and personal assessment of the risks and rewards of that outcome. (East, Wright & Vanhuele 2013) SUM BELIEFS GLOBAL VARIABLES Figure 1.1 (East, Wright & Vanhuele 2013) The theory of planned behaviour is made up of six concepts that together represent a person’s actual control over the behaviour. Figure 1.1 illustrates the process that is taken throughout the theory of planned behaviour. Sum beliefs refer to the personal beliefs the individual has towards their behavioural
CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW OF FINANCIAL REPORTING, FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS, AND VALUATION Solutions to Questions, Exercises, and Problems, and Teaching Notes to Cases 1. Value Chain Analysis Applied to the Timber and Timber Products Industry. Exhibit 1.A below contains a depiction of the value chain. The links in the value chain are as follows: 1. Timber Tracts: Plant and maintain timber tracts (Weyerhaeuser) 2. Logging: Harvests timber (Weyerhaeuser) a. Sawmills:
in Individuals: Cognition and Ethics 31 The Entrepreneurial Mind-Set in Organizations: Corporate Entrepreneurship 67 Social Entrepreneurship and the Global Environment for Entrepreneurship 98 Entrepreneural case analysis Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Silicon Valley: The Case of Google, Inc. 127 Entrepreneurship: Evolutionary Development—Revolutionary Impact Chapter 1 “Entrepreneurial Thought Most of what you hear about entrepreneurship is all wrong. It’s not magic; it’s not mysterious;
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obesity, they are not a cause of obesity. In other words, they are risk factors. Therefore, responsibility for rising levels of obesity in society should be shared with individuals, parents (in the case of children), food and beverage producers (implement CSR initiatives), governments, and society as a whole. 1.1 Background: Into the issues to be resolved 1.1.1 Scale of the problem The World Health Organization (WHO) believes obesity has reached epidemic proportions. Globally, more than one billion
Confirming Pages Strategic Management CONCEPTS & CASES FRANK T. ROTHAERMEL Georgia Institute of Technology rot12737_fm_i-xlvi.indd iii 17/11/11 7:37 PM Confirming Pages STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: CONCEPTS AND CASES Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020. Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication
Place, 2010, p. 1): • “90% of people with digital video recorders skip TV ads. • “To be seen, brands now have to get inside the content. • “Consumer consumption of entertainment increases when economic times get tough. • “ITV reported an increase of 1.1% in TV viewing in the first quarter of 2009. • “Cinema admissions for 2009 to April 30 stand at 55.2 million, a 14.2% increase on the same periods in 2008. • “Research shows product placement in content boosts brand awareness, raises brand affinity
vi BRIEF CONTENTS 4 The Organization System 16 Organizational Culture 511 17 Human Resource Policies and Practices 543 18 Organizational Change and Stress Management 577 Appendix A Research in Organizational Behavior Comprehensive Cases Indexes Glindex 637 663 616 623 Contents Preface xxii 1 1 Introduction What Is Organizational Behavior? 3 The Importance of Interpersonal Skills 4 What Managers Do 5 Management Functions 6 • Management Roles 6 • Management
are engaged in a common goal or purpose. This can be a small Center for 1 01-Rowe-45233.qxd 3/26/2007 12:53 PM Page 2 2 • CASES IN LEADERSHIP Management Development in a business school with a staff of four, a naval ship with a ship’s company of 300 (a destroyer) or 6,000 (an aircraft carrier), or a multinational enterprise such as Starbucks with more than 10,500 stores worldwide and in excess of 100,000 partners (employees). This definition of leadership precludes the inclusion
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