• Flexibility in international joint ventures (JVS) is important and a shared but split control style is recommended. • Chinese partners used to have learning as their main objective in an IJV but this has been replaced by profit, growth and market share. • The most significant shifts in control between partners involve human resource management and research and development. • When foreign part...

Considerable controversy surrounds the measurement of profit in company accounts. Continuous inflation has underlined some of the problems involved. Current accounting practice in the United Kingdom and Ireland also obscures the amount of direct tax that companies pay. Kay and King (1980, p. 193) comment that the "effect of this accounting practice is that many companies, especially in manufact...

Although many banks still report strong profits, important competitive, technological and regulatory changes force these companies to reconsider their strategies and structures. Among the current developments are initiatives to increase flexibility by reducing fixed costs and to leverage activities with competitors and other partners. Contrary to manufacturing industries, financial companies ha...

The orientation towards one of the marketing policies with a major impact in organizations providing healthcare services, requires a careful analysis of the needs and aspirations of customers, targeting those patients whose needs the service organization can achieve through the existing resources at the respective health facility, finding the most effective way of achieving benefits associated ...

This chapter describes a novel simulation model (InventSim) of the process of product invention. Invention is conceptualized as a process of directed search on a landscape of product design possibilities, by a population of profit-seeking inventors. The simulator embeds a number of real-world search heuristics of inventors, including anchoring, election, thought experiments, fitness sharing, im...

British involvement in the American mining frontier presents us with an interesting conundrum. On the one hand, British miners, managers, and engineers played a major role in bringing locally-owned and promoted ventures into short-term profit and successful long-term development. On the other hand, direct investments in the same mining districts undertaken by British owned companies met with ne...

Under the background of many non-profit organizations to investigate a study via participatory working methohd, and taking anti-poverty practice of Sichuan rural development organization, a non-profit organization with nearly 15-year-old history, as an example, main factors affecting the performance of their participatory working methods were analyzed by factor analysis method. The results show...

How to ensure that people share knowledge and increase performance with effective managerial knowledge has become the most important issue in organization. Making profit is not only the main purpose of non-profit organization but also pursuing efficiency what is same as enterprises. As a result, knowledge management is absolutely needed in operation of Non-Profit organization. However, the bigg...

The author of this paper seeks to explore what strategies are available for a multinational organization to manage knowledge, and to what extent a non-profit organization (NPO) have applied the same tools for managing knowledge within the organization as a multinational corporation (MNC). Through studying how knowledge flows within a MNC (Nonaka et al. and then analyzing the strategies for hand...