Download or read book The Impact of Management Practices and Organizational Structure on Firm Performance written by Stefan Jelinek and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Industrial Management, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Information, Organisation und Management / und CDTM), language: English, abstract: "The most significant factor in America, leading to high production at low cost, is efficient management." This quotation is not from a longitudinal, empirical study, but it is stated by the British Productivity Council in the context of the Marshal Plan - the Anglo - American productivity mission in 1951. Hence, one question might be: Is there indeed a strong link between management practices and firm performance? A further question might be: How American management practices rank compared with European or Asian management practices? And what role plays organizational structure on firm performance? Are there interacted effects between management practices and organizational structure? Insights into the impact of management practices and organizational structure on firm performance are mainly based on theories. Consequently, there is a strong need to measure management practices and organizational structure across countries and cultures to verify theoretical hypotheses with empirical data. This paper sheds some empirical light on these topics as well as on the distribution of management practices and organizational structures across countries and industries. This book is based on a unique data set with more than 3500 management interviews to document and analyze the influence of management practices and organizational structure on firm performance (Bloom 2010). Furthermore, the role and impact of organizational change is obtained and compared to a strand of literature. This book relates to a number of strands in the literature. It builds on and extends the paper of Nick Bloom and John van Reenen (2007) "Measuring and explaining management practices across countries and industries." Furthermore, this paper is related to the paper of Marianne Bertrand and Antoinette Sc
Download or read book Industrial Organization written by Kenneth George and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As most economies remain caught in a global recession, that shows little sign of abatement, the importance of maintaining a flourishing industrial sector for the economic wellbeing of a country has rarely been so relevant. Industrial Organisation has long served as a basic introduction to this subject. The book is concerned with economic problems and policy issues that arise from the activities of firms. The authors reject the traditional micro-economic analysis of market structure in favour of studying conduct and performance in the context of macro-economic policy and the environment which this provides for firms. Substantially revised and updated to take account of developments in the subject since the publication of the last edition, Industrial Organization includes four new chapters which reflect the major new areas of interest in industrial economics over the last decade. These include the increasing importance of the service sector and problems of relatively low productivity growth within this, and questions relating to increased levels of international competition in a more open world economy. This is a comparative study, drawing on empirical evidence from the UK, USA and the EC. Mathematical and econometric requirements are kept to a minimum, and the text has long been regarded as the most accessible introduction to the subject.
Download or read book Corporate Governance and Organisational Performance written by Naeem Tabassum and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishing a corporate governance strategy that promotes the efficient use of organisational resources is instrumental in the economic growth of a country, as well as the successful management of firms. This book reviews existing literature and identifies board structural features as key variables of an effective corporate governance system, establishing a multi-theoretical model that links Board structural characteristics with firm performance. It then, using a comprehensive empirical study of 265 companies listed on the Karachi Stock exchange, tests this conceptual model. This research serves as a significant milestone, reflecting the socio-economic setting of emerging economies, and highlighting the need for the corporate sector in emerging markets to move away from a 'tick-box' culture. It argues that the sector needs to implement corporate governance as a tool to mitigate business risks; appoint and empower non-executive directors to achieve an effective monitoring of management; and establish their own ethical and governance principles, applicable to the Board of Directors. Based on an extensive data base, collected painstakingly over five years, this book offers new insights and conceptual framework for further research in this area. Given the breadth and width of the research, it is a useful source of future reference for students, researchers and policy makers.
