.... Knight (1999) believes that four factors combine in an organization to increase market value. These are: © MCB UP Limited 2002 Over a decade ago research undertaken in the UK, entitled Training in Britain: A Study of Funding, Activity and Attitudes (HMSO, 1989), revealed that 85 per...

...Jorge Costa Reviews the concept of environmental scanning, presents definitions of the main concepts in the area and discusses the importance of systematic external analysis to organizations. Also seeks to provide an informed and practical overview of the environmental scanning process. However...

... Organizations Yield The key word meaning analysis enabled the issues in Table I to be identified. These are listed by frequency of occurrence in 12 publications. As Table I illustrates, the majority of authors agree that yield management is concerned with the maximization of room revenue...

... recent approaches based on "roles, "expectations" and "functions", which tend to follow Mintzberg,[2], was prompted by a concern to work from an actuality, however selective. The study does not concern itself with any considerations of organisation effectiveness and is primarily descriptive. The aim...