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Post-Acquisition Management in China

  • 1st Edition
  • October 16, 2009
  • Yi He
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 2 2 3 - 0
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are a vital strategy for companies attempting to expand and diversify in China. It has been widely accepted that post-acquisition management is critical for acquisition success. Post-Acquisition Management in China provides a systematic examination of post-acquisition management and its impact on performance after takeover in the acquired Chinese companies. It looks at the various aspects of post-acquisition management including the nature and processes of post-acquisition changes, integration and control, and the association between the performance and post-acquisition management.

Managerial Judgement and Strategic Investment Decisions

  • 1st Edition
  • August 13, 2009
  • Elaine Harris + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 8 5 6 1 7 - 8 9 7 - 6
This book presents the findings from a cross-sectional survey funded by CIMA. The project aimed to survey senior management accountants working across a range of organisations and industries with a unique focus on the behavioural side of decision making, the use of managerial judgement. Previous capital budgeting surveys have tended to focus on the quantitative evaluation tools and techniques used for project appraisal. This study was broader in that it asked about every stage of the strategic investment decision (SID) process, from initiation to post implementation review, and how different managers were involved at different stages of the process. The focus is on how decision judgements are reached.

Materials and Innovative Product Development

  • 1st Edition
  • June 29, 2009
  • Gernot H. Gessinger
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 8 5 6 1 7 - 5 5 9 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 8 7 8 2 0 - 1
Innovation in product design starts with materials. Developing successful commercial products demands a sound understanding of the materials that go into those products—their uses, their costs, their lifetime performance. However, the valuable knowledge of materials engineers is often not fully leveraged in the creative phase of the product design cycle. Gessinger seeks to bridge this gap that exists in many companies.Written from the bottom-up perspective of the engineer or scientist on a product design team, Materials and Innovative Product Design introduces business, economics and strategic product development to the materials specialist and demystifies materials selection for other members of the design team and manufacturing management. Using case studies from innovative organizations, such as ABB, and successful start-ups, such as NDC, Day4Energy, and Metoxit, Gessinger illustrates how the integration of different engineering and business disciplines can power innovation in the design process. By addressing the real world needs of innovators, this book allows the reader to unlock the potential of the new material types that have been changing the face of product design and deploy an integrated business approach to materials selection and the design process.

Management Accounting in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

  • 1st Edition
  • May 16, 2009
  • Severin Grabski + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 6 4 1 0 - 2
Current evidence points to management accountants using traditional software (such as spreadsheets) for budgeting, ABC, balanced scorecards and other performance management techniques independent of, rather than integrated with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems. While there has been some limited research on the effects of ERP systems on management accountants, this report provides a comprehensive analysis of the consequences of implementation of ERP systems for management accountants.

The Transformation of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in Vietnam

  • 1st Edition
  • May 15, 2009
  • Anne Vo
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 2 5 4 - 4
This essential reference reviews recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management and union relations in a sample of multi national companies (MNCs) and local firms in Vietnam. It addresses the transfer of human resources management (HRM) systems across borders and the transformation of HRM practices in Vietnam in the context of a developing and transitional economy. The book extensively examines the attraction of younger generations to HRM systems in developing countries, the ‘brain drain’ phenomenon and the local firms potentially losing commercial competitiveness in their own country. The book also reviews the catalyst role of MCNs in the management of human resources.

Don't Blame the Tools

  • 1st Edition
  • May 8, 2009
  • Elizabeth Daniel + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 6 3 7 1 - 6
Those managing organisations are often criticised for being ‘faddish’ in their use of new management ideas or innovations, too easily falling into the trap of adopting the latest new idea or concept because it is ‘flavour of the month’. This research-based report presents an in-depth account and analysis of the adoption and implementation of two popular large-scale managerial innovations in four different organisations. It provides case studies of actual adoption and implementation of the balanced scorecard and programme/project management offices. The study explores the reasons for the adoption of the innovations and how these reasons shape implementation success. The report also provides examples of good practice that practising managers use to improve the implementation of new management practices in their own organisations.

Implementation of Changes in Chinese Organizations

  • 1st Edition
  • March 30, 2009
  • Ruth Alas
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 2 3 5 - 3
There are no commonly accepted theories of change that have been developed for China or countries in transition. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap and provide a model which takes into account the specifics of organizational changes in Chinese organizations. It looks at various aspects of change implementation in Chinese organizations, including the types, the process, the readiness to change, and ethical issues.

Guerilla Capitalism

  • 1st Edition
  • March 9, 2009
  • Lan Nguyen
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 5 5 0 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 2 5 5 - 1
Aimed at globalising companies, institutional investors, business researchers, students and practitioners. Guerilla Capitalism analyses the nature of the business system and behaviour of state owned enterprises in Vietnam. Written by an expert author, the book is based on first hand case studies containing full and frank interviews with local managers on the country’s business culture. It thus provides those seeking to do business in Vietnam with an unparalleled insight into how and why its businesses in general, and state owned enterprises in particular, are structured and managed, a topic about which little has been previously written. The book also presents researchers and students with a comprehensive, societal approach to the study of organisational behaviour, and offers a distinctive interpretation of the common problems of state owned enterprises in transitional economies that goes beyond the traditional economic explanation.

Business Modeling

  • 1st Edition
  • December 8, 2008
  • David M. Bridgeland + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 2 0 9 5 - 5
As business modeling becomes mainstream, every year more and more companies and government agencies are creating models of their businesses. But creating good business models is not a simple endeavor. Business modeling requires new skills. Written by two business modeling experts, this book shows you how to make your business modeling efforts successful. It provides in-depth coverage of each of the four distinct business modeling disciplines, helping you master them all and understand how to effectively combine them. It also details best practices for working with subject matter experts. And it shows how to develop models, and then analyze, simulate, and deploy them. This is essential, authoritative information that will put you miles ahead of everyone who continues to approach business modeling haphazardly.

The Private Sector and China's Market Development

  • 1st Edition
  • September 30, 2008
  • Zhikai Wang
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 2 3 2 - 2
Based on case studies, this comprehensive review aims to explore the development of the private sector and how it stimulates industrial growth at regional level in China. The book traces the privatization mechanism and how it facilitates the process of industrialization and urbanization in rural China. The Private Sector and China’s Market Development looks at the evolution of market transition and the rapid growth of the private sector from aspects of both bottom up and top down institutional innovation. It also provides a commentary of future development and innovation in the private sector.

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