to communicate a company's values, goals and ideologies to its clients, employees or both. As a marketing tool, the...
Provided by eHow
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White Papers
Pyramidal Blind Spots: Perils Of International Joint Ventures
Oct 2009
Foreign companies often enter joint venture partnerships unaware of the dominating corporate governance practices in developing countries. A partner firm may be at the bottom of a pyramid, six...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Brand Scandal Spillover: When Will A Brand Scandal Spill Over And How Should Competitors Respond?
Oct 2008
Brand scandal is more likely to spill over to a particular competitor is perceived to be highly similar on the attribute involved in the scandal. For example, a scandal involving hamburgers but...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
How To Map And Compare Culture Across Firms
Jul 2007
In a globalizing economy, corporations and industries increasingly need to manage across cultural as well as geographic boundaries in communicating with their stakeholders. Do companies from the...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Games Hospitals Play: How hospitals Cope With Competition
Jan 2008
Businesses generally find competition unwelcome. When facing the possible arrival of a new competitor in their market, many firms work to make the newcomer's entry more difficult. Cutting prices,...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
The Deloitte Business Simulation Game: Accelerate The Implementation Of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
May 2010
The development of effective learning and leadership skills comes through practical experience and structural reflection. However, companies can seldom afford the time and resources to explore and...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Winning In The New Risk Environment: Banking And Securities Outlook
May 2010
When we look back at the near-collapse of the financial system in 2008, is it possible we will see the beginning of an era when banks have the tools and infrastructure in place to measure,...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Short-Term Trends Rule The Day In An Unpredictable Recovery
May 2010
With a recovery tentatively underway, many executives are trying to ride the wave of short-term economic trends, making minor strategic adjustments to go farther, faster. Is this the right...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Pattern-Driven Performance: Should You Start With Tools - Or With Talent?
May 2010
Companies everywhere are catching onto the wisdom of mining information for patterns of performance. Using a combination of advanced statistical tools and good, old-fashioned experience, they're...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Making The Leap: After Making A Huge Acquisition To Expand Into Services, This Computer Company Needed To Completely Revise Its Playbook
May 2010
Facing a more challenging environment for its hardware-focused business, this computer company did what many of its competitors had already done: it acquired a technology services company to...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Macroeconomic Consequences Of Global Endogenous Migration: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Apr 2011
In this paper, the authors analyze the demographic and economic consequences of endogenous migrations flows over the coming decades in a multi-regions overlapping generations general equilibrium...
Provided by CEPII
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White Papers
The Turkish Economy After The Global Economic Crisis
May 2010
The Turkish economy has gone thru a fast and strong change in recent years. Three dimensions are of special significance: Firstly, the Turkish economy has grown very quickly, with three severe...
Provided by Hamburg Institute of International Economics
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White Papers
A Non-Linear Coopetitive Game For Global Green Economy
Jul 2011
The paper aims at providing a non-linear Game Theory model of coopetition which addresses the problem of the global Green Economy. The Green Economy is a theoretical model of economic development...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Global Implications Of Japanese Economic Stagnation
Jul 2011
Despite its key contribution to global economic growth through the 1960s and 1970s, in recent decades the rise of China has seen the importance of Japan recede from the public discourse. This is...
Provided by Australian National University
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White Papers
Mature Systems In Global Markets: The Need For An Institutional Division Of Labour
Jul 2011
This paper approaches innovation as a need and not as a choice, particularly in the case of mature systems, defined as localized systems of production that are deeply specialised in mature...
Provided by University of Ferrara
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White Papers
Deciding To Peg The Exchange Rate In Developing Countries: The Role Of Private-Sector Debt
Nov 2009
The authors argue that a higher share of the private sector in a country's external debt raises the incentive to stabilize the exchange rate. They present a simple model in which exchange rate...
Provided by Study Center Gerzensee
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White Papers
The Amazing Synchronicity Of The Global Development (The 1300s-1450s). An Institutional Approach To The Globalization Of The Late Middle Ages
Apr 2011
In a new approach to a long-ranging debate on the causes of the Late Medieval Debasement, the authors offer an institutional case-study of Russia and the Levant. Avoiding the complexity of the...
Provided by London School of Economics and Political Science
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White Papers
Deep" Integration Of 19th Century Grain Markets: Coordination And Standardisation In A Global Value Chain
Jul 2010
This paper explores the dynamics underlying integration of the international grain markets of the nineteenth century. It demonstrates that 'Deep' integration implied changes to market structures,...
