ESRC Conference on Rural Transformation in Tropical Africa
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Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
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Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
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Author | : Douglas Rimmer |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Onwuka Chiegwe |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Migration, Internal |
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Author | : Judith Heyer |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1981-06-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 134905318X |
Author | : M. B. Gleave |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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We are at a turning point. Technological breakthroughs and crumbling national barriers are pressuring firms to become more efficient and entrepreneurial in order to compete in globalized markets. At the same time, regulators and activist stakeholders are insisting that firms act more fairly and ethically in their dealings with consumers, with employees, and towards the environment. To meet these contradictory pressures is no simple task. Far-sighted executives are responding by initiating wrenching revisions of their firms' competitive postures, internal controls, and corporate cultures. Turning Points describes in detail how visionary leaders can plan for strategic change and guide their firms through the radical restructurings that such changes entail. As author Charles J. Fombrun puts it:. "Although much has been written about the act of leadership, our firms continue to be managed more like autocracies and fiefdoms than like inspired hotbeds of innovation...Today, the strategic challenge lies in returning to the operating roots from which firms once derived their competitiveness. Achieving vigor will require aggressive redeployments of capital and people to improve timing and differentiation, to exploit synergies, and to mobilize shared interests, both internally with employees, and externally with rivals..." Turning Points shows managers how to become the kinds of transforming leaders the times demand. Dr. Fombrun discusses ongoing changes at prominent companies like AT&T, IBM, General Motors, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Chase Manhattan, Bank America, and many more, to explain how cutting-edge managers identify their firms' true competitors; convert threats into opportunities; break out of obsolete strategic trajectories; cultivate competitive distinctiveness; exploit latent synergies in corporate portfolios; court strategic allies; reshape control structures and work environments; and mobilize the support of all stakeholders. Managers will come away from this book not only with a strong appreciation for how changing environments are likely to affect their firms, but also with fresh insights for how to engineer their firms' passage through such critical turning points.
Author | : T. S. Jayne |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0429833466 |
Contemporary discussions of Africa’s recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation, based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data. However, the micro-level processes driving this transformation are still unclear and remain the subject of debate. This collection provides a micro economic foundation for understanding the particular growth processes at work within the region’s rural areas, and in so doing provides important insights for policy action. The book provides valuable household- and farm-level evidence about the drivers of rural labour productivity, improvements in access to markets, investment in food value chains, and indeed the role of rural economic growth in Africa’s ongoing rural transformation processes. Some of the features of Africa’s ongoing rural transformation are similar to those of agricultural transformation as experienced in Asia and elsewhere. However, other features of Africa’s rural transformation are unique, and pose important challenges for development policy and planning. Together, the studies compiled in this volume provide an updated, evidence-based, and policy-relevant understanding of where African countries are in their developmental trajectories and the region’s prospects for achieving inclusive forms of development over the next several decades. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.
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Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Africa |
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A quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa = Revue trimestrielle du conseil pour le développement de la recherche economique et sociale en Afrique.
Author | : Jean Dreze (ed) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 019828635X |
Part of a major report on world hunger instigated by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, this volume deals with possible solutions to the problem of regular outbreaks of famine in various parts of the world.
Author | : University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
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Author | : Eastern Africa Social Science Research Consultative Group. Conference |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Rural development |
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