Business management

In this changing world, it is not uncommon for new markets to open (and close) rapidly, so companies need to have a strategy to move people and resources rapidly from areas of low to areas of a higher ......

What is meant by the term capital? - though a seemingly basic question, the notion of capital varies, depending on the ..... being considered.

In 'The Management of Transboundary Fishery Resources and Property Rights', Gordon R. Munro tackles one of the ..... questions in the field of rights-based fishing.

Munro reminds us that it is now established by the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (CLS) that coastal states have property rights to the fishery resources contained within their Exclusive Economic Zones extending 200 ..... miles offshore.

Two issues concern us here: one is the issue of 'shared stocks', which are fish stocks shared by two or more coastal states whose EEZs are ......

The Scientific Management Theory (1890-1940): At the ..... of the century, the most notable organizations were large and industrialized, and often they included ongoing, routine tasks that manufactured a variety of products.

The Bureaucratic Management Theory (1930-1950): Max Weber ..... the scientific management theory, focussing on dividing organizations into hierarchies to establish strong lines of authority and control; he suggested organizations develop comprehensive and detailed standard operating procedures for all routinized tasks.

Various new theories were ....., many based on the behavioral sciences (some had names like theory 'X', 'Y' and 'Z').

According to Ray Moore of HSBC, the efficient management of information across the financial supply chain (FSC) is a critical ..... in getting goods to market early and at the lowest cost.

The initial ..... about vastly reduced unit costs has, however, been tempered in recent years, as corporates take a more sophisticated approach to the calculation of total fulfilment cost, which includes all logistics, working capital and finance related costs involved within its supply chain.