Download or read book The Impact of Management Practices and Organizational Structure on Firm Performance written by Stefan Jelinek and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Industrial Management, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Information, Organisation und Management / und CDTM), language: English, abstract: “The most significant factor in America, leading to high production at low cost, is efficient management.” This quotation is not from a longitudinal, empirical study, but it is stated by the British Productivity Council in the context of the Marshal Plan - the Anglo - American productivity mission in 1951. Hence, one question might be: Is there indeed a strong link between management practices and firm performance? A further question might be: How American management practices rank compared with European or Asian management practices? And what role plays organizational structure on firm performance? Are there interacted effects between management practices and organizational structure? Insights into the impact of management practices and organizational structure on firm performance are mainly based on theories. Consequently, there is a strong need to measure management practices and organizational structure across countries and cultures to verify theoretical hypotheses with empirical data. This paper sheds some empirical light on these topics as well as on the distribution of management practices and organizational structures across countries and industries. This book is based on a unique data set with more than 3500 management interviews to document and analyze the influence of management practices and organizational structure on firm performance (Bloom 2010). Furthermore, the role and impact of organizational change is obtained and compared to a strand of literature. This book relates to a number of strands in the literature. It builds on and extends the paper of Nick Bloom and John van Reenen (2007) “Measuring and explaining management practices across countries and industries.” Furthermore, this paper is related to the paper of Marianne Bertrand and Antoinette Schoar (2003), “Managing with style: the effect of managers on firm policies“ in which the effect of individual managers on firm performance is analyzed. This paper also builds on major organizational theories from Chandler, Lawrence and Lorsch and Picot. The empirical data has been obtained in a London School of Economics, McKinsey & Company and Stanford University joint project. The author of the book was part of a team of 35 international MBA, Ph.D students and professionals from top business schools around the world and conducted 201 management interviews himself.
Download or read book Enhancing Organizational Performance written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-04-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Total quality management (TQM), reengineering, the workplace of the twenty-first centuryâ€"the 1990s have brought a sense of urgency to organizations to change or face stagnation and decline, according to Enhancing Organizational Performance. Organizations are adopting popular management techniques, some scientific, some faddish, often without introducing them properly or adequately measuring the outcome. Enhancing Organizational Performance reviews the most popular current approaches to organizational changeâ€"total quality management, reengineering, and downsizingâ€"in terms of how they affect organizations and people, how performance improvements can be measured, and what questions remain to be answered by researchers. The committee explores how theory, doctrine, accepted wisdom, and personal experience have all served as sources for organization design. Alternative organization structures such as teams, specialist networks, associations, and virtual organizations are examined. Enhancing Organizational Performance looks at the influence of the organization's norms, values, and beliefsâ€"its cultureâ€"on people and their performance, identifying cultural "levers" available to organization leaders. And what is leadership? The committee sorts through a wealth of research to identify behaviors and skills related to leadership effectiveness. The volume examines techniques for developing these skills and suggests new competencies that will become required with globalization and other trends. Mergers, networks, alliances, coalitionsâ€"organizations are increasingly turning to new intra- and inter-organizational structures. Enhancing Organizational Performance discusses how organizations cooperate to maximize outcomes. The committee explores the changing missions of the U.S. Army as a case study that has relevance to any organization. Noting that a musical greeting card contains more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950, the committee addresses the impact of new technologies on performance. With examples, insights, and practical criteria, Enhancing Organizational Performance clarifies the nature of organizations and the prospects for performance improvement. This book will be important to corporate leaders, executives, and managers; faculty and students in organizational performance and the social sciences; business journalists; researchers; and interested individuals.
Download or read book Company Strategy and Organizational Design RLE Organizations written by Roger Mansfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting strategies and structures right for changing market conditions and successfully matching strategies and structures with each other, are crucial. This volume reviews and develops the extensive literature in the areas of business policy and organizational behaviour, taking the subject further by breaking down boundaries between subject areas within management studies; by adopting a dynamic approach to organizational issues; and by synthesizing the disparate, often confusing research findings in this area into a general theoretical approach which can be assimilated by managers faced with the problems of the real world.
