FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2020 - Specialist Book CategoryFINALIST: PMI UK National Project Awards 2019 - Project Management Literature CategoryThe business analyst role can cover a wide range of responsibilities, including the elicitation and documenting of business require…
The authors list the five factors that most directly influence customer perceptions: the operational essence of the enterprise, the nature of its offerings, the effects of the organization's heritage, its sense of purpose and its demonstrable body of values.
Organizations increasingly engage in launching new products, but they show heterogeneous decision-making patterns in new product strategies. This dissertation attempts to study the source of organizational heterogeneity in new product introductions (NPIs) by applying behavioral …
Networks appear to be vital living organisms which change, grow and develop through time; hence networks are shaped, dissolved and reformed on a constant base. Although an extensive body of research has focused on the outcomes and the antecedents of the interorganizational netwo…
The problem. This study investigated the role of multinational companies (MNCs) and their impact on sustainable socioeconomic development in Palestine. Integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) into MNC's core business would improve the organization's financial and socia…
This dissertation consists of three theoretical and empirical essays. In all essays strategic behavior is a key factor. The first essay tries to explain certain pricing behaviors in cellular communication markets using social interactions as a basis for modeling. The second essa…
The rapid development of science and technology, the global economic integration, and the multivariate competitive environment has prompted industries to come up immediately with strategic innovations. However, limited studies, particularly in the Chinese cosmetic industry, have…
The Nigerian microfinance banks often close their offices abruptly, leading to the loss of shareholders’ funds. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore strategies microfinance bank directors use to maintain business sustainability. The concepts of microfinance …
This study was designed to investigate the effect of national culture on strategic behavior and performance in the cement industry of both Morocco and the United States of America. The data of study was collected through questionnaires from cement manufacturers in both Morocco a…
Sustainable development problems are a genre of multi-objective ill-defined problems. The scarcity of resources in developing countries adds to the convolution of these problems, which is rooted within many disciplines. Focusing on the energy sector development and its sustainab…
Cette thèse étudie le processus d'amélioration de la performance des actions collectives dans un système d'organisations engagé dans des projets de lutte contre la pauvreté. Le système est composé des trois catégories d'organisations: (1) les bailleurs de fonds (ou organisations…
Primary agriculture and agribusiness are considered vital to the economies of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. However, contribution of Africa's agricultural exports to world trade is less than 15% which is limited, given Africa's vast amount of arable land and resources. The…
This dissertation investigated the antecedent and outcome of environmental management. The study started with a comprehensive literature review on the antecedent of environmental management (Study 1). For this, I focused on how firms' level of decentralisation can influence envi…
Günümüz dünyasının en büyük getirisi olan küreselleşme; teknolojideki gelişmeler işletmeler üzerinde rekabet baskısını her gün artırmaktadır. Bu durum sonucunda global ve yerel işletmeler devamlılıklarını sürdürebilmek ve başarılarını artırmak için zorunlu olarak yeni stratejile…
Bu çalışmada, Türkiye'de internet ve sosyal medya çağında biçimlenen emek süreçleri, dijital emek kavramsallaştırmasından hareketle incelenmiştir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda, bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerinin günümüzde ekonomik ve sosyal hayatın neredeyse tamamına nüfuz etmeye başla…
Araştırmanın amacı işletme yönetim yaklaşımlarının yarattığı bireysel, toplumsal ve kurumsal değişim ve kavramların 20. Yüzyıl Amerikan tiyatro metinlerindeki etkisini gözlemleyerek bu metinler üzerinden işletme ile ilgili temalar çerçevesinde tarihsel bir perspektif sunmaktır. …
Dünya’da her geçen gün artan nüfus ile birlikte kentsel bölgelere yönelim olmuş ve buna istinaden kentlerde nüfus ciddi oranda artmıştır. Bu olay ne kadar ekonomik açıdan iyiye gidişin göstergesi gibi görünse de bu gelişimin çevresel ve sosyal açıdan olumsuzlukları görmezden gel…
Of all the issues and trends facing higher education in Nigeria, the academic turnover commonly referred as "Brain drain" is more pronounced. It continues to deplete the professoriate with its distinctive wealth of academic expertise. Exacerbating the brain drain issues is the f…
A hands-on guidebook for making your strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance Execution Excellence is the practitioner's guide to real-world implementation. Designed by a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) thought leader with 30 years of experien…