...Case Study 2 Financing growth Written by Professor Christine Blondel from INSEAD Senior Advisor to KPMG on Family Business Intelligence First published in October 2013, on the KPMG Family Business blog kpmgfamilybusiness.com Part 1: The Story Case Study 2 Ownership Family Business Part 1: The story Timothy Sages hung up the phone with satisfaction. The franchisee of the Sages group operating supermarkets in the South of the country was willing to sell their operations to the Sages group and the bank acting on the family’s behalf had negotiated a very good price. This was good news for the Sages family because the franchisee was not any longer respecting the group’s long-standing principles of great quality at a good price; the business was declining and the franchisee was getting difficult to deal with. Timothy had become aware that the family owning the franchise was in conflict, with some members eager to exit the venture. One question was still looming: how would the Sages group finance this acquisition? It represented about 10% of the group sales and the real estate was also up for sale as well. Timothy’s father, Thomas Sages, had built a very successful chain of supermarkets, starting with a small, high quality grocery store in 1954. Supermarkets are considered good businesses in terms of working capital requirements, with customers paying cash and suppliers payments being on favourable terms. The development of new supermarkets however, could be...
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...encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. (January 2012) In the social sciences and life sciences, a case study (or case report) is a descriptive, exploratory or explanatory analysis of a person, group or event. An explanatory case study is used to explore causation in order to find underlying principles.[1][2] Case studies may be prospective (in which criteria are established and cases fitting the criteria are included as they become available) or retrospective (in which criteria are established for selecting cases from historical records for inclusion in the study). Thomas[3] offers the following definition of case study: "Case studies are analyses of persons, events, decisions, periods, projects, policies, institutions, or other systems that are studied holistically by one or more methods. The case that is the subject of the inquiry will be an instance of a class of phenomena that provides an analytical frame — an object — within which the study is conducted and which the case illuminates and explicates." Another suggestion is that case study should be defined as a research strategy, an empirical inquiry that investigates a phenomenon within its real-life context. Case study research can mean single and multiple case studies, can include quantitative evidence, relies on multiple sources of evidence, and benefits from the prior development of theoretical propositions. Case studies should not be confused with qualitative research and they can be based on any mix of quantitative...
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...Critique. This paper is a critique of F Demie’s ‘Achievement of Black Caribbean pupils: good practice in Lambeth schools’, which is an interpretive study by Feyisa Demie Jan McKenley, Chris Power, and Louise Ishani. The LEA provided the funding for this research project. The aim of the research according to Demie was to ‘Identify a number of significant common themes for success in raising the achievement of Caribbean heritage pupils’. In order to analyse these achievement rates, Researchers looked at good practise in Lambeth schools. Demie does not provide the reader with any clues in regard to the researchers’ backgrounds and qualifications. One cannot learn from the report under analysis whether Demie et al were LEA employees with a task to prepare a ground for future policy making. Demie et al chose to study 10 primary and 3 secondary schools in the Lambeth region, where the rates of Black Caribbean performance were reported to be above national and LEA (Local Education Authority) averages. The aim of the investigation was to identify the factors enabling pupils of Black Caribbean origin to achieve high standards in British schools, and to track ‘significant common themes for success in raising the achievement’ (Demie, 2005) of Black Caribbean pupils. Researchers used a subjectivist and interpretive viewpoint throughout the study. Crotty (1989, p. 83) states that a modern interpretive researcher examines ‘Experience from ‘the point of view’ or ‘perspective’ of the subject”...
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...discuss this case as part of our Unit 4 cohort meeting. The key question to discuss is, "What two chapters from the Sage handbook on leadership best help one frame and understand the leadership issues presented by this case?". As you think about and discuss your answer(s) to this key question also think about these sub-questions: 1. Who in the Prince Edward County school desegregation case is a leader? Explain your choice(s). 2. What leadership was missing in the case? What would have been different had that leadership occurred? Support your thinking with reference to the Sage Handbook. 3. What leadership is represented in the case that is not well-captured or addressed in chapters from the Sage Handbook? 4. How did the analysis of the case affect your thinking after initial reading of the case? 5. What implications about causality and change do you now believe are important in our study of leadership? 6. Generally speaking, what does this case tell us about leadership? Who in the Prince Edward County school desegregation case is a leader? Barbara Rose Jones- led the students to meet after getting principal out of school on false call. Principal Jones asked students not to strike. Jones and Carrie Stokes he asked to write letter to NAACP attorneys Strike committee meets with school superintendent. T.J. McIllwaine Wed- NAACP attorneys Oliver Hill came to speak with group Barbara Jones succeeded in restoring crowd’s support May 23 case filed in federal...
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...Qualitative Research Defining and Designing 1 8 T he qualitative research methods introduced in this book are often employed to answer the whys and hows of human behavior, opinion, and experience— information that is difficult to obtain through more quantitatively-oriented methods of data collection. Researchers and practitioners in fields as diverse as anthropology, education, nursing, psychology, sociology, and marketing regularly use qualitative methods to address questions about people’s ways of organizing, relating to, and interacting with the world. Despite the interdisciplinary recognition of the value of “qualitative research” (or perhaps because of it), qualitative research is not a unified field of theory and practice. On the contrary, a plethora of viewpoints, sometimes diametrically opposed to one another, exist on the subject. Scholars regularly debate about what qualitative research is, how and why it should be conducted, how it should be analyzed, and in what form it should be presented. In fact, fundamental and often heated disagreements about philosophical assumptions and the nature of data exist among qualitative researchers. We don’t pretend to be able to solve any of these controversies. Nor do we suggest one approach or viewpoint is superior to another in the grand scheme of things. How one approaches qualitative research, and research in general, depends on a variety of personal, professional, political, and contextual factors. Ultimately, there...
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...Introduction Each family is unique and unrepeatable and hence the impossibility of creating family types to accommodate certain patterns. Thus, this case study research will research on the issue that how the diversity in different aspects of family affects the day – to-day life of the family and family dynamics. The basic task is to gather information about the family members and then discuss how the how the family dynamics is affected due to diversity. The changes in modes of family life arouse intense debate in as to the permanence and balance guaranteed by traditional models. Reconstituted families, single parents, arising from divorce, unwed motherhood or other factors, or complex families, among others, represents an innovation compared to traditional modes of nuclear family, consisting of a man and a woman with dependent children or families with one parent as a result of widowhood. In this family the person learns how to be and what to do once adult, who must assume the role of head of household, husband or wife, father or mother. This learning will be influenced by the models of relatives of his clan and its environment and cultural models of their studies of literature, film, television, etc. But it is essential the individual's experience in his own family. Although family diversity is not new, the extent of this phenomenon was only noticeable during recent years, in both past generations and we believe that this time is not sufficient for "Roles" have been codified...
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...Organization Studies http://oss.sagepub.com ‘Subterranean Worksick Blues’: Humour as Subversion in Two Call Centres Phil Taylor and Peter Bain Organization Studies 2003; 24; 1487 DOI: 10.1177/0170840603249008 The online version of this article can be found at: http://oss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/24/9/1487 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: European Group for Organizational Studies Additional services and information for Organization Studies can be found at: Email Alerts: http://oss.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://oss.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Citations http://oss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/24/9/1487 Downloaded from http://oss.sagepub.com at SAGE Publications on July 31, 2009 1487 Authors name ‘Subterranean Worksick Blues’: Humour as Subversion in Two Call Centres Phil Taylor and Peter Bain Abstract Phil Taylor University of Stirling, UK Peter Bain University of Strathclyde, UK This article engages in debates stimulated by previous work published in Organization Studies, and more widely, on the purpose and effects of workers’ humour and joking practices. The authors emphasize the subversive character of humour in the workplace, rejecting perspectives which see humour as inevitably contributing to organizational harmony. Drawing on methodologies, including ethnography, which permitted...
