The book proposes a kind of contingency theory of management: different situations demand different kinds of management.
In the first session, Julian Birkinshaw proposed a contingency theory of management: different situations demand different kinds of management.
Some professional money managers are starting to treat commodities as a tradable asset class, which bothers some traditional investors as each commodity has different supply and demand fundamentals.
If the firms that do most of the hiring are not consultancies or investment banks, they may demand different skills: perhaps expertise in engineering or law, rather than a general understanding of business principles, acquired at great expense.
Their solution is to stimulate the economy at a different level, the demand level.
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The first is centralised liquidity management, enabling cross-border banks to move money between different territories as needs demand.
If you bring five different people coffee on demand, that's less assisting one's supervisors and more waiting on them.
Toyota Motorsport president John Howett has already come out in support of Ferrari's demand for different engines for the teams.
But if many workers across many different industries were to demand protection at once, the selfish appeal of such a shield would fade.
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Location decisions, he says, also affect the prices that firms can charge for their products, and that in turn affects demand in different regions.
These competing views of America demand very different policy responses.
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In the case of Estonia, for example, the Ministry of Economics and Communications was able to provide a list of professions in demand in different areas, but there was no way of finding out the specific kinds of professionals needed in each area.
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Demand for something different grew so big, microbrewing spread to even the tiniest villages.
Unison said a combination of different factors, including increased demand and reduced government funding, had stretched resources to "breaking point".
To address this question, we must define and distinguish between two very different types of entrepreneurship, demand-side entrepreneurship and supply-side entrepreneurship.
Chrysler, meanwhile, is in some ways ahead of Ford and GM in reducing costs and complexity by sharing underbodies and parts between different vehicles and brands, and by building vehicles in flexible factories that can build different models in response to demand.
He also said that it may not come to all parts of the world as different regions will determine the local demand.
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In the west, it has prevented wages adjusting to changes in the demand for and supply of different types of workers.
Buyers in poor countries demand solutions on an entirely different price-performance curve.
The company therefore developed a complex model that took all the frequently changing dynamics of the cargo industry into account, as well as opportunities for different negotiation strategies based on supply and demand.
TAB, New Zealand's official betting agency, which set up a large tent across the road from the competition, expanded the number and types of shearing-related bets to meet demand, taking wagers in different divisions.
Greater choice (measured more broadly now: the econometric issues are different) is found to increase the demand for teachers who are better qualified, or went to better colleges, or have good maths and science skills, or are willing to work longer hours than their contracts require.
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Long-term interest rates are a different story, driven mostly by global credit demand, which in turn varies with the global economy.
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The trigger for the recent crash was very different: The reversal in fortunes came when demand, fueled by easy money and rampant speculation, collapsed.
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Not only that, but it was unclear what exactly the target should be, since money could be defined in different ways: narrowly, as cash and demand deposits held with commercial banks, or broadly, including savings deposits with other financial institutions.
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