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Managing Business Projects: The Essentials differs from many other project management textbooks. Foremost, it is about business projects as opposed to construction or engineering projects. Although many techniques, like schedule management, apply to both, they are usually applied differently. As its title conveys, the book explains the essential techniques and perspectives needed for business projects to be successful. The focus is on small- and medium-sized projects, up to $20 million, but often below $1 million. Some literature favors large and mega-projects, but for every mega-project, there are many thousands of smaller projects that are vital to the organization and could involve consid...
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
An essential business guide on how to develop an organization's innovation culture and internal entrepreneurs (intrapreneurs) The Intrapreneur’s Journey: Empowering Employees to Drive Growth is an essential guide on effectively creating and implementing a sustainable culture of innovation and entrepreneurship within organizations. The book is based on the insight that established organizations see continuous delivery of innovative products, services and processes when they enable teams of entrepreneurial employees to think and behave like start-ups. Three qualities make this book unique. First, it explores the theory and practice of intrapreneurship and innovation with a particular, but no...
'Sustainability' offers a comprehensive treatment of the relationship between business and sustainability.
The book explores how three forms of entrepreneurial capital (Economic capital, Human capital and Social Capital) can be adopted by SA SOEs as a growth strategy to become more innovative to compete effectively in dynamic and rapidly changing markets. SOEs play a critical role in the economic pursuit of advancing economic growth and developmental objectives of the country. The book give theoretical and empirical evidence on the on the role each form of capital play in the pursuit for growing an established business. The book is ideal for any postgraduate students in commerce, policy makers and business person.
Advanced Entrepreneurship represents the only South African book on small business management or entrepreneurship at this level available to students. The text covers standard entrepreneurial theory from a southern African perspective. In addition it includes a discussion of contemporaryissues facing entrepreneurs, such as strategic management and technology as tools of the businessperson. The text provides advice on the legal framework in which an entrepreneur must function, and sources of finance for the venture. It also examines issues around e-commerce and globalization. Thereis a discussion of the specific dilemmas - such as the focus on empowerment - facing the South African entrepreneur. The book includes a number of fully researched case examples featuring successful South African businesspeople. Examples from neighbouring states broaden the relevance of thediscussion.
Following recent growth of ethical consumerism, customers and other stakeholders increasingly pressure organizations to be socially responsible and minimize their negative impact on the environment. Accordingly, a plethora of firms have integrated corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the center of their business strategies and actions. Whilst this has resulted in many firms meeting their broader responsibilities toward society and the environment, some firms have used CSR in a manipulative and insincere way. As stakeholders become aware of such misuse of CSR, largely thanks to the rapid evolution of information technologies, they start to penalize firms by spreading negative word of mout...