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"Since its very inception, social work has been considered an organizationally based profession, with the majority of its workforce employed within formal organizations. Whether in nonprofit, for-profit, or governmental agencies, the... more
The case below was originally drafted and developed by a group of scholars in their monumental book " Business Policy: Managing Strategic Processes ". In that book, Bower, Bartlett, Uyterhoeven, and Richard highlight many key cases worth... more
This Impact Report identifies and summarises the diverse impacts, resulting from the £500m of UK funding of Science and Technology in 2013, using numerous quantitative metrics and short case study extracts. It shows how the varied... more
Este libro habla sobre los momentos de cambio, sobre cómo prepararse para las bifurcaciones de la historia, sobre estos momentos de apertura, de riesgos, de oportunidades y amenazas que definen un nuevo paisaje de desarrollo. Cómo... more
This paper is aimed to outline a strategy for organising a new state agency whose main mandate is to deal with the problem of drug trafficking in the Balakash Republic, taking into account the particularity of the context and it should be... more
Phronetic organizational research is an approach to the study of management and organizations focusing on ethics and power. It is based on a contemporary interpretation of the Aristotelian concept phronesis, usually as ‘prudence’.... more
Corrupt exchanges are often brokered by a third party, but this phenomenon has not been satisfactorily explored by researchers of corruption. Literature on brokerage in general provides interesting models but they have not previously been... more
The report presents some of the most commonly used techniques for each of the six Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence (CPE) enabler categories. Examples are given of tools, measures and competencies for each of the techniques and... more
Purpose – Recent operations management research suggests that adopting and implementing the right practices are essential to attaining “world-class” performance. The purpose of this paper is to report the leading operations management... more
This research, conducted by the author when a Senior Researcher at Newcastle University, UK, was funded by a UK governance organisation to help them assess, integrate and improve their understanding of the governed population.... more
This article presents results from the first statistically significant study of cost escalation in transportation infrastructure projects. Based on a sample of 258 transportation infrastructure projects worth US$90 billion and... more
Tulisan ini dibuat untuk memberikan gambaran mengenai manajemen stratejik yang ada di perusahaan, khususnya perusahaan terbuka yang dapat dianalisa kinerjanya. Materi yang ada berupa saran atau ide yang dapat memberikan gambaran strategis... more
"This book offers annotated translations of documents touching on Dutch admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge and his voyage to Asia between 1605 and 1608. These translations are aimed at a contemporary English-speaking Asian readership... more
Desde hace unos años, el ritmo de crecimiento del número de usuarios de Internet en América Latina ha ido incrementándose. Esto permite entrever la posibilidad de desarrollar, entre otras cosas, las aplicaciones más generales del Comercio... more
Megaproject Planning and Management: Essential Readings contains the seminal articles from the growing body of research on megaproject planning and management along with an original introduction by the editor, Bent Flyvbjerg. The leading... more
Back cover text: Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly... more
The article first describes characteristics of major infrastructure projects. Second, it documents a much neglected topic in economics: that ex ante estimates of costs and benefits are often very different from actual ex post costs and... more
The purpose of the article was 1) to assess the relationship between the organizational culture (OC) type and business strategy (BS); 2) to prove that OC influences the survival strategy success/implementation; 3) to contribute to the... more
This paper is a study of Public Private Partnerships as a product of intelligent design and strategy elements. It constructs an integrative theoretical framework for infrastructure PPPs based on a comprehensive literature review. The... more
As megaprojects have become ubiquitous, their real benefits and costs have come under increased scrutiny. We interviewed Bent Flyvbjerg, who has extensively studied megaproject development. Flyvbjerg has found systematic problems in the... more
The Supplementary Green Book Guidance on Optimism Bias (HM Treasury 2003) with reference to the Review of Large Public Procurement in the UK (Mott MacDonald 2002) notes that there is a demonstrated, systematic, tendency for project... more
What does it mean for organizations to be strategic? This question of the relation between organization and strategy is central in the field of strategy theory and is a matter of high practical significance for organizations. Yet, this... more
"Over budget, over time, over and over again" appears to be an appropriate slogan for large, complex infrastructure projects. This article explains why cost, benefits, and time forecasts for such projects are systematically... more
Any organisation, whether it be that of a profit or a non-profit one needs to evaluate the environment in which it operates and there are several models such as Porter's five forces, swot analysis, PESTEL etc. which are being utilised by... more