Download or read book Industry Structure and Organisational Performance written by Ismail Soile and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considerable efforts have been made in Europe and America to investigate the relationship between industry structure and organisation performance. This study extends such investigation to Nigeria. Results are presented for tests of the two contending hypotheses of market structure on the Nigerian commercial banking industry using pooled data for the period of 1990 to 2000. Generally, the study finds evidence of a significant and positive relationship between concentration and profitability in the Nigerian banking industry and concludes that banking products and services in Nigeria are inefficiently priced. The study cautioned against the use of mergers and acquisitions as well as other related policies to managing banking crisis as these might lead to further concentration of the industry.
Download or read book Industrial Organisation written by Kenneth Desmond George and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues to be the best introduction available to industrial organization and its importance to the economic wellbeing of a country.
Download or read book Market Structure and Performance written by J. Cubbin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Management Perceptions Industry Structure and Company Performance written by Janine Wong and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Truncated abstract] Issues associated with competition, corporate strategic action and performance have been addressed from three general academic perspectives marketing, business policy and strategic management, and industrial organisation economics. Using the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) paradigm from industrial organisation economics, Porter (1980) developed the five forces model to analyse industry structure which determined one of three generic strategies a company should choose from to create a sustainable defendable position and outperform competitors. Porter (1980) argues corporate response to structure as the critical variable in determining industry and company performance. Here, the unit of analysis is the industry and Porter (1980) implicitly assumes managers within an industry define and observe the same objective environment. In marketing, Hunt s (2010) resource advantage (R-A) theory of competition asserts that the resources of firms within an industry are heterogeneous and immobile and therefore, managers must make strategic choices and these choices influence firm performance. Resources include market and competitor intelligence and some firms will have a comparative advantage in information that yields marketplace positions of competitive advantage and thus, superior financial performance. The unit of analysis is the manager and the manager or the top management team is central to the evaluation of environmental conditions which form the basis of strategic action. Consequently, managers develop strategies on the basis of imperfect perception of information. This study investigated the degree of congruence of individual perceptions of structure, conduct and performance within a company and within an industry. It is also concerned with examining the degree of congruence between the objective reality and individual perceptions (i.e. subjective measures) of structure, conduct and performance. More importantly, what is the best predictor of company performance objective data as implied by Porter s (1980) five forces of competition model or individual perceptions of structure as implied by Hunt s R-A theory of competition?...
Download or read book Structure Conduct and Performance written by Leonard W. Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial Economics and Organisation written by Prof. Dr. Wan Sulaiman Bin Wan Yusoff and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prof. Dr. Wan Sulaiman Bin Wan Yusoff Deputy Rector of Student Affair, Internationalization and Alumni INSANIAH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ALOR STAR KEDAH, MALAYSIA.
Download or read book Time Based Manufacturing written by Joseph A. Bockerstette and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough review of how to implement time-based management principles in manufacturing environments. Table of Contents--TBM Principles; TBM is a New Manufacturing Paradigm; The Power of TBM Comes From Understanding and Managing the Product Supply System (PSS); The Customer Holds the Key to Competitive Advantage; PSS Management Begins With a Product portfolio; Daily Demand Drives PSS; Synchronization; The PSS Must be Capable and Reliable; The PSS is a Series of Linked Suppliers; Teams Drive the PSS Organization; Information is the PSS Integrator; Nothing Happens Without the Right Performance Measures; TBM Execution: Diagnosing the Current Situation; Redesigning the PSS for Breakthrough Improvement; Implementing TBM; TBM Case Studies: Process; Repetitive; Make to Order. Index. Illustrated.
Download or read book Market Structure and Industrial Performance written by Claudio R. Frischtak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Industry Structure Conduct Performance written by Richard E. Caves and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategy Structure and Economic Performance written by Richard P. Rumelt and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised thesis on interrelationships between strategies of production diversification, business organizational change, and the level of economic performance of the enterprise (investment return) - presents data for 500 large firms in the USA, showing that performance is related to the way in which a firm has chosen to relate new ventures to ongoing activities. Bibliography pp. 225 to 227, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book Introduction to Business written by Lawrence J. Gitman and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond.
