... investment decisions in terms of effectiveness as the provided ranking of countries candidates for the investments is more realistic and takes into account more decision dimensions. Sustainable development TOPSIS Entrepreneurship Business development Immunization Impact investing The Global...

... helmets, not harder ones (Sterngold, 2010). Talent development Business wisdom Capabilities Organizational learning Business improvement Business development Learning organizations Six factors prompt this article. First, we can learn a lot about management from watching kids in action...

.... This literature review summarises previous research that informs this study, in the areas of business performance and growth and business planning, and in female entrepreneurship. Business growth Strategies Female entrepreneurs Business planning Business development Entrepreneurialism Women Small...

... growth ceiling Initial public offering Resource based theory Entrepreneurial growth Human resource management in entrepreneurial firms Human resource strategy Innovation in new ventures Business formation Business development Organizational growth has become, in many ways, a “black box...

... of corporate diversification. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Dynamic capabilities Corporate diversification Firm performance Diversification Corporate strategy Organizations Business development Taiwan In order to accomplish the research objective, this study attempts to propose...

... will harm many others, as the global crisis has eloquently demonstrated. Denise L. Fleck can be contacted at: denise@coppead.ufrj.br © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Business development Organizations Large enterprises On account of the 2007‐2008 global financial crisis...

... for business management, especially in turbulent times Management theory Business planning Business development Organizational change Peter Drucker (1994) proposed a universal “theory of the business”. It suggested a new business paradigm built around organisation assumptions. It sought...

... excluded, with a resulting sample size of 73 responses. Entrepreneurialism Business development Corporate ventures Individual behaviour In the early stages of establishing a business, the founding entrepreneur often is the business. For this reason much attention has been paid...

... UP Limited 2003 --> Business measurement (quality) Business development It is over ten years since Robert Kaplan and David Norton’s Harvard Business Review article appeared on the balanced scorecard and the field has moved on from a general dissatisfaction with financial...

... businesses to adapt themselves naturally to their environment which is changing at an ever‐increasing rate. Modelling Business development Models are vital tools representing the essential characteristics of reality as well as imaginary ideals, thereby playing an important role in decision making...

... Business development Coaching Leadership Organizations Sport Teamwork Turn to the sports page of virtually any newspaper and the message is the same: At the very core of performance, excellence is an overwhelming passion to push the boundaries of what has historically been deemed possible...

.... There is a problem with studies like these. In their concern to establish general characteristics of managers, they overlook, or at least de‐emphasize, two key points: © MCB UP Limited 1995 Business development Information Managers R&D Most managers would agree that good information...

... section listing over 500 sources of Chinese information providers and organizations. This publication will be of particular use to those companies wishing to contact various organizations in order to access specific types of Chinese information. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Business development...

... providers who have identified that information can be marketed as a business commodity in its own right. The majority of these information services have been produced in English in order to attract international clients and foreign exchange. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Business development Europe...

... Business development Economics Marketing Profit If you ask most businessmen what they think economics is about,their answer will be economic forecasting. They don′t think very much of economic forecasting – although they go on thinking they need it– and so they do not think very much...

..., was also found to support an increase in small business sales. © MCB UP Limited 1994 To confirm the presence of life cycle stages in small businesses a questionnaire was developed that contained both closed and open‐ended questions addressing major topics of small business development...

... anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Business development Industry Product design Research Simulation Training Virtual reality It has been called cyberspace, virtual environment, simulations,artificial worlds and virtual reality...

... Alliances Business development Foreign investment Joint ventures USA ...

... of growing firms compared to “stalled” firms and suggests ways for private companies to gain benefits like those public flotation would provide. Suggestions are designed to stimulate the positive influences of going public without disposal of privately held shares. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Business...

... growth rules and the eight characteristics of fast‐growth companies. It is suggested that the way to sustain growth and avoid problems, is to develop service brands,which will be the growth area of the 1990s. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Management Growth Business development 52 MANAGEMENT...