EVEN grassroots banking hasn’t been able to escape the global financial crisis. Dozens of the community bank branches operated jointly by Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and a local community have experienced deepening losses over the past six months, with branches from Balmain in Sydney to Cobden in Victoria’s west, seeing their balance sheets turn a little shaky. More..
Monthly Archive for May, 2009
The first issue of Volume 9 of The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management has now been published.
Volume 9, Number 1 contains:
- World Cities and Shifting Economic Development Trajectories in the Age of Globalization by Jonathan Hinton Westover.
- An Investigation of the Relationships between Users and Providers of Information Technology Services for Improved IT Effectiveness by Arthur C. McAdams.
- Knowledge Management: An Integrated Approach by Prabhakar Venugopal Gantasala, Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala and Krishna Naik Chanda Naikgari.
- Managing Hard-Core Students in Malaysia: A Case Study by Khalim Zainal.
- Organisational Change as Emancipatory Struggle: The Limits of Thinking Organisational Becoming by Thorsten Jelinek.
- The Role of Self-Leadership in Innovation and Creativity Employee by Ali Shaemi and Hadi Teimouri.
- The Influence of Employee Engagement on Knowledge Management by Prabhakar Venugopal Gantasala, Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala and Krishna Naik Chanda Naikgari.
- Leaders Exerting Pressure for Positive Change: Leverage for Educational Leadership Reform by W. Fred Ivy, Don P. Schulte and Barbara S. S. Hong.
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The final issue of Volume 8 of The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management has now been published.
Volume 8, Number 12 contains:
- Strategies for Community Renewal: Exemplary Leadership and Church Revitalization in Psycho-dynamic Perspective by Jeffrey R. Pugh.
- HR Professionals’ Effectiveness in a Knowledge-Based Organization: A Malaysian Case by Mohmad Yazam Sharif and Aqeel Ahmad.
- Stakeholders: A Real Phenomenon in Czech Firms by Zuzana Dohnalová.
- The National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications: A Community of Practice Case Study from New Zealand by Trevor Nesbit.
- The Entrepreneurial Capitalist as Hero: Worldwide Cultural Re-framing of the Innovative Business Leader’s Value to Society, 1985-2005 by Andrew Herrity.
- Use of the Lewis Model to Analyse Multicultural Teams and Improve Performance by the World Bank: A Case Study by Michael John Gates, Richard D. Lewis, Iouri P. Bairatchnyi and Mark Brown.
- Productive Diversity: Exploring Common Ground through Cultural Analysis by Annette E. Craven, Pat LeMay Burr and Erika Valdez.
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Common Ground Publishing has launched a new imprint, The Organisation.
You can now submit proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:
- individually and jointly authored books;
- edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme;
- collections of papers published in The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management.
Books should be between 30,000 words to 150,000 words in length. They will be published simultaneously in print and electronic formats.
Maria E. Burke, University of Salford, Salford, UK
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Dr. Burke’s research is based in the area of Information Management. She currently holds a position at the University of Salford’s Business School within the Information Systems Group which was awarded a 6* rating in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. In addition she is a Visiting Fellow at the Jagiellonian University in Poland and has held visiting posts with the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Budapest University of Technology and the Nicholas Copernicus University in North Poland. More…
Richard Harris, University of Glasgow, UK
www.ManagementConference.com
Richard Harris is the Alec Cairncross Chair of Applied Economics and the Director of the Centre for Public Policy for Regions at the University of Glasgow, UK. His research interests include micro-analysis of firm/plant level productivity in the UK using panel data; differences in (UK) regional performance; evaluation of government industrial policy; and, relative performance of UK SMEs. Future research includes Gibrat’s law - estimates for UK industry; Evaluation methodology for impact of government assistance on TFP; and, Relative performance of family-owned SMEs. More…
The London Review of Books has recently published The Money that Prays, an article by Jeremy Harding about banking in the Islamic world and how it fares in the economic downturn.
Last September, as dust and debris from the tellers’ floors began raining onto the empty vaults below, a note of satisfaction was sounded by bankers in the Arab world. Financial institutions sticking to the tenets of Islam, they announced, were largely immune from the debt crisis. Devout Muslims may lend and borrow under certain conditions; they can even buy and sell debt in the form of ‘Islamic’ bonds, but most other kinds of debt trading are frowned on. Al Rajhi Bank, based in Saudi Arabia, and the Kuwait Finance House posted impressive profits in 2008. Both have come under some nervous scrutiny in 2009 but their ability to weather the recession that has set in behind the credit crunch is not at issue.