Provided by London School of Economics and Political Science
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White Papers
Precautionary Savings And Global Imbalances In World General Equilibrium
May 2011
In this paper, the authors assess the implications of precautionary savings for global imbalances by considering a world economy model composed by the US, the Euro Area, Japan, China,...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
The Role Of Monetary Policy In Turkey During The Global Financial Crisis
Jun 2011
Turkey is an interesting case study because it was one of the hardest hit emerging economies by the global financial crisis, with a year-over-year contraction of 15 percent during the first...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
The Economic Valorization Of Local Resources - Solution Of Diminish The Effects Of Global Crises (Case Study - Bacau County)
May 2009
The current crisis requires us to become aware that the only economic-social development way is the sustainable one, meaning the one that takes into account the limits of the natural environment....
Provided by Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
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White Papers
Global Biofuel Expansion And The Demand For Brazilian Land: Intensification Versus Expansion
May 2011
The authors use a spatially disaggregated model of Brazilian agriculture to assess the implications of global biofuel expansion on Brazilian land usage at the regional level. This Brazilian model...
Provided by Iowa State University
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White Papers
Strategic Alliances - Viable Alternative To Create A Competitive Advantage In A Global Market
Feb 2011
In the past years, in the light of the economic turbulences all around the world, one of the most important ways to assure a competitive advantage is creating a strategic alliance. Such...
Provided by University of Bucharest
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White Papers
Trade Credit And International Trade During The 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis
Jun 2011
This paper studies the role of the credit crunch in the severe contraction of trade and economic activity at the height of the 2008-09 global financial crisis, using firm-level data from six...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
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White Papers
Shifting Sources And Uses Of Profits: Sustaining U.S. Financialization With Global Value Chains
Dec 2007
Research on global value chains has contributed to an understanding of how globalized production processes are governed. The focus has been on the nature of the lead firms, their relation to...
Provided by New School University
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White Papers
Basel II Versus the Global Financial Crisis
Oct 2009
Basel II - present or future many banks have invested heavily in recent years to improve methods of risk management to meet the Basel II requirements. But some banks still make great efforts to...
Provided by University of Craiova
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White Papers
Business Ethics Research: A Global Perspective
Jul 2010
Using 10 years of publication data (1999 - 2008) from 10 leading business ethics journals, the authors examine global patterns of business ethics research and contributing institutions and...
Provided by Springer
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White Papers
Future Perspective On The Euro As A Global Currency
Mar 2011
Ten years ago, many EU officials celebrated by abolishing their old, national currency, and embraced the sign of a newer emerging Europe-the Euro. Today, just ten years later, the same people are...
Provided by Romanian-American University
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White Papers
Remittances And The Global Financial Crisis
Oct 2010
Migrant remittances are an important source of external finance for developing countries. The current financial crisis is believed to have influenced migrant remittance flows as well as volume and...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Global Banking And Local Markets
Oct 2008
In the early 1990s, a widely-shared opinion among scholars and practitioners was that the importance of physical proximity between banks and borrowers would be doomed to drastically decrease over...
Provided by Universita Politecnica delle Marche
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White Papers
Impact Of Culture On Global Marketing
Feb 2011
This paper analyzes the international marketing activities under the influence of cultural environments on different markets. The marketing mix concerning product, distribution and communication...
Provided by University of Craiova
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White Papers
The Global Crisis And The Answer Of Economics
Jan 2010
The authors' annual meeting with its topic "Globalisation: Patterns and Challenges" is taking place in a period of big challenges for them: for economic policy, but also for Economics as a social...
Provided by University of St. Gallen
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White Papers
Living With Global Imbalances
Jan 2008
Over the years, the Brookings Panel has focused overwhelmingly on the U.S. economy. That emphasis reflected the principal interests of its founders, Arthur Okun and George Perry. The United States...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Impact Of Global Financial Crisis On IDB Member Countries: The Case Of Gulf Cooperation Council And Sub-Saharan Africa
Oct 2010
The year 2008 witnessed three major crises (food, energy, global financial and economic crises) and their impacts were increasingly felt worldwide. Since the eruption of global financial crisis...
Provided by Asian Development Bank
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White Papers
Taking Stock Of The Credit Crunch: Implications For Development Finance And Global Governance
Mar 2009
This paper examines how the different forms of development finance for low-income countries are likely to be affected by the global financial crisis, principally through reductions in remittances,...
