Lobbying as a Part of Business Management

Lobbying by companies and the management techniques of lobbying have been fairly unknown territory. This study explains different theories related to lobbying including major political, economic and mathematical theories and their connections to lobbying. Existing lobbying networks in the European Union, especially at the European Union level, are explained. Lobbying organisations in the European Union are interconnected. Networks start at a local level, and have connections to national, European Union, international and sometimes to the global level. Relationships between business strategy and lobbying are studied with emphasis on issues management. Business strategy is often seen stemming from business environment analysis and stakeholder management. The issues management concept bridges aspects of business environment analysis and stakeholder management into a project type of management approach. The study includes two different empirical parts. A sample of public policy managers representing the European chemical industry was interviewed, and a chemical industry specific lobbying framework was built. This framework was then tested using a questionnaire sent to European public issues managers representing some of the largest European companies. Based on the results of the questionnaire, a generic framework on how large, European companies manage lobbying in general terms was developed.

Small business management in English

The goal was to define how growth creates problems in small companies with a staff of uner 20, and how the problems are solved. It is not about fast growing companies, but about smoothly or even slowly growing companies. The growth is started through the turnover and the main motive is to have a economic stability. Almost all the companies felt that the main reason for this strate-gic growth was to increase the competitivety. Growth was mainly from the domestic market, and new products and new markets. The biggest problem with this growth was providing capital and also a lack of reas-surance. In additinon to this it was dificult to find suitable personnel and there was a lack of time needed to plan and develop the operation. The lack of product develop-ment, was found to be a problem to some extent, particulary in smaller companies. The follow-up of the finances take place mainly through the profit and loss account, income statement and balance sheets. Apart from that they find the follow up by pro-duct was important. Another important element was to have company tailor-made consulting/sparring in order to develop the operation.

“Flipped Classroom” for Teaching Business Research in a Business Management Course

This presentation will report on a cross-department collaboration between the library and the business/economics department at Lehman College to conduct information literacy instruction as a “flipped classroom.”

E-business: Management e strategia nell'era di internet

Le tecnologie sviluppatesi a cavallo del nuovo millennio hanno dato e stanno dando un grande impulso all'evoluzione dei processi che riguardano qualsiasi campo della vita di oggigiorno: tutto ciò riguarda ovviamente anche le aziende, che si adoperano nel trovare nuove soluzioni che possano garantire profitti maggiori abbinati a costi di gestione minori. Risulta quindi interessante approcciarsi allo studio dei processi decisionali ed organizzativi che interessano un'azienda e come i suddetti vengano influenzati dall'uso delle tecnologie. In particolare, l'adattamento delle strategie e dei modelli di business alle tecnologie odierne è una sfida interessante e ripetuta nel tempo, in quanto le tecnologie si sviluppano e si evolvono in tempi sempre più brevi, con tutti i vantaggi ed i rischi del caso. Questa tesi si pone l'obiettivo di analizzare i temi inerenti all'E-Business, ovvero l'applicazione delle Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in supporto alle attività di business di un'azienda. Verrano esaminati in che modo un'impresa deve approcciarsi per sviluppare ed implementare una strategia e-business, quali sono i fattori che influenzano una strategia, quali sono i vantaggi e gli svantaggi dell'adozione di tale strategia.

The business management strategy of Iran's large apparel firms : overview of results from a questionnaire survey and interviews 2009-2011

This paper is an overview of the results from a questionnaire survey and subsequent supplementary interviews of Iran's large apparel firms conducted by the author in 2009-2011. Most of the large apparel firms in Iran are based in Tehran and have been in business for some twenty years. They have a solid business with regular customers, but in general have hesitated to expand the size of their firms. Following the relaxation of restrictions on the procurement of raw materials that existed in the 1990s, the results of survey and interviews show that the firms have developed new channels of procurement although they depend to a considerable degree on imported raw materials and machinery. They have managed to maintain their level of output even with the rapid increase in imports since 2000, although the number of firms has decreased. Low-priced Chinese products have basically not been their rivals; instead, the inflow of foreign name-brand products have hit them heavily.

A syllabus for Communication in business management /

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Pollution prevention and business management : curricula for schools of business & public health /

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Small business goes to college : college and university courses in small business management and entrepreneurship /

"Texts and materials used in small business": p. 44-52.

Measuring impacts of an holistic farm business management training program

A case study approach within an action research framework incorporating qualitative and quantitative domains was adopted to explore the impact on Queensland farmers of a farm business management extension programme. Three new indices were developed to quantify changes perceived by participants. The first measure, the Bennett Change Index, provided statistically significant evidence that attitudinal and behavioural changes were more frequent in participants with less formal education, but also more frequent in participants who had high urbanisation and self-directed learning index scores. The other 2 new indices, Management Constructs Change and Management Objectives Change, provided evidence of statistically significant changes in participant beliefs about, and attitudes towards, farm business management. Although highly correlated with each other, these changes were unrelated statistically to any of 6 other commonly used biographical or psychometric indices employed; including level of formal education. It is concluded that these new measures, with context-relevant modifications, have potential as aids to programme impact evaluation in a range of agricultural and wider applications. They may provide insights into personal psychological issues that complement direct behavioural measures of change.