Kambeiz Talebi, the author of the Article discusses the urgent needfor topmanagers to change their style in small entrepreneurial firms during a business life cycle. Although most leadership theories assume that it is an easy task, but the case studies and practical experience suggest the opposite - managers find it hard to move from an innovative style when the company is young to taskoriente...

This article selects Country Garden Company as a case study, based on the life cycle theory of family businesses, to study reasons, plans, and economic consequences its de-familialization, providing basis for how businesses in current Chinese market can de-familialize provide empirical references de-familialization.

“Design for X” is commonly regarded as a systematic and proactive designing of products to optimize total benefits over the whole product life span (fabrication, assembly, test, procurement, shipment, delivery, operation, service, disposal), and meet target quality, cost, performance and time-to-market. DFX involves different methodologies for product design and optimization (like Design for: M...

Purpose – Asset management is often one of the last options to maximise cost savings in a competitive global economy due to its intrinsic complexity, especially in many developing countries. Asset management in the process industry must consider the commissioning, operational and end-of-life phases of physical assets when commencing a design and implementation project. However, current asset ma...