Articles
Communities of Practice in Knowledge Transfer
The achievement and effective use of knowledge is widely accepted by contemporary managements, theorists and researchers to be the chief source of competitive advantage of modern day business organisations.
The Role of Business Leadership in Organisational Success
The concept of business leadership and its role in organisational success continues to be an intensely debated topic in modern day management theory and practice.
Strategic Analysis: The Case of Sainsbury’s Plc
The application of strategic analytical models to an organisation and the evaluation of their results helps in the generation of a comprehensive corporate strategy.
Deliberate and Emergent Schools for Strategy
Deliberate and Emergent strategies are situated at two ends of the strategic continuum, but have been used with success by modern organisations.
Strategy Formulation and Management of Change Application to a Healthcare Organisation
The application of strategy to a particular business sector makes it easier to understand its practical implications than a generalised discussion.
Accounting is a Strategic Business Tool
Several experts, from the 1980s onward, have focused on the importance of strategic management accounting and presented strong cases for its adoption.
The Use of History in the Field of Intelligence in the Backdrop of Major Epistemological Limitations to its use as a Learning Tool
History very clearly affects learning and the course of events (Butterfield, 1965). Historical research has, however, been constantly exposed to external bias on account of its role in the development of social and political consensus through the definition of collective identities, loyalties and exclusions, ever since the 19th century, when it was incorporated as an essential element of school curricula in European countries, aimed at raising soldiers and patriots.
The use of Hadith in the Recording of Early Islam
The Hadith literature does not constitute a primary source of information because it was compiled from various oral reports some years after the death of the Prophet It is, however, considered, revered and appreciated as an important source of Islamic history, moral guidance and religious law, second only to the Quran.
Airline Sector and Aviation Industry: What you need to Know
The world’s first airline DELAG was established at Frankfurt, Germany in November 1909. It operated airships that were made by The Zeppelin Corporation (Doganis, 2001). This was followed by the setting up of the first fixed-wing airline, i.e. Aircraft Transport and Travel in 1916 in the UK (Doganis, 2001).
How Would You Win a War?
An examination of extant research and writing revealed that whilst uniform principles and methods of fighting and winning wars are yet to be acknowledged and agreed upon, individual nations and armies have developed and formulated their own strategies over time with the help of diverse, unique inputs
An Introduction to Keynesian Economics
John Keynes (1883-1946) and his followers developed a school of economic tho0ught that led to a paradigm shift in economics, replacing the study of the economic behaviour of companies and individuals, i.e. microeconomics, with the investigation of the behaviour of the economy in totality, namely macroeconomics.
Organisational Resilience: What is it and why does it matter during a Crisis
The ability of organisations to withstand and survive such crises depends upon their organisational resilience, an attribute that differs from organisation to organisation and is built through the implementation of various strategies and policies in areas like organisational structure, human resource management, funding, reserve creation, innovative ability, operational leanness, and resource utilisation.