Cinque (2002) examines those transparency effects that have been claimed to point to the existence of restructuring in French and concludes that quantifier and adverb climbing depend not on restructuring but, rather, on an irrealis context. In this paper, we show that restructuring does not play an active role in explaining the existence of en `of-it' and y `there' climbing or long movement in ...

The aim of this research was to examine the organizational restructuring strategies and performance Aga-Khan Hospital Mombasa. study anchored on following theories: Lewin’s Change Management theory, Kotter’s change theory ADKAR model. Descriptive approach used. Target population for 78 management staff from hospital. To ensure efficiency, validity reliability data collection instrument tested. ...

Restructuring of specialized agricultural production systems is a widespread phenomenon in all developed economies. As such, fluecured tobacco production in southern Ontario is both typical in terms of its restructuring in response to capital intensification, but atypical in that restructuring has also occurred as a result of official pressures to reduce domestic cigarette consumption. This pap...

Strategic management of global information systems (IS) is increasingly important for the multinational investment banking industry that had originally utilized information networks crossing national borders for profit making purposes. Significant changes have occurred to the scope of strategic management of IS in modern organizations following major restructuring of the global business environ...

Facilities Management (FM) is very frequently described as, “an integrated approach to operating, maintaining, improving and adapting the buildings and infrastructure of an organisation in order to create an environment that strongly supports the primary objectives of that organisation”. The practical and strategic relevance of FM to organisations in all sectors of the economy is now increasing...

Survival of firms requires continuous search for new and a restructuring of the existing competitive advantages. These can come either from firms’ internal factors or from cooperation with the environment. Cooperation among firms commonly takes place through the formation of strategic alliances. However, such form of cooperation presents only one stage in the integration of business entities. I...

A high-level "access path" approach to database restructuring is described and contrasted with the "elementary operations" approach taken by mo~t restructuring systems. With the elementary operations approach, restructuring is viewed as a sequence of basic or "primitive" operations which manipulate a source database in order to convert it into a target database. In the access path approach, res...

Enterprise architecture (EA) enables organizations to coordinate, execute and sustain business transformations, which can be triggered in various ways, including restructuring and acquisitions. This article explains how Cisco Systems, a multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, with business primarily in networking equipment and related services, leverages its EA capabili...

..   The aim of this article is to explore the meaning of business leadership in the social sector. All too often businesses are confined to their profit-seeking role and only anecdotally make headlines on social issues. When such headlines do appear, we can quite safely bet that the terms “downsizing,” “restructuring” and “lay-off ” will be used. In a more discreet manner, nume...

This research investigates the current status of business process reengineering (BPR) in China by answering the following two questions: How do Chinese business executives view benefits, critical success factors, and major obstacles of BPR implementation? What are the managerial implications of BPR in China? Data were collected by means of survey questionnaires to senior managers in Beijing and...