Entrepreneurship and Family Business:Exploringthe Connections
Entrepreneurship and Family Business:Exploringthe Connections ~ This article explores how the family influences an entrepreneur’s career. There are variouspoints in time where family and entrepreneurial dynamics intersect. These include; (1) earlyexperiences in the entrepreneur’s family of origin; (2) family involvement and support ofearly start up activities; (3) empioyment of famiiy members in the new venture; [...]
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS SUCCESS
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS SUCCESS ~ EDUCATING TOMORROW’S GLOBAL BUSINESSLEADERSOne of our long standing supporters of the Prince of WalesBusiness Leaders Forum Jane Nelson, described AIESEC asunique in that we are a group of very idealistic young people,who have a very practical approach to things. We dream, but wealso act upon our dreams and [...]
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India’s New Capitalists : Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation
India’s New Capitalists : Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation ~ With the world’s economic order getting restructured, the buzz word todayis ‘emerging economies’. The transformation and growth of these economieshas been attributed to emergence and influence of entrepreneurial privateand collective firms (Peng and Heath, 1996). A growing body of research attempts tounderstand [...]
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How the Wo rld Trade Organisation is shaping domestic policiesin health care
How the Wo rld Trade Organisation is shaping domestic policiesin health care ~ High up on the agenda of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is the privatisation of education, health, welfare, socialhousing and transport. The WTO’s aim is to extend the free market in the provision of traditional public services.Governments in Europe and the US [...]
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The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business
The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business ~ Reviewed by Rosemary GordonThis is a fully revised and updated edition of Gabrielle Palmer’s 1988 classic, and it isa must for all breastfeeding advocates and supporters who want to understand themany forces – commercial, political and social – which make breastfeeding difficultif not impossible [...]
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THE BUSINESS OF HEALTH : THE ROLE OF COMPETITION, MARKETS, AND REGULATION
THE BUSINESS OF HEALTH : THE ROLE OF COMPETITION, MARKETS, AND REGULATION ~ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 3, 2006Criticism of the U.S. health care system for its high cost and uneven coverage is abundant. The World Health Organization (WHO) ranked the U.S. health system thirty seventh out of the 191 WHO member countries—approximately equal in [...]
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Use of communities of practice in business and health care sectors: A systematic review
Use of communities of practice in business and health care sectors: A systematic review ~ Background: Since being identified as a concept for understanding knowledge sharing, management, and creation, communitiesof practice (CoPs) have become increasingly popular within the health sector. The CoP concept has been used in the businesssector for over 20 years, but the [...]
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A Commodity Chains Framework for Analyzing Global Industries
A Commodity Chains Framework for Analyzing Global Industries ~ In global capitalism, economic activity is not only international in scope, it is also global inorganization. “Internationalization” refers to the geographic spread of economic activities acrossnational boundaries. As such, it is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, it has been a prominent feature ofthe world economy since [...]
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The Voice of Industry Speaks on Agility Priorities
The Voice of Industry Speaks on Agility Priorities ~ Two hundred industrial organizations recently ranked their high prioritychange proficiency issues in a Voice of Industry survey. The survey isnotable in that the majority of respondents were presidents, vice presidents, and other top level executives; and that it provides a pictureof contrasting priorities among eight different [...]
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Critical Business Practices for Agility
Critical Business Practices for Agility ~ Enterprise Agility is not something that happens becausetechnology is put in place, or because machines areconfigured differently, or even because all businesssystems are reengineered for reconfigurability. Agileenterprise occurs because of business practices.Business practices are the way we do things, and whywe do them that way. Explicit practices are codified [...]
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Agent technology used for monitoring of automotive production
Agent technology used for monitoring of automotive production ~ Today’s automotive plants are equipped with heterogeneous software systems for different types of tasks, bothfactory planning and manufacturing operations. IT systems used for factory planning are summarized as ‘digitalfactory tools’. On the operating level, software systems are not yet integrated and thus support separate tasks such [...]
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Resources for the Small Flight Department
Resources for the Small Flight Department ~ San afterthought by the boss’s secretaryand, in one case, a flight attendant.Jet powered heavy iron flown exclusively byparttime pilots and temps retained as needed on a perflight basis. Revolving doorsfor “chief pilots” and “maintenance supervisors” and, thus, no operational continuity.A total absence of operations manuals or anyform of [...]
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