A key enabler of environmental projects is the ability of the project champion to gain commitment to the project from other stakeholders in his or her organization. This paper develops a model of commitment-gaining success that is based on intra-organizational influence theory. The model also includes the project payback, customer pressure, government regulation, top management support and the ...

In many of the world's leading corporations, strategic thinking has outdistanced organizational capability. As business challenges have grown more complex over the past 20 years, most companies have avoided the trap of one-dimensional strategic responses-stick to your knitting, stick to the big markets. But many of them have fallen into a second, structural trap and adopted elaborate organizati...

Abstract By raising performance, Total Quality Management (TQM) transforms any industry that is in a state of substantial structural change and facing increased competition. However, Iraq as one the main global oil suppliers still lagging on TQM journey due to decreasing quality levels, particularly management systems. Thus, this study aims facilitate Iraqi Oil Companies by reviewing practices ...

We provide the ̄rst study of mutual fund management change that attempts to classify the reason for change. Our analysis of 307 manager changes separates promotions from demotions. In contrast to previous research that simply looks at changes, we ̄nd a richer set of variables that explain the probability of fund manager replacement. Indeed, our results suggest that a pooled regression that does ...

Purpose: The objective of this study was to investigate the influence corporate social responsibility on sustainability with moderating role top management. Theoretical Framework: Even though studies have been done within an emerging market context, there has calls explore CSR constraints in other geographical areas. This explores how lack management commitment moderates relationship between an...

The CLEO III experiment will collect on the order of 200 TB of data over the lifetime of the experiment. The challenges facing CLEO III are how to store such a large dataset. We will describe our experiences with Objectivity/DB on top of a Hierarchical Storage Manager.

Managers have formal and official supervisory authority within an organizational hierarchy. As a result, a perennial concern of managers is employee mobility, i.e., the turnover of workers, and the implication of worker mobility for the staffing of critical functions in the organization. Managers in organizations can also be leaders. According to Burns, in his seminal volume Leadership (1978, 1...