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1031989
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b786359
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Eapen, Gill.
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Flexibility : : flexible companies for the uncertain world /\ Gill Eapen.
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| Publication Statement
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Boca Raton :: CRC Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (ix, 182 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1439816336
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: 1439887950
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: 9781439816332
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: 9781439887950
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1439816328
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9781138112391
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9781439816325
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Uncertainty and flexibility -- 2. The evolution of organizations and the environment -- 3. Components of an organization -- 4. Structure -- 5. System -- 6. Strategy -- 7. Flexibility metrics -- 8. Diagnostic kit and tactics -- 9. Creating a flexible company -- 10. Flexible countries and the world.
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| Abstract
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We are in an era of high volatility and uncertain outcomes, driven by accelerating technologies, shortened product cycles, fast-changing information, an increasingly mobile workforce, more demanding customers, complex financial markets, ad-hoc public policies, and many other factors that add layers of uncertainty to all future possibilities. While most believe that good management requires better prediction of the future and better planning, Gill Eapen instead contends that the best way to manage effectively in an uncertain world is through the conscious application of flexibility - an ability.
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Business cycles.
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Management.
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Organizational change.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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Beslutsfattande.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Management Science.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Management.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Organizational Behavior.
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Business cycles.
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Flexibilitet.
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Konjunkturer.
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Management.
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Management.
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Organisationsförändringar.
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Organizational change.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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| Dewey Classification
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658.4/01
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HD58.8.E175 2010eb
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