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This contributed volume focuses on the management and governance of international business networks (IBN). Specifically, the chapters refer to theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and case study papers from all areas in economics and management of IBN. These include cooperatives, franchising, retail chains, strategic alliances, public-private partnerships and new network forms in the digital economy. This book is ideal for researchers and strategists who are keen to improve their understanding of the latest developments in the field.
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This book offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to relationship marketing in franchising and retailing, especially in areas such as business and marketing management as well as strategic marketing. The topics this book covers include (but is not limited to): (1) relationships in the context of e-commerce within the franchising sector; (2) franchisees with multiple stakeholder roles: perceptions and conflict in franchise networks; (3) why franchisors recruit franchisees from the ranks of their employees; (4) franchisee advisory councils and justice; and (5) determinants of overall franchisee satisfaction. This book is ideal for students, practitioners and professionals interested in Relationship Marketing, Customer Services, and Marketing Communications. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Strategic Marketing.
This book highlights cutting-edge research in the economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field, offering new theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives on the management, governance, ownership and control of cooperatives, franchising networks and strategic alliances. Further, it presents a strategic group perspective on franchisers and discusses both social entrepreneurship issues in franchising and franchising strategies for Indigenous entrepreneurship in Australia. Lastly, it offers a dynamic capabilities approach to alliance portfolio management and analyses the antecedents of the transitions taking place in the lifecycles of alliances.
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2 (Second Class), University of Sussex (SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research), course: International Management, language: English, abstract: The research plans to show the importance of the leadership role of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Managing Innovation. This has also attracted the focus of researchers analysing leadership styles and its relation to innovation. Innovation is a transition from traditional methods to modern ways of providing products, services, processes, business models and much more. However, factors that have continuously kept innova...
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Technology, grade: Second class - Merit, University of Sussex (SPRU – SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY RESEARCH), course: International Management, language: English, abstract: The research will firstly describe some of the types of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and its general impact on management, secondly elaborate the effect of ICT in International Companies’ (IC) strategies, thirdly elaborate the effect of ICT in ICs’ organizational structures, and on the way it will elaborate how can all this types of ICT as alternative resource-use systems impact the long-term wealth, well-being and productivity of ICs, and finally how ICT can help ICs operate in a more environmentally accepted way.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: A, , course: Advanced Economics, language: English, abstract: This thesis will briefly introduce the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in helping its members and its role today. Secondly, it will highlight the role of IMF in Kosova, its first missions in Kosova and its recommendations aid and economic activities. Finally, it will show commitments of the Kosova’s Government expressed in the LOI and IMF report and recommendations for Kosova in May 2006 combined with extracted author's conclusion and recommendations.