1. Makadok (2001) emphasizes the distinction between capabilities and resources by defining capabilities as “a special type of resource‚ specifically an organizationally embedded non-transferable firm-specific resource whose purpose is to improve the productivity of the other resources possessed by the firm” [4](p389). “[R]esources are stocks of available factors that are owned or controlled by the organization‚ and capabilities are an organization’s capacity to deploy resources”:[3] p. 35. Essentially
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In the Hunger Games‚ there are many class distinctions between the tributes‚ their districts‚ and‚ of course‚ the oppressive Capitol. In multiple places we can see the class distinctions made clear by Suzanne Collins. You may be wondering what “classes” there might be in the Hunger Games‚ or what even a “class” is. The “classes” that I am talking about are the groups or types of people there are in Panem and how this affects the plot events of the story. In the following paragraphs there will be
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Introduction The simple question on the distinction between management and leadership is common‚ yet there are so many different answers that create confusion by academic research. In my research‚ I use Kotter’s definition because I find it clear and consistent with the definition by most researches that I will discuss later in the paper. Management is to provide order‚ consistency and stability so mangers are task oriented. On the other hand‚ leadership is to produce change and movement‚ seeking
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Teaching Period 2‚ 2014 MKT20012 Services Marketing Assessment 1: Service encounter report Word limit: 1750 (+/- 10%) Due date: 9am AEST Monday 11 August (Week 6) Weighting: 20% Assessment overview Understanding the nature of services and service customers is a core competency that marketing managers must develop. Managers that can be thoughtful about how their service customers are behaving‚ thinking and feeling are more likely to achieve successful outcomes. This assessment task is
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Introduction: Jesus Christ‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ and Margaret Thatcher are among those who have received the distinction of a "great leader" and having "leadership abilities". Yet none of them has been referred to as a "manager" or being in "the order of management". In the words of Warren B. Bennis‚ this is because "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality"‚ which these visionaries accomplished. In this respect‚ the concept of leadership and management are not synonymous
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BOH TEA HOUSE CHAPTER 2 2.1 Purpose and History of Company BOH Plantations was founded in 1929 by J.A. Russell‚ a British businessman during the British colonial era in Malaya which is the current Malaysia. He was optimistic of the tea plantation business due to huge demands of tea in the whole world during that time. As a result‚ he applied and he granted an official license for his first tea garden in Habu‚ Cameron Highlands. The purpose of BOH Plantations is to supply and sell black tea
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Bureaucratic organization has been manifested in the human administration system for over 5000 years. The history has written that such organization has been invented in the times of the Egyptian dominant. The creation of a bureaucratic system raise from the monarchy‚ the ruling of one principle monarch has established a figure that can be seen as the start of the bureaucratic organization. The early establishment of bureaucratic administration were seen and put in to practice in the system of
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Harry Potter and the class distinctions in U.K. The series of Harry Potter are best seller all over the world. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ‚the stage of this story‚ is one of the most famous school. However paying attention to the school and education system in the series of Harry Potter‚ we can see the “class distinctions” by status and blood. And also there are this “class distinctions” in U.K. in particular about education. Before comparing education in U.K. and “the Harry
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Topic: Hyponymy: One type of branching lexical hierarchies; and a distinction between hyponymy and meronymy Table of Content I. Introduction 2 II. Hyponymy 2 III. Distinction between Hyponymy and Meronymy 3 III. 1: Meronymy 3 III. 2: The distinction 4 IV. Bibliography 4 I. Introduction Every day we are confronted with lexical hierarchies in our correspondences‚ without actually thinking about it. One type of branching lexical hierarchies is the taxonomy‚ which structures the vocabulary
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Organization Studies http://oss.sagepub.com/ Social Remembering and Organizational Memory Michael Rowlinson‚ Charles Booth‚ Peter Clark‚ Agnes Delahaye and Stephen Procter Organization Studies 2010 31: 69 originally published online 12 November 2009 DOI: 10.1177/0170840609347056 The online version of this article can be found at: http://oss.sagepub.com/content/31/1/69 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: European Group for Organizational Studies Additional
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