Advances in Business and Management. Volume 12

In: Advances in Business and Management

Abstract

Intro -- ADVANCES IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT VOLUME 12 -- ADVANCES IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT VOLUME 12 -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 THE GROWING POPULARITY OF PM WITHIN BUSINESSES: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, GLOBALIZATION AND THE ISSUE OF FLEXIBILITY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. HUMAN NEEDS, PRODUCTION AND PM -- 1.1. Time, Activities and Production: Organizational Considerations -- 1.2. From Pre-Industrialization Artisans to Firms: The Rise of Administrative Sciences -- 1.3. The Eminent Domain of PM among Administrative Sciences -- 2. GLOBALIZATION, FIRMS AND THE VALUE OF PM -- 2.1. The Growing Distance between Resources and Needs: More Administration -- 2.2. The Composition of Firms and PM as a New Component -- 2.3. Firms' Informal Ownership Structure and PM Value for Businesses in Context of Globalization -- 3. IMPORTING PM INTO BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: SOME ISSUES -- 3.1. Pre-Considerations on the Definition of Projects -- 3.2. Flexibility, Transaction Costs and Contracts -- 3.3 Project Failure Rate and Organizational Performance -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH -- Chapter 2 THE TWO-WAY LINK BETWEEN SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES MODERATED BY CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA AND METHOD -- Population and Sample -- Earnings Management Measure -- Corporate Social Responsibility Measure -- Corporate Governance System -- Control Variables -- Models of Analyses -- RESULTS -- Descriptive Analysis -- Granger Test of Causality -- Results of Dependency Models -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES -- Chapter 3 DESIGN THINKING, DESIGN MANAGEMENT AND DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR PROMOTING SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE SOLUTIONS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION