The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at http://www.emerald-library.com IJOPM 19‚11 Continuous improvement and the mini-company concept Jan de Leede and Jan Kees Looise University of Twente‚ The Netherlands Keywords Continuous improvement‚ Teamwork‚ Organizational design‚ Case studies‚ Kaizen Abstract The key issue of continuous improvement (CI) seems to be the problem of combining extensive employee involvement with market orientation and continuation of CI
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Chapter 11 Organizations as Political Arenas and Political Agents Introduction: Wal-mart Founder: Sam Walton Started in 1945 as proprietor of 2nd best variety store in small Arkansas town Over 2 million associates > 90% of American households shop at Wal-mart Wal-mart effect: multiple ways this organization influences consumers‚ vendors‚ employees‚ community‚ environment Example of Wal-mart’s political influence: disappearing cardboard packaging for deodorants; costing
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Working Capital Policies FIN/571 April 1‚ 2013 Jim Ciaramella | | | | Introduction Lawrence Sports is a 20 million dollar company that manufactures sports equipment. Mayo is a major customer of Lawrence Sport ’s and has defaulted on 80% of the payments for goods and services for the weeks of March 17-23‚ and March 24-30 and Lawrence can’t expect any money from mayo until weeks April 14-20. Lawrence has borrowed money from
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Account and Finance AF 2504 Introduction to Business Law Case Analysis Report Case Study: FISHER v BELL [1961]1 Q.B.394 Submitted to Lecturer: Sandy SABAPATHY Team members: __________________ __________________ __________________ __________________ __________________ 1. Case Name: Fisher v. Bell 2. Is it a civil case or criminal case? Under the common law system‚ Various cases can be broadly divided in to two categories which are criminal case and civil case. Referring
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17/07/2013 Finance Semester 2‚ 2013 Seminar 1 Introduction to finance & ethics in finance Ross et al. chapter 1. These powerpoint slides have been adapted from Frank Finn Professor of Finance Tom Smith’s (UQ) teaching material of “Three key finance ideas of valuation” and Dr. Scott McCarthy’s teaching material. 1 What is Finance? • Every business is a process of acquiring and disposing assets: real assets and financial assets. • Finance is a science of valuation and management
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* Bill’s Need to Know: Personal Finance or Tennis? During the Christmas break of his final year at Ohio State‚ Bill Bledsoe plans to put together his résumé in order to seek full-time employment as a medical technician during the spring semester. To help Bill prepare for the job interview process‚ his older brother has arranged for him to meet with a friend‚ Cathy Smith‚ who has worked as a medical technician since her graduation from Ohio State 2 years earlier. Cathy gives him numerous pointers
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Finance Case Study: Maru Batting Center Professor: Jeannette Monaco Student: Lydia Lin Organized Chart Segments / Features Little Leaguers Summer Sluggers Elite Ballplayers Entertainment Seeker Description Boys and girls age 6-15 Adults‚ price sensitive Men women age 16-35‚ elite players No particular interest‚ price sensitive Motivation Learn how to play Practice for the baseball season Practice skills Night out‚ leisure activities Time period in the year Preseason months of Feb and March Summer
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SOCIETY AND CULTURE RESEARCH REPORT | FASHION FAUX PAS | Overtime‚ how fashion choices have changed for adolescent girls and what impact does it have on their identity formation? | | SALLY LEMON | | | FASHION FAUX PAS FOCUS QUESTION OUTLINE For my research report‚ I have chosen to research the evolution of society’s fashion on the adolescent girl. Through the rising of hemlines and revealing garments‚ to discover how it has impacted on forming an adolescent girl’s own self
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Finance - Case Study Situation - Computron (expansion Program) A. Sales have been below forecasted numbers B. cost have been higher than projected C. They suffered a profit loss instead of a gain D. Management‚ investors and directors are concerned. E. It’d tsking s long time for dvertisement programs to get across all business units‚ including sales and operations Problem - Computron is faced with alot of problems that have impacted their business and caused them to suffer financially
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Chapter 18 - Liability and Liquidity Management Fin 698 Fall 2012 Prof. Anderson HW #7b: chapter 18: 3‚ 10‚ 11‚ 16 and 17. (These appear in the book on pages 568-572.) Solutions for End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 1. What are the benefits and costs to an FI of holding large amounts of liquid assets? Why are Treasury securities considered good examples of liquid assets? A major benefit to an FI of holding a large amount of liquid assets is that it can offset any unexpected and
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