... for virtual leadership effectiveness is essential and vital to organisational success. The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse the required competencies for virtual team leadership and its effectiveness in an organisation. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted case study methodology...

... provides valuable resources to help organizations succeed in their benchmarking efforts. John Williams can be contacted at: john.s.williams@dcma.mil © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 A number of benchmarking categories covering various layers of the business and manufacturing structure...

... generational developments (Kyrö, 2003 ; Moriarty and Smallman, 2009). Could these be a reflection or approximation of its underlying theory? Could such a theory be deduced from careful synthesis of the exemplary characteristics of benchmarking praxis? Benchmarking Theory Organizations Taxonomy...

... and emergent nature of the entrepreneurial organization and how benchmarking can contribute to a newly established firm's chances for survival and prosperity. The paper incorporates the concept of a sustainable competitive advantage in the discussion, and offers organizational culture as being the imperfectly...

...Ramamurthy Ramabadron; James W. Dean, Jr; James R. Evans Explains that benchmarking ‐ the process of identifying superior performance or practices of other organizations and internalizing such knowledge for competitive advantage ‐ is performed typically on a project‐by‐project basis. Argues...

... the organization’s goals, the effect of different actions towards these goals and the way in which these actions should be implemented. First,highlights the importance of an organization’s knowledge base by demonstrating the relationship that exists between strategy formulation and organization learning...