Managerial Dilemmas In Developing Countries

Author : Malcolm J. M. Cooper,Malcolm J.M. Cooper,Athula Gnanapala
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527532502

Get Book

Managerial Dilemmas in Developing Countries by Malcolm J. M. Cooper,Malcolm J.M. Cooper,Athula Gnanapala Pdf

Since organizations and industries are the catalysts for sustainable development, managing organizations and industries along with resource protection dilemmas is critical for developing countries. This volume brings together contributions from experts and new researchers on managerial dilemmas in developing countries, and is divided into five parts: namely, organizational development; human resource management; consumer behaviour; finance; and tourism and hospitality. The chapters in the first section provide empirical insights into e-learning systems, information systems for decision-making processes, business reengineering, and performance efficiency. The second part explores the role of human resource, organization downsizing, work-life balance, fair treatment and a good working environment, job satisfaction and job stress, the big five personality traits, and psychological contract and employment. The next section investigates bank interest rates, insurance policies, organic foods in consumer behaviour, and a marketing value chain analysis of cinnamon. Studies of the effect of financial development, foreign direct investment on economic and endogenous growth, and the effect of institutional excellence and information efficiency on stock market development make up the fourth part of the book. The fifth section then embraces studies of the impact of tourist guides on tourist satisfaction, the behavioural characteristics of solo female travellers, community participation in tourism, and the unplanned development of tourism.

Author : Alfred M. Jaeger,Rabindra Nath Kanungo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415035058

Get Book

Management in Developing Countries by Alfred M. Jaeger,Rabindra Nath Kanungo Pdf

Author : Gary J. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521457696

Get Book

Managerial Dilemmas by Gary J. Miller Pdf

Managerial Dilemmas extends the use of analytical techniques from organisational economics to the spheres of organisational culture and leadership in politics and business.

Author : Betty Jane Punnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136518560

Get Book

Management by Betty Jane Punnett Pdf

The global business world appears to be changing and there is an ever greater focus on developing countries. This change in the international business environment is not reflected in the range of management textbooks currently available, as most are written from a developed country perspective This book introduces and assesses the typical theories and management approaches that are popular in developed countries, from the perspective of managers in developing countries. A wide variety of countries, with many different environments and cultures are explored and the book covers key concepts, such as Economic development Planning and strategic management Operations management HRM Leadership With the added benefit of various pedagogical features and supplementary web materials, students taking classes requiring an understanding of management concepts will find Punnett’s book adds serious value. It could be used as core reading for a range of classes, including international business, management, development studies and managing in a developing country. Please click on the eResources tab for the supplementary web materials.

Author : O. Dwivedi,R. Khator,J. Nef
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230627390

Get Book

Managing Development in a Global Context by O. Dwivedi,R. Khator,J. Nef Pdf

Managing Development in a Global Context examines the complex relationship between management, development and globalization from a multidimensional perspective. Key authors in the field explore the historical record, the current global, characteristics of present developmental and managerial dilemmas, and possible future scenarios.

Author : Farhad Analoui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429842634

Get Book

Human Resource Management Issues in Developing Countries by Farhad Analoui Pdf

Published in 1998, this work brings together 17 individual papers written by academics, practioners and consultants who have dealt with human resource issues in various contexts and developing countries. It covers management, education and training and through these addresses ethnic and gender issues, financial markets in transition economies and agricultural development. Countries featuring in the studies include Bangladesh, Ghana, Pakistan, and Costa Rica - and the authors draw on their own experiences in these countries.

Author : R.B. Jain
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783866498358

Get Book

Governing development across cultures by R.B. Jain Pdf

The book is a critical examination and appraisal of the status, methodology and likely future trends of the emerging sub-discipline of “Governing Development” within the broader discipline of political science, leading to the application of “Good Governance” in the administration and development of the newly emerged nations during the later half of the twentieth century.

Author : Felix M. Edoho
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313095542

Get Book

Management Challenges for Africa in the Twenty-First Century by Felix M. Edoho Pdf

Edoho and his contributors examine the management challenges facing African governments and businesses on the eve of a new millennium. As the authors make clear, Africa's future is defined by how Africa does in the 21st century. For Africa, a major challenge is how to effectively and efficiently manage its vast wealth. Africa is not poor because it is poor—it is poor because it cannot manage its development process. The shortages of managerial knowledge, skills, and talents are pervasive. Consequently, the region lacks the ability to organize production and run operations effectively and efficiently. The task of developing managerial manpower in Africa is not only imperative, it is urgent. After outlining theoretical and applied perspectives on management, the volume examines the public and private sector planning and management. It then explores the globalization of management technology, provides case studies of African management dilemmas, looks at management ethics and morality, and concludes with an analysis of the role of management in African national development. As the authors make clear, abundant resources will not of themselves usher in an African economic renaissance. Africa needs skills to identify and analyze its resources, to undertake investment, and to establish and run all kinds of organizations. Until Africa develops its indigenous managerial talents, development will continue to be elusive, and the process traumatizing. An important resource for scholars, students, and policy makers involved with African economic development.

Author : Mark Giordano,John Butterworth
Publisher : CABI
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781845933265

Get Book

Community-based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries by Mark Giordano,John Butterworth Pdf

The fifteen chapters of this book analyse the living community-based water laws in Africa, Latin America and Asia and critically examine the interface between community-based water laws, formal water laws and a variety of other key institutional ingredients of on-going water resources management reform.

