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Publication date: 1 March 1987

Lawrence A. Bennigson and Howard Swartz

CEOs increasingly face the need to foster radical change in their organizations. The makeover may require them to invent a culture that is pervasive, comprehensive, and sharply…

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CEOs increasingly face the need to foster radical change in their organizations. The makeover may require them to invent a culture that is pervasive, comprehensive, and sharply divergent from the behavior and values of the past. Lacking experience as transformational leaders, most CEOs resort to traditional techniques. They alter structure, modify some systems, and move a few key people. However, simply manipulating these “hard” systems is not enough. In order to bring about the changes necessary for success, the CEO must also alter “soft” systems—including beliefs about the firm and its future, and the style of its key managers.

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Planning Review, vol. 15 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0094-064X

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Publication date: 21 August 2007

Christa Boske

The purpose of this study is to examine the interactions among superintendents' chief executive school officers, multicultural attitudes and actions for children from marginalized…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to examine the interactions among superintendents' chief executive school officers, multicultural attitudes and actions for children from marginalized populations.

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Members of the American Association of School Administrators, 945 school superintendents, completed the self‐reported, single‐staged, electronic survey. The survey consisted of four sections: a modified multicultural questionnaire; a modified diversity action survey; a national diversity leadership questionnaire; and a personal heritage questionnaire.

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Respondents scored moderate (2.0‐3.0) on both multicultural attitudes and diversity actions. The study found a positive correlation between multicultural attitudes and diversity actions. Through a regression analysis, a significant model predicting diversity actions from multicultural attitudes was selected. The study found a positive significant correlation between attitudes and diversity actions.

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There is limited theoretical and practical implications regarding the multicultural attitudes of school leaders and how these attitudes influence their decision making. This paper addresses this.

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International Journal of Educational Management, vol. 21 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-354X

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Publication date: 1 April 2000

Michael J. Dorsch, Stephen J. Grove and William R. Darden

Even though service marketers are interested in influencing customer choice at the service provider level (i.e. the service brand level), the decision to patronize a particular…

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Even though service marketers are interested in influencing customer choice at the service provider level (i.e. the service brand level), the decision to patronize a particular service firm seldom occurs until after the customer decides to use a service provider in the first place. Ultimately, this initial “make‐or‐buy” purchase decision – the decision to use a service category – restrains customer decisions at the service provider (brand) level. To enhance our understanding of customers’ service category decisions, a double cross‐validation approach was employed to investigate the applicability of a service category choice model which we adapted from Howard’s work on consumer decision making. Our model, which was tested with two different service categories, was supported.

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Journal of Services Marketing, vol. 14 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0887-6045

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Publication date: 2 May 2017

Kristi L. Swartz

To analyze the amendment to the Payment Systems and Stored Value Facilities Ordinance, Chapter 584 of the Laws of Hong Kong (“Ordinance”) and its impact on business development…

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To analyze the amendment to the Payment Systems and Stored Value Facilities Ordinance, Chapter 584 of the Laws of Hong Kong (“Ordinance”) and its impact on business development, with a focus on fintech companies operating in Hong Kong.

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This article explains the concept of stored value facilities (“SVF”), discusses the overall changes in the Ordinance and comments on recent business developments of companies benefitting from SVF.

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This article highlights the benefits of the amendment to the Ordinance and how fintech companies are evolving to better business practices to make use of the new legislation. Companies operating with SVF licences are creating healthy competition which is innovating the marketplace for products made available to customers.

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This article contains valuable information about the changes to the Ordinance as well as insight on how the fintech landscape is adapting to a new regime from an experienced corporate finance and securities lawyer.

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Journal of Investment Compliance, vol. 18 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1528-5812

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Publication date: 1 March 2008

Richard C. Becherer, Mark E. Mendenhall and Karen Ford Eickhoff

Entrepreneurship and leadership may flow from the same genealogical source and the appearance of separation of the two constructs may be due to differences in the contexts through…

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Entrepreneurship and leadership may flow from the same genealogical source and the appearance of separation of the two constructs may be due to differences in the contexts through which the root phenomenon flows. Entrepreneurship and leadership are figuratively different manifestations of the need to create. To better understand the origin of entrepreneurship and leadership, research must first focus on the combinations or hierarchy of traits that are necessary, but perhaps not sufficient, to stimulate the two constructs. Factors that trigger a drive to create or take initiative within the individual in the context of a particular circumstance should be identified, and the situational factors that move the individual toward more traditional leader or classic entrepreneurial-type behaviors need to be understood.

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New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, vol. 11 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1550-333X

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Publication date: 16 June 2017

William Riggs and Ruth L. Steiner

This chapter introduces how the built environment and walking are connected. It looks at the interrelationships within the built environment, and how those are changing given…

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This chapter introduces how the built environment and walking are connected. It looks at the interrelationships within the built environment, and how those are changing given planning and policy efforts to facilitate increased walking for both leisure activity and commuting. Using a broad review and case-based approach, the chapter examines this epistemological development of walking and the built environment over time, reviews the connections, policies and design strategies and emerging issues. The chapter shows many cases of cities which are creating a more walkable environment. It also reveals that emerging issues related to technology and autonomous vehicles, vision zero and car-free cities, and increased regional policy may play a continued role in shaping the built environment for walking. This dialogue provides both a core underpinning and a future vision for how the built environment can continue to influence and respond to pedestrians in shaping a more walkable world.

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Publication date: 7 September 2008

Chad Alan Goldberg

The insights of T. H. Marshall and Pierre Bourdieu are drawn upon, integrated and extended to show how social spending policies have been key sites for historical struggles over…

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The insights of T. H. Marshall and Pierre Bourdieu are drawn upon, integrated and extended to show how social spending policies have been key sites for historical struggles over the boundaries and rights of American citizenship. In the 19th century, paupers forfeited their civil and political rights in exchange for relief. Rather than break definitively with this legacy, major policy innovations in the United States that expanded state involvement in social provision generated struggles over whether to model the new policies on or distinguish them from traditional poor relief. At stake in these struggles were the citizenship status and rights of the policies’ clients. Both the emergence of such citizenship struggles and their outcomes are explained. These struggles emerged when policy innovations created new groups of clients, the new policy treated clients in contradictory ways and policy elites formed ties to social movements with stakes in the status and rights of the policy's clients. The outcomes of the struggles have been shaped by the institutional structure of the policy and the manner and extent to which the policy became entangled in racial politics. Historical evidence for these claims is provided by a case study of the Works Progress Administration, an important but understudied component of the New Deal welfare state.

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Political Power and Social Theory
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-76231-418-8

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Publication date: 1 September 1993

V‐W Mitchell

In this paper, the main objective will be to discuss the factors which can influence the usage of risk reducing strategies found in the literature over the past 30 years. Some of…

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In this paper, the main objective will be to discuss the factors which can influence the usage of risk reducing strategies found in the literature over the past 30 years. Some of the factors which have relatively consistent effects include age, socio‐economic group, education while other factors show complex effect e.g. self‐confidence, loss‐type and product risk. On the whole, the literature on risk reduction and how it is affected is unable to provide would‐be researchers with clear guidance for questionnaire construction and research design.

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Management Research News, vol. 16 no. 9/10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-9174

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Publication date: 19 December 2017

Karin Klenke

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Women in Leadership 2nd Edition
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-064-8

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Publication date: 17 February 2020

Simon Grima and Eleftherios I. Thalassinos

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Financial Derivatives: A Blessing or a Curse?
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78973-245-0

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