1. INTRODUCTION In 2008, America broke out drastically sub prime mortgage crisis. A great deal of lending institutions, investment banks, and the mortgage financial companies gave up the mechanism of internal venture control and were pursuit of...
1. INTRODUCTION Contemporary organizations are increasingly relying on teams to support their mission and improve performance (Bolton, 1999). This is not surprising given the benefits associated with work groups, including increased responsiveness,...
1. INTRODUCTION Since the end of World War II, social and economic development has become a key policy concern throughout the world. Changes in political, economic and social structure have led to a number of radical responses towards social and...
1. INTRODUCTION Growing consumer demand for organic food (OF) has been attributed to various food scares including concerns about the increased use of genetically modified organisms in food production (Davies et al., 1995; Chryssohoidis and Krystallis,...
1. INTRODUCTION A virtual explosion in management instruments has been observed since the last decade of the 20th century. This requires managers to examine and find the instrument that can best reduce the complexity in decision making and, with...
1. INTRODUCTION Several authors (Nonaka & Takeuchi. 1995; Schilling. 2008) have recognized that innovation is the most important driver of competitiveness success of contemporary organizations. Innovations originate with the new ideas. The ability...
1. INTRODUCTION Employee creativity is the most important driver of organizational innovation, effectiveness, competitiveness success (Nonaka & Takeuchi. 1995; Schilling. 2008). A combination of employee's creative ideas and resource in organization,...
1. INTRODUCTION "Bankers need a new approach to business ethics in responding to challenges about whether to separate stock analysis from the other financial functions of financial services companies or whether to maintain relationships with socially...
1. INTRODUCTION Obesity has become a global epidemic both in children and in adults and it is still increasing in both industrialized and developing countries (Wang and Lobstein, 2006). For example, one quarter of children in the US are obese or...
1. INTRODUCTION Creativity is the ability to produce work that is both novel and appropriate, according to Sternberg and Lubart, 1996. Novel means original or unexpected, while appropriate means useful or meets task constraints. Identical inventions...
1. INTRODUCTION It is widely acceptable that each company, each firm acts like a live organism. In other words, a company follows identical steps to any other biological entity, in the sense that after its foundation it goes through the maturing...
1. INTRODUCTION Due to globalization, rising environmental uncertainty and complexity, and industrial heterogeneity, organizations are facing an unprecedented challenge in maintaining collaborative relationships. Organizations must survive and succeed...
1. INTRODUCTION According to professional negotiators (e.g., Russ Purdy and Gilles Bourgeois), the number one way to fail in negotiations or advocacy is via faulty, poor or a lack of preparations. Second and third most often leading to bargaining...
1. INTRODUCTION Advances in technology have resulted in short-lived competitive advantage based on product features or design. Product innovation and quality are no longer sufficient as a basis of competitive advantage (Butz and Goodstein, 1996)....
1. INTRODUCTION According to Zagrebski, 2004, examining conflicts it is important to remember that religious beliefs can be deep, because of "the kind of commitment that religious persons take to be partially constitutive of their selves. The clash...
1. INTRODUCTION The history of RFID dates back to World War II. During the war, many countries were using radar, which had been discovered in the 1930's. Radar was used to warn of approaching planes. The problem was with the identification of the...
1. INTRODUCTION Taking a closer look into the audit process, one can found that audits are run through various tests allowing the auditors to reach some results. These results help them in examining only some parts of business operations and transactions...
1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Drivers of Team Trends Globalization and technology are two major drivers of the trends toward the use of teams, especially virtual teams, in meeting the challenges of today's organizations. By combining technology and teams,...
1. INTRODUCTION Thailand is a fast growing country in South East Asia that has maintained as an independent country for over 800 years and the audit was introduced in 1879 by King Chulalongkorn (Henry and Attavitkamtorn, 1999). Since the financial...
1. INTRODUCTION This paper describes the complementarities and differences between systems thinking and complexity science approaches and suggests that it is time for the approaches to purposely seek coalescence. The effort that led to the paper...
1. INTRODUCTION Converting debt into shares leads to a growing need for financial support and also to an increase of future liabilities, forcing the entity to make use of its extra earnings in the following periods. If a company does not place this...
1. INTRODUCTION "Tight" may be right or it may be wrong. To tie up or consummate a transaction is often seen as the ultimate ideal in business, even if it requires doing something that the propriety of may have to be rationalized. Being tight with...