by
Hamada, Kazuki.
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658.00952 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
With increased competition among business groups, companies need to enhance the value of their business and effectively manage individual firms. This book explores and elucidates business group and inter-firm management in Japanese environments, both theoretically and practically through case studies, survey research and other methodologies. In considering the concept of the Keiretsu in Japan, as well as other management methods employed by Japanese companies, this book provides extensive coverage on uniquely Japanese management methods. Examples are the application of evaluation system, execu.
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Szulanski, Gabriel.
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658.4038 22
Publication Date
2003
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Why don't best practices spread within firms? This book explains that the transfer of practices is a complex phenomenon, and demonstrates the range of barriers to transferring best practices within a firm.
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Woodside, Arch G.
Call Number
658.044 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
Organizational Culture, Business-to-Business Relationships, and Interfirm Networks provides deep understanding about business-to-business and organizational relationships. Studies in this volume identify real-life relationship paradoxes and explain how firms manage, not solve, these paradoxes. Extended chapter lengths allow for a deeper analysis into the structures and dynamics of business relationships. Two research reports by Sergio Biggemann present three-years of intensive face-to-face data collection on how interfirm relations form, operate, and change; Biggemans reports include unedited direct quotes from suppliers, focal firms, and customers on their interfirm relationshipsthese studies provide a deep understanding of quality relationships. In three separate but related reports Sylvie Laforet shows that making mistakes is inherent in organizational innovationsunderstanding how organizations work through such mistakes is an important key to understanding success versus failure in innovation outcomes. Volume 16 is for readers who want to go deep into how B2B relationships actually work, and frequently, do not work.
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Everett, Ken.
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658.044 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
Ken Everett proposes the network as the organization of the future, and he wrote this book, with the help of five colleagues, to help the architects of such future organizations. He started a network of necessity - limited financial resources - but then encountered surprising benefits. He discovered networked organizations to be resilient, innovative, and leader-full and that these characteristics arise out of the design. This potential, he says, applies equally to networks of independent associates as it does to traditional organizations willing to adopt a new style of leadership - a style closer to "hosting" than "commanding." This is a practice-based book: Its developmental model was earned through experience. The model lays out three phases: from connections to communities to coalitions, or from "doing fine" to "getting better" to "getting better at getting better." Ken Everett illustrates these claims with real-life examples. He describes how a family company with only 3 employees grew to be represented in 30 countries via 300 colleagues. The potential of the networked organization is new, and that's what this book is about.
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by
Boyatzis, Richard E.
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658.4092 BOY
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2008 2005
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by
Brem, Alexander.
Call Number
658.701 23
Publication Date
2012
Summary
Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers. Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries. This is a result of the progressing reduction in the depth of value creation of manufacturers and the increasing transfer of know-how towards suppliers. In multilevel business-to-business relationships, suppliers often have the best or the only access and comprehensive knowledge about the end users. Therefore, suppliers determine the scope of possible innovations, which most companies do not actively use. This unique volume provides a comprehensive overview of theories, concepts and especially empirical results on open innovation and the integration of suppliers. For this, authors from all over the world present their latest research results offering fascinating insights into collaborative approaches with suppliers.
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by
McKee, Annie, 1955-
Call Number
658.4092 MCK
Publication Date
2008
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