Provided by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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White Papers
From Overhang To Hangover: Consequences Of Protectionist Responses To The Global Crisis For Low-Income Countries
Jul 2009
As the global economic crisis unfolds, policymakers around the world are faced with increasing pressures to resort to protectionist measures in support of domestic employment. The G20 November...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Role Of Design In Upgrading Within Global Value Chains. Evidence From Italy
Dec 2009
The concept of upgrading plays an important role within the Global Value Chain (GVC) theoretical framework (Gereffi et al. 2005). The globalization of supply chains and the presence in the market...
Provided by University of Padova
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White Papers
The Global Economic Crisis: An Opportunity For Strengthening Asia's Social Protection Systems?
Feb 2010
The current global economic crisis has led to greater prominence for the issue of strengthening social protection systems in Asia. This paper analyzes the key factors determining and the possible...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
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White Papers
Social Europe And/Or Global Europe? Globalization And Exicurity As Debates On The Future Of Europe
Feb 2011
This paper claims that the European Union (EU) has had a very peculiar relationship with the globalized post-Cold War economic order. On the one hand, the EU was instrumental in bringing about...
Provided by University of Sussex
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White Papers
Worker-Specific Effects Of Globalisation
Oct 2009
This paper sets up a general equilibrium model, in which firms are heterogeneous due to productivity differences and workers have fairness preferences and hence provide full effort only if their...
Provided by CESifo Group
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White Papers
Trade Collapse, Trade Relapse And Global Production Networks: Supply Chains In The Great Recession (Revised)
Jun 2011
The nature of international trade and the very nature of globalization have changed dramatically in recent years, with the emergence of new global players and a radically different competitive...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Importance Of Global Shocks For National Policy Makers - Rising Challenges For Central Banks
Sep 2009
The authors analyze the importance of global shocks for the global economy and national policy makers. More specifically, they investigate whether monetary policy has become less effective in the...
Provided by Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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White Papers
What Is The Impact Of The Global Financial Crisis On The Banking System In East Asia?
Aug 2009
The author analyzes the risks in the banking systems in East Asia using the standard supervisory framework, which assesses Capital adequacy, Asset quality, Management, Earnings, and Liquidity...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
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White Papers
An Economic Theory Of Foreign Interventions And Regime Change
May 2011
The author constructs a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In...
Provided by CESifo Group
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White Papers
Emerging Power In Global Governance?: EU Partnership With The UN System In Development And Humanitarian Cooperation
Dec 2008
This paper focuses on the partnership between the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) System concerning development and humanitarian cooperation. Converged policy frameworks among...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
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White Papers
Manufacturers And Retailers In The Global Economy
Jun 2011
The authors develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is...
Provided by CESifo Group
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White Papers
Would Global Patent Protection Be Too Weak Without International Coordination?
Jul 2011
This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004),...
Provided by CESifo Group
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White Papers
Development Through Global Value Chains And The Achievement Of Decent Work: Challenges To Work And Representational Processes
Dec 2009
The co-ordination of global production and trade within value chains has amplified debates concerning the impact of globalisation on labour, especially for developing countries. Whilst many...
Provided by Erasmus University Rotterdam
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White Papers
Carbon-Footprint Policy Of The Top Ten Global Retailers: Contribution To Sustainable Development
Jan 2010
The goal of the paper is to study the policy of the most prominent ten global retailers relative to the reduction in their carbon footprint. This policy is an integral part of the environmental...
Provided by Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
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White Papers
Impact Of The Global Crisis On Banking Sector Soundness In Asian Low-Income Countries
May 2011
The paper takes stock of the impact of the global financial crisis that began in late 2007 on banking sectors of Asian low-income countries, by exploring bank-level data provided by Bankscope. The...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
The Corporate Scorecard: Making the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
May 2006
The Balanced Scorecard provides a powerful framework for individual business units to describe and implement their strategies. A strategy-focused organization, however, requires more than each...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Executing Strategy With the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
Strategy is execution. If there's one lesson that can be pulled out of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, it is that successfully executing strategy is what creates value. There were plenty of...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Five Distinct Views of Scorecards - And Their Implications
May 2006
Although an organization can have only one overarching strategy, there are five distinct views that stakeholders might have when reviewing a strategy and its associated performance: valuation,...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Benchmark Against "Frugal Leaders" to Improve ROI on IT
May 2006
With benchmarking, IT management teams can analyze the company's IT spending, taking a detailed look at total spending on official IT, business unit IT spending (shadow IT), and indirect spending...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
How Unilever HPC-NA Sold Its Employees on the Balanced Scorecard
May 2006
Since its introduction in the early 1990s, the Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) has evolved from a performance measurement tool to a strategic management tool. Numerous organizations report success in...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Use Strategic Communications to Execute Strategy: Why Strategic Communications Is so Critical
May 2006
Communications is critical to "Making Strategy Everyone's Job" in a Strategy-Focused Organization (SFO). Well performing organizations are far more likely than poor performing ones to have senior...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Does Porter's Diamond Hold in the Global Automotive Industry?
