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The Effect of Firm-level Factors on the Practice of Cash Management in Small-scale Housing Companies
No full textThis paper examines the impact of firm-level factors on cash management among small-scale housing companies. Firstly, the study explores the relationship between housing developers and their suppliers and bankers in managing cash. Then, the effect of technology on the cash management is examined. The findings of this study provide mixed evidence of the effects of external factors on the practice of cash management. It is revealed that housing developers in Malaysia generally attempt to minimize external borrowings from banks in order to minimize financing costs. Companies that have strong relationship with their suppliers are associated with low effectiveness in cash management, while those that use a computerized system are found to be more effective than those using the manual system. The study suggests that a study which focuses on the issues and nature of bankers-suppliers relationships be undertaken to further understand the characteristics and uniqueness of this critical industry
Strategic Management in Higher Educational Institutions: Comparative Analysis of University Core Values
No full textEducational institutions have an increasingly vital role in regional and national economies. Higher education (HE) has been facing new challenges and demands due to political, economic, and technological changes in the course of the last few decades. The purpose of this study was to find out what values Czech and British HE institutions declare as their core values, and based on an analysis of these values identifies what are the differences in the content of organizational culture and the degree of stakeholder orientation of HE institution in the surveyed countries. A qualitative-research procedure was applied to meet the research objectives. The collected values were then analyzed and categorized according to their content similarity. Subsequently, the identified categories of university core values in both the countries were compared. The results showed that the Czech Republic and the UK are different substantially in the extent to which they formulated their values, or the extent that they use them as a tool for strategic management or as a marketing tool, respectively
Analysis of Organizational Change Management Climate during Knowledge Management Processes Implementation
No full textTo achieve the advantage of organizational knowledge in terms of competitiveness requires an accurate management of that knowledge, so-called knowledge management (KM), which is currently an important position in organizational leadership and management, and researchers have given particular attention to it. KM is the process of managing knowledge and expertise in the organization in a way that facilitates identification, capture, codification, storage and sharing the knowledge which accelerates knowledge creation towards the strategies of the organization. This research was designed in order to analyze change management during knowledge management establishment. Based on literature review, the authors' recent researches on KM and applying some statistical methods, the research structure of this study has been developed on five main stages according to methodology that have been described in authors recent research. The study used factor analysis to extract three critical factors. The results showed significant effects on change program for KM adoption. The results of factor analysis and multiple regression analysis confirmed the proofs for the three hypotheses
In-depth Understanding of the Way Top-managers Identify and Manage Their Organizations
No full textThe purpose of this study is to gain an in-depth contextualized understanding of how top-managers enact the long-term survival of their organizations. This research uses a case study approach to gain an in-depth contextualized understanding of how top managers make sense of who they are and their environment. Data was collected through semi structured interviews and was coded and analyzed through a grounded approach. The questioning will focus on the effects of the discursive resources. The research shows that identity construction and plausibility are more central than other properties of the sensemaking process in the sense they are primary influences on responses to the challenges we face. This research also supports the idea that when managers' identities are based upon routines and scripts, they may not be suitable for the present challenges