Case Studies Of Key Factors In The Launch Of Viable Multi-Site Churches

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kings H. LEE
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Key Factors

Cultural and organizational integration in cross-border M&A deals

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1109-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Panibratov
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Organizational Integration

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify key factors that influence the integration process in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals of emerging multinational enterprises (EMNEs). The research questions are: how national and organizational culture coupled with other organizational characteristics influence M&A deals of EMNEs? Which factors influence the process of cultural and organizational integration in cross-border M&A deals, initiated by EMNEs? What is the effect and consequences that different integration factors have on cross-border M&A deals by EMNEs? Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a multiple case study research, considering cross-border deals of Chinese and Russian firms separately. Each block consists of two cases, describing M&A integration of companies operating in two sectors: high technology and finance. The authors obtained the data for case studies from companies’ official websites, annual reports, press releases, other official documents where companies were mentioned, business-media sources (newspapers and magazines), published interviews, documented speeches, letters, laws, as well as through blogs and social networks. The authors have also used the published information from articles, books, databases, and previously conducted case studies. Findings The authors have identified the factors influencing deals’ results of Chinese and Russian MNEs, with explanation based on case studies’ analysis. The full list of factors is presented in Table IV in the manuscript. The authors have also identified the set of elements that were derived from the case studies’ analysis only, without having any strong support in the literature, such as changes at a senior management level, educational and business exchanges, CSR policy, and the government involvement. Originality/value The authors have identified the key factors that influence integration of emerging market firms in cross-border M&A deal. The list of factors was adjusted and actualized in accordance with the results of four cases of cross-border M&A deals of Chinese or Russian companies. As a result, the authors founded the combination of characteristics of cultural and organizational integration process of firms from China and Russia.

Modelos de negocio para el periodismo: una propuesta metodológica para realizar estudios de caso

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-171
Author(s):  
Cristian Ramón Marín Sanchiz ◽  
◽  
Miguel Carvajal Prieto ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Media Economics ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Sustainable Business Models ◽  
Revenue Streams

The journalism industry faces difficulties in creating sustainable business models for the digital age. Communications research has looked at this challenge through case studies and panoramic perspectives, but there’s a lack of holistic views and a need for focus on value creation. In this situation, this paper presents a systematic literature review that confirms there’s a clear lack of standardization between the case studies, whose main focus have been revenue streams at the expense of deeper analysis of other key factors for the economic success of a company, like the value proposition. With the aim to contribute to the solution of this problem, the paper also proposes a methodological tool that allows future researchers to analyze the business model of a journalism company in a standard way with a view to facilitate better comparisons between companies and to understand success patterns of sustainable business models in order to promote innovation and knowledge exchange. Keywords: Business Models for Journalism; Revenue Streams for Journalism; Media Companies; Digital Journalism; Media Business Models Analysis; Media Economics.

scholarly journals Collaborative Governance and Unemployment in New Zealand: Two Case Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greta Gordon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Informal Accountability

<p><b>Long-term unemployment is a significant problem for Governments and communities. It demands innovative and agile policy responses, including those that involve community partners. However, research has shown that for the New Zealand Government to achieve collaboration, deep change in institutional arrangements is required. This thesis investigates collaborative governance as an alternative paradigm, drawing on the Community Employment Group and Mayors Taskforce for Jobs initiatives as case studies. It explores the leadership styles and behaviours, participatory processes and accountability mechanisms that enabled ongoing and iterative community solving to address long-term unemployment. </b></p><p>Analysis of the case studies found that: the leaders wrote their own rulebooks, and as such, accountability and participatory mechanisms were inextricably intertwined with the personality, skills, competencies and preferences of the leader; the transparency of accountability arrangements were critical to the survival of the initiatives, and the informal mechanisms were at least as important as formal mechanisms; and that participation can be a much looser arrangement than that suggested in the collaborative governance literature. These cases showed that there is little room for complacency in collaborative governance. Tenacious and visionary leadership, formal and informal accountability mechanisms that give legitimacy to the initiative and frequent, genuine and open communication by all parties combine as key factors to sustain ongoing and iterative problem solving to address long-term unemployment. </p>

scholarly journals Collaborative Governance and Unemployment in New Zealand: Two Case Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greta Gordon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Informal Accountability

<b>Long-term unemployment is a significant problem for Governments and communities. It demands innovative and agile policy responses, including those that involve community partners. However, research has shown that for the New Zealand Government to achieve collaboration, deep change in institutional arrangements is required. This thesis investigates collaborative governance as an alternative paradigm, drawing on the Community Employment Group and Mayors Taskforce for Jobs initiatives as case studies. It explores the leadership styles and behaviours, participatory processes and accountability mechanisms that enabled ongoing and iterative problem solving with communities, to address long-term unemployment.</b><br>Analysis of the case studies found that: the leaders wrote their own rulebooks, and as such, accountability and participatory mechanisms were inextricably intertwined with the personality, skills, competencies and preferences of the leader; the transparency of accountability arrangements were critical to the survival of the initiatives, and the informal mechanisms were at least as important as formal mechanisms; and that participation can be a much looser arrangement than that suggested in the collaborative governance literature. These cases showed that there is little room for complacency in collaborative governance. Tenacious and visionary leadership, formal and informal accountability mechanisms that give legitimacy to the initiative and frequent, genuine and open communication by all parties combine as key factors to sustain ongoing and iterative problem solving to address long-term unemployment.