May 2006
Michael Porter's Theory of the Competitive Advantage of Nations is commonly referred to as Porter's Diamond, as it comprises 4 key elements that lead to national competitiveness. This paper...
Provided by Thomson Gale
-
White Papers
How Can a Firm Convert Its Global Presence to Global Competitive Advantage to Gain Certain Benefits?
May 2006
To convert global presence into a global competitive advantage, companies must exploit five value creation opportunities: adapting to local scale, exploiting economies of global scope, tapping the...
Provided by Thomson Gale
-
White Papers
The Essence of Strategic Leadership: Managing Human and Social Capital
May 2006
A new type of strategic leadership is required to help firms successfully navigate the dynamic and uncertain environment in which they compete today. The strategic leadership needed in 21st...
Provided by Thomson Gale
-
White Papers
Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 4, Frameworks for Measurement and Improvement
May 2006
Although ABM can be used as a stand-alone approach to understand processes, product and customer costs and profitability, it provides a more powerful means of decision support if it exists as part...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 3, so What Is ABM?
May 2006
Initially Activity Based Costing (ABC) was presented as a means of establishing product costs more accurately. The emergence of Activity Based Management (ABM) provided a means of enhancing...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Performance Management - Making It Work, Part 2: Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards for Navigation and Speed
May 2006
Strategy maps and scorecards are excellent tools in the quest for a strategy-supporting measurement system that links to operations and tactics. These are management tools that establish strong...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
Case Studies
Case Study: Improving the Profitability of a Supermarket Chain
May 2006
One of the UK's supermarket chains had two Regional Distribution Centres serving 200 branches. The business wanted more refined distribution costs, a model of 'selling' (ie a typical branch), the...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
The Effects of Knowledge Management on Team Members' Ratings of Project Success and Impact
May 2006
Many organizations are trying to improve the generation and utilization of knowledge. The activities associated with these efforts are identified as organizational Knowledge Management (KM). While...
Provided by Thomson Gale
-
White Papers
Putting Knowledge Management to Work for Real Estate Organizations
May 2006
"Knowledge Management" has become an increasingly popular corporate term over the last decade. But what does it mean to one and one's real estate organization? Generally, knowledge management can...
Provided by Thomson Gale
-
White Papers
Team Knowledge Structures: Matching Task to Information Environment
May 2006
The knowledge possessed by an organization and its members can be classified as explicit or tacit. Explicit knowledge can be codified and communicated without much difficulty. Tacit knowledge -...
Provided by Thomson Gale
-
White Papers
What Every Business Manager Should Know About Knowledge Management
May 2006
Knowledge Management (KM) is more than reshuffling the org chart and a few job titles. It's about transforming the way business captures, manages, distributes, and interacts with its critical...
Provided by Thomson Gale
-
White Papers
Knowledge Management Capabilities & Infrastructure for e-Commerce
May 2006
Executives in leading organizations are increasingly recognizing that in order to maintain or gain competitive advantages, organizational knowledge needs to be managed for and integrated with...
Provided by Thomson Gale
-
White Papers
Knowledge Management as a Key for e-Business Competitiveness
May 2006
Knowledge is the lifeblood of E-Commerce (EC). Processes and activities involved in EC are technological means that contribute to managing knowledge. This paper reviews the major perspectives on...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Inter-Organizational Knowledge Management: A Comparison of Law Firms in Norway and Australia
May 2006
Law firms represent an industry that seems very well suited to knowledge management investigation. Law firms are knowledge intensive, and the use of advanced technology may well transform these...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
An Agent-Based Knowledge Management Framework for the e-Commerce Environment
May 2006
Knowledge Management (KM) is emerging as one of the management tools to gain competitive advantage and e-businesses are beginning to invest in KM initiatives. Though several organizations have...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Strategic Alliances and the Management of Intellectual Properties: The Art of the Contract
May 2006
Patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks often compose as much as 85% of a corporation's economic value. Because product lifecycles have shortened as technology advances ever more...