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...distorts the results of a study and undermines validity. (Polit and Beck, 2008). Codes Codes are the combination of data for themes, ideas, concepts and categories making the data easy to search, to make comparisons and to identify any patterns (Sage, n.d.). Construct Construct is the abstract idea, underlying theme, or subject matter that one wishes to measure using survey questions (e.g., health locus of control)( Polit and Beck,2008). Controlled Variable A variable that remains unchanged or held constant in a research analysis (About.com, n.d.). Correlation Degree and type of relationship between any two or more variables in which they vary together over a period and how well can one factor predict another (Polit and Beck, 2008). Critiquing It is a research that involves a careful, complete examination of a study to judge its strengths, weaknesses, logical links, meaning and significance (Nursing Planet, n.d.). Data Data is a piece of information in raw form collected by researcher through observations, experiments or interview. The pieces of information obtained in a study (Polit and Beck, 2008.) Data analysis The process of evaluating data using analytical and logical reasoning to examine each component of the data provided (Business Dictionary, n.d.). The systematic organization and synthesis of research data and. in quantitative studies, the testing of hypotheses using those data (Polit and Beck, 2008). Demographics Studies of a population or population...
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...UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY - MUKONO CONCEPT PAPER ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE GRANT FOR EMPOWERMENT’S TARGETING MECHANISM IN THE SELECTION OF SENIOR CITIZEN GRANT BENEFICIARIES. A CASE FOR COMMUNITY BASED TARGETING IN KOLE DISTRICT. PRESENTED BY ANDREW NEWTON OGEI odrew2002@yahoo.com RS15M13/602 MASTERS OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background Social transfers are increasingly seen as a key tool in Eastern and Southern Africa to combat the triple threat of chronic poverty, hunger and HIV/AIDS (Hyper & Veras, 2012).Social transfers have over the years been the main focus for most aid organisation and multilateral agencies in transferring aid and support to developing countries. These social transfers take the form of cash or in-kind transfer. They are also in form of conditional and unconditional social transfers. According to World Bank, Cash transfers are defined as the provision of assistance in the form of cash to the poor or to those who face a probable risk of falling into poverty in the absence of the transfer. In Africa, these cash transfer programme are being used as a means to fight and eradicate poverty. These programme target different categories of vulnerable groups such as; elderly persons, children, orphans, women, widows and people with disability. In Africa cash transfer programmes are being implemented in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to mention but a few. Modest but regular and predictable income transfers helps...
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...September 2003 447-461 http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR8-3/mccaslin.pdf The Five-Question Method For Framing A Qualitative Research Study Mark L. McCaslin University of Idaho, Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA Karen Wilson Scott University of Idaho, Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA The Five-Question Method is an approach to framing Qualitative Research, focusing on the methodologies of five of the major traditions in qualitative research: biography, ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, and case study. Asking Five Questions, novice researchers select a methodology appropriate to the desired perspective on the selected topic. The Method facilitates identifying and writing a Problem Statement. Through taking a future perspective, the researcher discovers the importance and direction of the study and composes a Purpose Statement. The process develops an overarching research question integrating the purpose and the research problem. The role of the researcher and management of assumptions and biases is discussed. The Five-Question Method simplifies the framing process promoting quality in qualitative research design. A course outline is appended. Key words: Qualitative Research, Five-Question Method, Biography Research, Phenomenology Research, Grounded Theory Research, Case Study Research, and Ethnography Research Introduction Planning a qualitative study for the first time tends to be an intimidating venture for graduate students just entering the field. Even armed with a topic of interest...