Author : Lee A. Tavis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Industrial promotion
ISBN : UCSD:31822023751878

Get Book

Power and Responsibility by Lee A. Tavis Pdf

Tavis, editor and co-editor of the series' first four volumes, summarizes his views on that issue and discusses at length not only the serious development gap between industrialized and developing countries, but also the widening gap within the developing countries themselves. He demonstrates how the institutions and individuals that are tied to the global economic/financial system must face the facts of bifurcated opportunities and separate them from the rhetoric on all sides.

Author : Betty Jane Punnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351795746

Get Book

Managing in Developing Countries by Betty Jane Punnett Pdf

This book considers management theories and approaches specifically in the context of developing countries. In recent years, international business scholarship has increased its focus on the developing world, which represents 80 percent of the global population and has doubled its share of value-added trade in the past two decades. This text will help readers to manage successfully in this region by learning to assess, apply, and adapt established practices in developing countries. Punnett begins by identifying the characteristics of the developing world—Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, India, Latin America, and the Middle East—and the companies therein to help students understand how the reality of these countries influences business and management. By tracking a fictional product through the internationalization process, students will navigate the challenges of operating an international company from a developing country base, using a traditional model of management focused on planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. They will also gain insight into ethical considerations likely to arise, such as differential treatment based on personal characteristics and age dispersion. Cases, discussion questions, personal stories, and end-of-chapter exercises will help readers to grapple with issues and test their learning. Complete with chapter objectives and "Lessons Learned" boxes to facilitate understanding, Managing in Developing Countries is an excellent supplement for international business or international management students with a special interest in the developing world.

Author : Ludovico Alcorta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134653560

Get Book

Flexible Automation in Developing Countries by Ludovico Alcorta Pdf

This book examines the extent of, and motives for, the diffusion of flexible automation (FA) at global level and then turns to the local and firm level, bringing together in-depth studies of sixty-two firms in Brazil, India, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela. Research focuses on the impact of computer-numerically-controlled machine tools on scale and scope by exploring changes in lot sizes and product variety (product scale and scope), total plant output (plant scale) and total firm output (firm scale). Barriers to setting up FA-based operations are discussed, as are factors which may affect a decision to locate in a developing country. The contributed studies reveal a relatively slow diffusion of FA in developing countries and it is demonstrated that while FA possibly increases scope, it also requires that plant output be increased in order to maintain efficiency. Alcorta concludes that the location in developing countries will probably only be viable for large domestic firms, multinationals seeking to relocate simple but labour intensive assembly processes and firms in countries with significant domestic markets. This work is unique in addressing the scale and scope issues in developing countries and in the wealth of information regarding machine tools which it provides. The data provided in the appendix includes official United Nations data, previously unpublished. This will be of use for all research into trends in the use of machine tools.

Author : Alexander Dreiling
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783835091085

Get Book

Myths, Narratives and the Dilemma of Managerial Support by Alexander Dreiling Pdf

Alexander Dreiling investigates which information should be provided to management in order to prepare managers to make better decisions and act accordingly.

Author : Peter J. Balint,Ronald E. Stewart,Anand Desai,Lawrence C. Walters
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781610910477

Get Book

Wicked Environmental Problems by Peter J. Balint,Ronald E. Stewart,Anand Desai,Lawrence C. Walters Pdf

"Wicked" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergent public values to generate contentious political stalemates; wicked problems in the environmental arena typically emerge from entrenched conflicts over natural resource management and over the prioritization of economic and conservation goals more generally. This new book examines past experience and future directions in the management of wicked environmental problems and describes new strategies for mitigating the conflicts inherent in these seemingly intractable situations. The book: reviews the history of the concept of wicked problems examines the principles and processes that managers have applied explores the practical limitations of various approaches Most important, the book reviews current thinking on the way forward, focusing on the implementation of "learning networks," in which public managers, technical experts, and public stakeholders collaborate in decision-making processes that are analytic, iterative, and deliberative. Case studies of forest management in the Sierra Nevada, restoration of the Florida Everglades, carbon trading in the European Union, and management of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania are used to explain concepts and demonstrate practical applications. Wicked Environmental Problems offers new approaches for managing environmental conflicts and shows how managers could apply these approaches within common, real-world statutory decision-making frameworks. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with managing environmental problems.

Author : The Aspen Institute
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781576756669

Get Book

The Aspen Institute Guide to Socially Responsible MBA Programs: 2008-2009 by The Aspen Institute Pdf

The Aspen Institute, a premier non-profit, research organization for corporate social responsibility, offers the first comprehensive guide to the world’s leading global MBA programs in CSR—an indispensable guide for prospective students, universities, hiring companies, and libraries. This guide provides an overview of how global MBA programs bring social impact management into their curricular and extracurricular programs. Social impact management, which includes environmental, ethical, and corporate governance issues, is the field of inquiry at the intersection of business needs and wider societal concerns that reflects their complex interdependency. Without an understanding of this interdependency, neither business nor the society in which it operates can thrive. Each year business schools from around the world strive to differentiate themselves and attract the best and the brightest future business leaders, while prospective MBAs are looking for a program that will provide effective management skills to succeed in the changing face of business. The bottom line is no longer exclusively dedicated to financial returns. Rather, business leaders must also consider the environmental and social impacts of their decisions in order to compete in today’s marketplace. The MBA schools that participate in the Aspen Institute’s survey, and are therefore highlighted in the Aspen Institute Guide for Socially Responsible MBA Programs: 2008-2009, are leaders in integrating these issues into their MBA curricula.