Provided by Thomson Gale
-
White Papers
How To Adopt A Competitive Strategy In An Organization
Jan 2010
Creating a competitive strategy as part of a marketing and business plan can aide you in competing in the marketplace and focus your efforts. When developing a competitive strategy, it is...
Provided by eHow
-
White Papers
How To Develop Your Organization's Mission Statement
Jan 2010
When changing your organizational or group structure or setting up the structure for a new organization or group you need to define its scope and meaning and tells others its reason for existing....
Provided by eHow
-
White Papers
How To Write Mission Statements
Jan 2010
A mission statement is a concise written document that uses positive language to communicate a company's values, goals and ideologies to its clients, employees or both. As a marketing tool, the...
Provided by eHow
-
White Papers
Pyramidal Blind Spots: Perils Of International Joint Ventures
Oct 2009
Foreign companies often enter joint venture partnerships unaware of the dominating corporate governance practices in developing countries. A partner firm may be at the bottom of a pyramid, six...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
Brand Scandal Spillover: When Will A Brand Scandal Spill Over And How Should Competitors Respond?
Oct 2008
Brand scandal is more likely to spill over to a particular competitor is perceived to be highly similar on the attribute involved in the scandal. For example, a scandal involving hamburgers but...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
How To Map And Compare Culture Across Firms
Jul 2007
In a globalizing economy, corporations and industries increasingly need to manage across cultural as well as geographic boundaries in communicating with their stakeholders. Do companies from the...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Games Hospitals Play: How hospitals Cope With Competition
Jan 2008
Businesses generally find competition unwelcome. When facing the possible arrival of a new competitor in their market, many firms work to make the newcomer's entry more difficult. Cutting prices,...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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The Deloitte Business Simulation Game: Accelerate The Implementation Of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
May 2010
The development of effective learning and leadership skills comes through practical experience and structural reflection. However, companies can seldom afford the time and resources to explore and...
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Winning In The New Risk Environment: Banking And Securities Outlook
May 2010
When we look back at the near-collapse of the financial system in 2008, is it possible we will see the beginning of an era when banks have the tools and infrastructure in place to measure,...
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Short-Term Trends Rule The Day In An Unpredictable Recovery
May 2010
With a recovery tentatively underway, many executives are trying to ride the wave of short-term economic trends, making minor strategic adjustments to go farther, faster. Is this the right...
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Pattern-Driven Performance: Should You Start With Tools - Or With Talent?
May 2010
Companies everywhere are catching onto the wisdom of mining information for patterns of performance. Using a combination of advanced statistical tools and good, old-fashioned experience, they're...
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Case Studies
Making The Leap: After Making A Huge Acquisition To Expand Into Services, This Computer Company Needed To Completely Revise Its Playbook
May 2010
Facing a more challenging environment for its hardware-focused business, this computer company did what many of its competitors had already done: it acquired a technology services company to...
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Case Studies
Saving The Pennies That Save Lives: Helping A Non-Profit Organization And Its Chapters Embrace Efficiency To Do More Good
May 2010
A large non-profit relief organization with hundreds of local chapters throughout the United States wanted to reduce costs and improve standardization and control across the enterprise. Deloitte...
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Case Studies
Redrawing The Map: How A Fortune 100 Technology Company Simplified Its Channel Strategy To Improve Profitability, Speed And Service
May 2010
A major high technology company relied on a dizzying variety of routes to move its products to market. While company executives suspected that their approach was inefficient, they had no way of...
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Case Studies
Battle Ready: Revolutionizing Major Weapon System Production For A Major Global Aerospace And Defense Company
May 2010
When this aerospace and defense company landed a major military contract, it needed to develop a global production model to deliver a major weapon system faster, and more efficiently. Deloitte...
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Global Recovery: Assessing Its Durability And Strength
Apr 2010
The financial crisis not only laid open the fault lines of the global economy, it also put to test one of the world's most ambitious economic cooperation projects: the euro. The debt crisis that...
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Case Studies
Paper Profits: Improving Supply Chain Operations, Procurement And Integration At A Major Paper Company
May 2010
A major global packaging systems and paper manufacturing company wanted to solidify its competitive position and reduce costs. But decades-old procurement and supply chain practices posed a...
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Case Studies
Think Global. Serve Local: Helping A Global Bank In Its Efforts To Increase Competitive Advantage
May 2010
A global bank needed to improve the customer experience of clients in its highly profitable "Transaction services" business. As the business evolved and clients expanded their global footprint,...
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