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...conceptual foundations and acquiring psychological skills through classroom teaching/learning consisting of reflective as well as creative engagement in exercises, projects and hands on experiences. The teaching-learning of the programme would be organized through lectures, group discussions, experiential exercises, group projects, presentations, workshops and seminars. Students would be encouraged to connect to real life issues and participate in the programs and practices in the different social context. To this end practicum is incorporated as an important component in most of the papers with hands on training in the use of various research methods such as: laboratory experiments, field experiments, observation, testing, survey, interview, case study. The programme has three components i.e. Discipline 1(DC1), Discipline 2 (DC2) and Application courses (AC). While in DC 1 practicum is a key component, AC follows a modular pattern where hands on training will be provided for developing psychological skills and their applications. Every semester, teaching will be spread over 16 weeks, including 2 weeks for review. Teaching of DC 1 and...
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...escorting medicine in as an establishment to take care of our communities and patients. Over the years, hospitals have been the brunt of antitrust litigation. Between 1985 and 1999 hospitals were defendants in 61 percent of 394 medical antitrust disputes that led courts to issue formal opinions (Hammer, Peter, J. and Sage, William, M., 2003). However, these numbers do not support the under published cases, which do not result in a judicial decision. When hospitals are healthcare conglomerates to provide services antitrust views them as just a business. The services provided by hospitals are complex from the services they provide to the technology they use to the human capital necessary to run the operations of the hospital. Unfortunately, antitrust law concentrates on the overall hospitals behavior and not its purpose. Therefore, not-for-profit designation and lifesaving intentions of the hospital consider immaterial to any type of analysis performed by antitrust. Hospitals reserve the right to enter into any joint venture agreement provided each entity is able to achieve its objects autonomous of one another and avoid becoming a dominate player in the market (Hammer and Sage, 2003). For the most part, it will be the market that dictates if the hospital meets the demands and services demanded by the community. The challenge of healthcare antitrust law is not its insignificance or opposition to hospitals or physicians commitments to provide outstanding care, but its incapacity to rationally...
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...The Qualitative Report Volume 14 Number 1 March 2009 42-60 http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR14-1/diaz-andrade.pdf Interpretive Research Aiming at Theory Building: Adopting and Adapting the Case Study Design Antonio Díaz Andrade The University of Auckland Business School, Auckland, New Zealand Although the advantages of case study design are widely recognised, its original positivist underlying assumptions may mislead interpretive researchers aiming at theory building. The paper discusses the limitations of the case study design for theory building and explains how grounded theory systemic process adds to the case study design. The author reflects upon his experience in conducting research on the articulation of both traditional social networks and new virtual networks in six rural communities in Peru, using both case study design and grounded theory in a combined fashion in order to discover an emergent theory. Key Words: Case Study, Interpretive Approach, Theory Building, and Grounded Theory Introduction Researchers adopting a case study design face a number of challenges in making their argument. Yin (2003) himself warns researchers who adopt a case study design to be conscious that their findings will be challenged and prefaces his book enumerating the alleged weaknesses in the case study; a methodology that downgrades the academic disciplines and lacks sufficient precision, objectivity, and rigour. We should note that those warnings come from an author who operates from...
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...businesses are run have made them more successful (if using profit as the measurement of success)? c. How have they continued to attract customers to their shops despite falling numbers of patrons during the recession? d. To what measurable extent has the recession impacted their business? e. In a broader sense, are mutuals more competitive in their sector/industry by virtue of containing positive aspects falling into one of the questions above? II. Section 2 III. Section 3 Section 1 How have social enterprises fared better than their for-profit rivals during the recession? The economic recession has had a negative impact on the performance of most businesses in the UK. However, this appears not to be the case with social enterprises. During the recession, most social enterprises seem to be growing and have reaped more benefits as they seek to achieve their goals. Social investment has remained vibrant even in the face of the economic recession. Unlike the for–profit enterprises, social enterprises derive their capital and labour for philanthropic, government and commercial bodies. This means that social enterprises have a great pool, of investors as well as a greater capacity to attract talented and more skilled labour. Legal structures in the UK have been reformed in such a manner that they favour the social enterprises. This means that the social enterprises are less likely to suffer from corruption as the regulations have been made to ensure...
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