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Most of family-owned enterprises start their operations in the traditional businesses such as manufacturing, trading, or providing services. Some of them are very successful and become major global players in the industries, for example, SC Johnson, Coming, and Li & Fung. However, technological changes often have impacts on the behaviors of the market. New technology can add tremendous capacity for a firm to pursue economy of scale or it can reduce marginal cost to zero.
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Over the past decade, local transportation agencies have increasingly re-designed urban arterials, their cities' major surface streets, to better accommodate a wide range of users. At the same time, a growing number of agencies are using performance measurement, the tracking and reporting of specific transportation-related variables, to evaluate and document their impacts. This report attempts to understand the role that performance measurement plays in design decision-making for urban arterial streets.
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by Charles Staerkle. Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-116).
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The worldwide telephone industry is in transition-from traditional telecom service provider to broadband service provider. NTT, Japan's leading telecom company, must establish a new source of revenue that will compensate for declining income from fixed-phone service. The company needs to implement innovation in the organization in order to create a competitive breakthrough service while it struggles to be more efficient in the existing telecom service. In the U.S., several companies have successfully implemented innovations.
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Many successful innovative companies are acquired and become absorbed into larger more structured organizations. The innovation capabilities of the company change in the new environment depending on the extent to which they are nurtured or overridden. This thesis looks at one particular story of such an acquisition and follows its progress after it has been formally integrated into the acquiring company. More than five years after the acquisition the company's innovation is struggling, perhaps even more so in recent years.
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The succession of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has attracted growing attention from social scientists and management researchers. CEO succession provides a context in which individual decisions and agency, stakeholder interests and conflict, and the organizational needs for legitimacy and acceptance in the large environment come together. Most of these researches, however, have been conducted in the U.S., where the board of directors has the legal and actual responsibility for appointing and replacing the CEO.
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Companies that develop new products increasingly outsource product design, a trend that has prompted much concern but little evidence on its effectiveness. This dissertation uses a combination of interviews, cross-case analysis, and survey data to examine the meaning, measurement, and causes of success in one type of outsourced development: design and innovation consulting. The first study identifies the many dimensions of success and demonstrates that consultants, clients, and scholars prioritize them differently.
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To expand on the understanding of effective leadership and management, this study provides new evidence on the relation between employee satisfaction, project success, and managerial characteristics for the optimization of both. During the twentieth century, many have tried to uncover what it really means to be a good leader and to determine if it is possible to identify or create such people. In the managerial context, researchers have looked at project success and employee satisfaction as potential measures of leadership effectiveness.
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This thesis explores the factors contributing to the successes and failures of internal corporate ventures. There are many large companies today using internal corporate ventures as a way to develop new businesses and products while creating potential growth for the parent company. Large companies believe that they can create these new businesses by combining the agility of a small startup with the corporate resources of the large firm. However, economic pressures, corporate bureaucracy, and lack of entrepreneurial experience can significantly affect the performance of these ventures.
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A study was performed to determine possible factors that contribute to successful implementation of new technologies in developing nations. Engineers and other inventors have devoted great effort to Appropriate Technology design over the last two decades, but few comprehensive case studies currently exist examining factors that lead to technology success. Existing studies of appropriate technology were summarized and a quantitative model was created to tabulate the data.
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