Bureaucracy and Trusteeship in Large Corporations

Pitfalls of Electronic Commerce in Large Corporations

To enable businesses to maximise value and achieve benefits from electronic commerce, it is imperative to identify, analyse and overcome challenges that lie ahead those engaging in conducting the business electronically. The research presented in this paper reports on the pitfalls – challenges of electronic commerce encountered among the top 500 Australian publicly listed companies. The results...

Groupware Effectiveness in Large Latin American Corporations

Large corporations are looking at Third World countries, particularly in Latin America, to expand their supply and production channels with foreign offices and personnel. Access and experience with technology of those enterprises will determine, in part, the speed at which an organization can expect to fully integrate these new channels and manage remote projects in this area of the world. This...

Bureaucracy the Bureaucracy Pattern

The Bureaucracy pattern is a recurring design theme used to implement hierarchical object or component structures which allow interaction with every level of the hierarchy and maintain their inner consistency themselves. It is a composite pattern that is based on the Composite, Mediator, Chain of Responsibility and Observer pattern. Composite patterns require new presentation and modeling techn...

13.2 Patterns of Growth of Large Corporations

Opportunity Recongition for Highly Profitable Projects in Large Corporations

Opportunity Recognition (OR) was studied in highly profitable platform and radical or discontinuous products developed in large billion dollar companies. Platform projects, which provides a whole new offering to the company and did not require high risk technologies, required a trigger event to get started, had a long gestation period and required senior management sponsorship. In contrast OR i...