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Guest Editor
General Management
Review.
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Born
in the wrong place
Today,as companies compete on their ability to discover,
mobilize and leverage the knowledge dispersed around the world,
it seldom matters where it originated. The GMR Research
Team focuses on the emergance is on distinctiveness and
not homogeneity.
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Organizational
Improvisation
Improvisation helps organizations be flexible
and adaptive in turbulent enviroments without the necessity
of beign purely organic or structure-less. it allows the simultaneous
pursuit of both efficiency and effectiveness.But an organization
with improvisation capabilities cannot be created instantaneously-such
capabilities have to be nurtured and growth, contend Miguel
Pina e Cunha, Joao Vieira da Cunha and Ken N Kamonche.
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The
Chase for migrating value
Adrian J Slywotzky belives that value always
migrates from outmoded business designs to new ones that are
better able to satisfy customers' most important priorities.
The migration of value can affect a specific division of a
company, a whole company,or even a whole industry as customers
make de facto choices about the business design that best
meet their needs, say the author
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Innovation
leads to endurance
The pattern of sucess fllowed by failure and innovation
followed by inertia is common across firm and industries over
time. It is a global illness and can strike managers at all
level of organization. Yet, success need not be paralyzing,
suggest Michael L Tushman and charles A O'Reilly III.Hight
the importance of vision, strategy and objectives for managing
innovation, the authors offers practical suggestion
on how to carry out organization change to implement innovation
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No
longer a lonely battle
Technology, markets and need for continual innovation
has altered the competitive dynamics of the market and sustainable
competitive advantages shifting from individual to groups
and world over, businesses are going the alliance way, reveals
Srinivas Ainavolu.Realizing the benefits such as reduced
developmental times, cutting costs and sharing knowledge,
more and companies are now competing in groups,
the author believes
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The
Bio Economy
Dr Stan Davis is convinced that we
are at the threshold of what can be called the Bio Economy.
Overlap of info-technology and biotechnology will digitize
many biological processes, as industries will be infused by
the bio-economy era.It will begin in area like pharmaceuticals
and agriculture and ultimately, spread throughout every economic
sector, just as computers did before he predicts.
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BPO
in India
The rapid strides in technology, especially in IT,over
the past two decades have seen the idea of outsourcing processes
and services come into the limelight .This paper on BPO's
prominence in India by Sudhir Voleti and K Ramachandran
examines the use of a functional Voleti and K Ramachandran
examines the use of a functional categorization of the internal
of organization of ITeS and BPO firms classifed into Business
Development and operations function
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Divide
and Rule
this case study compiled by Reeta Gupta studies
the de-merger of dabur, which found the sheer diversity of
its product portfolio as a stumbling block to managing growth
effectively.The case identifies the triggers of the division
and then discusses the actual process of the de-merging exercise.
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