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Real Delegation: The Art of Hanging on and Letting Go
Tom McConalogueArgues that real delegation and empowerment are skills which haveto be learned. In the present turbulent environment, managers have tolearn to push decision making downwards, say…
Outsourcing Technology
Paul F. TakacIn their search for optimum performance and cost‐efficiency manyorganizations have been critically examining the value of the seeminglyever increasing cost of, and dependence on…
A Winning Service Offer in Car Rental
Christian Gronroos, Hans Ake SandDemonstrates how a service can be developed and differentiated intoa unique service offering: the augumented service offering. This modelis geared to the characteristics of…
The Enterprise School of Management: Turning Dreams into Reality
John PetersPresents a proposal for an “Enterprise School ofManagement” in which organizations can greatly increase theproductivity of their learning/training investments, by focusing ontheir…
Terrorism as an International Business Crisis
Laurence BartonDespite a global shift towards democracy, terrorism targetingcorporations continues at an alarming rate. British, American andJapanese corporations in particular have been the…
Business Success in the Middle East
Sami M. Abbasi, Kenneth W. HollmanThe Middle East has been overlooked by American companies as aregion in which to explore market opportunities. Suggests that this islargely due to ignorance of, and bias towards…
Spreadsheet Modelling: Guidelines for Model Development
David J. Caine, Andrew J. RobsonProvides guidelines to facilitate the development of usable,efficient and maintainable spreadsheet models. Whilst primarily writtenfor those who may be building models for a third…
Why Entrepreneurs Fail: How to Avoid the Traps
Richard L. OsborneWould‐be entrepreneurs who start or acquire businesses, driven bythe popular belief that executive competence can conquer all, are likelyto be disappointed. Executive competence…
Enhancing Your Advancement in the 1990s
Ken Matejka, Richard DunsingGives ten pointers for enhancing your career advancement. Thesesuggestions explore traditional areas of promotability but with new,current answers to what to do to get promoted in…
Managing in the Age of Discontinuity
John O. BundettBuilds on work within The Lawson Mardon Group – one of theworld′s largest packaging firms. Reviews, in particular, discontinuouschange and the relationship between responsiveness…
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- Brandon Randolph-Seng (Editor-in-Chief)