Taking the outsider route to learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Graham Cole
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Organizational Success ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Content Type

Findings When it comes to identifying key factors to organizational success, leadership is invariably uppermost in many minds. It is thus hardly surprising that firms afford leadership development as the top priority. Expert in the field Morgan McCall perfectly articulated its importance when commenting on the imprudence of leaving leadership development to chance. Leadership development comes in an array of shapes and sizes. Mentoring, action learning, case studies, job assignments and experiential learning are just some of the methodologies commonly utilized. Transfer of knowledge, team building, raising self-awareness and increasing the ability to interact with others are core objectives typically pursued.

scholarly journals Key factors influencing family businesses: a qualitative study of selected world wineries

2021 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 02003
Author(s):  
Vojtěch Koráb
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Family System ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World

This research study is based on the elaboration of nineteen case studies of family wineries from all over the world and one case study from the Czech Republic. All family wineries were visited by the author and semi-structured interviews were conducted with selected representatives of family wineries. The aim of the research was to look at the family winery through the lens of two systems: the family system and the business system, in order to find out the involvement of family members in a winery and the most important factors affecting a winery. Websites of family wineries were examined through contextual analysis. Based on the analysis of all case studies, four key groups of family wineries in the world were compiled. The research study identifies key family factors, i.e. familiness and the generation of the family which owns a winery. On the business side, the study identifies two key factors important for the sustainability of a family winery, namely corporate innovation and the degree of internationalization. The results of the analysis of world family wineries were compared with one winery selected from the Czech Republic.

scholarly journals Collaborative Governance and Unemployment in New Zealand: Two Case Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greta Gordon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Informal Accountability

<p><b>Long-term unemployment is a significant problem for Governments and communities. It demands innovative and agile policy responses, including those that involve community partners. However, research has shown that for the New Zealand Government to achieve collaboration, deep change in institutional arrangements is required. This thesis investigates collaborative governance as an alternative paradigm, drawing on the Community Employment Group and Mayors Taskforce for Jobs initiatives as case studies. It explores the leadership styles and behaviours, participatory processes and accountability mechanisms that enabled ongoing and iterative community solving to address long-term unemployment. </b></p><p>Analysis of the case studies found that: the leaders wrote their own rulebooks, and as such, accountability and participatory mechanisms were inextricably intertwined with the personality, skills, competencies and preferences of the leader; the transparency of accountability arrangements were critical to the survival of the initiatives, and the informal mechanisms were at least as important as formal mechanisms; and that participation can be a much looser arrangement than that suggested in the collaborative governance literature. These cases showed that there is little room for complacency in collaborative governance. Tenacious and visionary leadership, formal and informal accountability mechanisms that give legitimacy to the initiative and frequent, genuine and open communication by all parties combine as key factors to sustain ongoing and iterative problem solving to address long-term unemployment. </p>

Service-Oriented Architecture Adoption

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Andrew P. Ciganek ◽  
Marc N. Haines
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Multiple Case Studies

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) have been adopted by organizations in a wide variety of industries, however, best practices have still yet to mature. This article, which is part of a larger study on SOA, develops a normative decision model introducing key factors that influence the timing and approach of adopting a SOA. The decision model is based on the results of multiple case studies of organizations that had either employed or were considering implementing a service-oriented architecture project. The results indicate that there are four main areas an information technology (IT) manager needs to assess to determine when and how to move towards a SOA: the maturity of relevant standards, the technology gap, the organizational gap, and the nature of the benefits expected from a SOA. Analyzing these results suggest that differences in the business environment need to be considered in the decision of when and how an IT manager should pursue the move to a service-oriented architecture.

Exploring the interaction between R&D and production in their globalisation

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 782-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Cheng ◽  
John Johansen ◽  
Haibo Hu
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Country Characteristics ◽  
Impacting Factors

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the discussions on globalisation from production to R&D. It investigates how R&D and production interact with each other in their globalisation processes. Design/methodology/approach – The research aim is developed by identifying the gaps in the reviewed literature. This paper is based on four case studies undertaken in one Chinese manufacturing, one Danish pharmaceutical and two Danish manufacturing companies. The cases provide a sound basis for developing an understanding of the interaction between the globalisation of R&D and production. Findings – This paper identifies three approaches the case companies followed to globalise their production and R&D: interactive globalisation, separated globalisation and a possible combination. The paper indicates that research and development might have to be treated separately with regard to their globalisation, and proposes industry and country characteristics as the key factors for globalisation approach selection, and site capability and strategic decision as the impacting factors for globalisation evolution. Originality/value – This paper emphasises the dispersion of R&D activities, which is seldom addressed by existing internationalisation theories. Its investigation provides a foundation for the further extension of current internationalisation theories to consider global R&D. Moreover, the theoretical gap in the existing literature between global R&D and production is noted. This paper bridges this gap by clarifying the interaction between R&D and production in their globalisation, conceptualising three globalisation approaches, and proposing tentative factors that have impacts on approach selection and management.

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