...) optimization of operational efficiency, (7) development of data and analysis for financial management, (8) strategic management, and (9) agribusiness education. agribusiness cooperative credit market business organization market structure supply chain operations strategy education L10 M10 M20 Q13...

... by the National Bureau of Economic Research and Vanderbilt University, the conference was entitled, “Enterprising America: Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective.” The principal themes of the book include changes in business organization and governance, bank behavior and credit markets...

... largely marginalized. Interest in big business has not waned with the advent of the post-Chandler era and is unlikely to do so, given its crucial role in economic development; but this role has been put in proper perspective and alternative forms of business organization reappraised as part of modern...

...The purpose of this article on corporate social responsibility (CSR) concepts and practices, referred to as just ‘social responsibility’ (SR) in the period before the rise and dominance of the corporate form of business organization, is to provide an overview of how the concept and practice of SR...

... of business groups that is customarily employed varies across nations and regions. The overall negative undertone that is attached to business groups, however, need not hinder the systematic examination of this business organization. Nor do the variations in national conventions as well as in academic...

... solutions to such problems involves more than just restructuring the business organization without understanding its complexities. This chapter looks into the design decisions that managers have to face, concentrating particularly on design's role in the general organizational model. It also identifies...

...This article outlines different approaches to the analysis of contemporary capitalism and considers what role they allocate to the business organization. Three distinct positions are distinguished. First, there are those who cling to the idea of distinctive national business systems and retain...

... it was in their power to do so and not because of any consensus-based justifications. References American Bar Association ( 1987 ), ‘ Uniform Partnership Act Revision Subcommittee of the Committee on Partnerships and Unincorporated Business Organizations : Section of Business Paw, American Bar Association, Should...

...This chapter discusses the business organization strategies of religious publishers. Although the American Bible Society, American Tract Society, and American Sunday School Union had developed the technological capacity for universal mass media by 1830, they lacked the organizational ability...

... and interdisciplinary approach to research—an approach that brings together psychologists who study individuals, as well as researchers who study groups and organizations using a sociocultural approach, including sociologists, anthropologists, economists, historians, and business organization scholars. Barzun Jacques...

... environment and how cooperative strategies play a positive role in such situations through further examining the contribution of cooperation as a mode of business organization. Bleeke J Ernst D Hamel G Prahalad C K Ebers M Grandori A Lyles M A Reger R K Gell Mann M Beinhocker E D Bettis R A Hitt M...

... and the entrepreneur. Michael Porter, following Alfred Chandler, focuses attention on business organization and competitive strategy and introduces the concept of cluster to explain competitiveness. The capabilities and innovation perspective that informs The New Competitive Advantage develops...

... Friends of the Earth Greenpeace Latour B operations changes organizations failure risk aversion business organization public services overseas competitors After Prometheus had defied Zeus and given fire to humanity, Zeus sent Pandora with a jar or box to trick Epimetheus, the brother...

..., far more than any other nation. According to the chapter, the increased availability of the corporate form of business organization stimulated entrepreneurship by broadening the menu of organizational-form choices available to entrepreneurs. Finally, the appearance of so many corporations so early...

..., which form the basis of human survival and growth. A business organization means a combination of people who join together to work for a common objective. People, therefore, occupy the centre stage of an organization and thus, management of people or personnel management is not only an integral part...

.... Aspects addressed include the globalization of contracting practice and law, the American-style contract (in relation to franchising law and mineral (non-oil) development contracts), and developments in business organization and law institutions. civil law common law contract law globalization...

... business organization partnership peculium Economic activity in modern societies is dominated by organizations. In nearly all commercial transactions, at least one party is a firm organized as a distinct legal entity such as a corporation, trust, or limited liability company. The Roman economy...

... over time. This book has brought together leading scholars to provide a comprehensive, critical, and interdisciplinary examination of business history, organized into four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. It shows...

...Throughout the evolution of the modern world economy, new models of productive efficiency and business organization have emerged — in Britain in the 19th century, in the US in the early (and perhaps late) 20th century, and in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. At each point, foreign observers have...