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Rating Management's Effectiveness

With Case Studies in Telecommunications

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Authors:
  1. Dimitris N. Chorafas
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Management Makes the Difference between Success and Failure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Concept of Management Effectiveness

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      Pages 3-27
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    3. Rating Agencies, Management Effectiveness and Creditworthiness

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      Pages 28-48
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    4. Is Mismanagement an Exception?

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      Pages 49-75
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    5. A Survival Strategy: Reinventing the Firm

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      Pages 76-99
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    6. Management and Mismanagement in the Telecommunications Industry

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      Pages 100-123
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  3. Case Studies in Management Effectiveness in the Telecommunications Industry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Big Telecommunications Companies Brought Themselves to the Edge of the Abyss

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      Pages 127-149
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    3. Mismanagement Led to the Downfall of Vivendi Universal

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      Pages 150-169
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    4. Lessons from the Crash of WorldCom

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      Pages 170-197
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    5. Lessons from the Fall of Global Crossing, Qwest, Exodus, Adelphia Communications and More

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      Pages 198-224
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    6. Third-generation Mobile and the UMTS Licences

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      Pages 225-251
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    7. The Fate of Vendors who Leveraged their Clients

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      Pages 252-277
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  4. Back Matter

    Pages 278-287
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About this book

This book explains why and how management's effectiveness makes the difference between success and failure, in any organization. Based on extensive research in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland, the author outlines how to be effective, what happens in cases of ineffectiveness, and the reasons why management's effectiveness must be examined within the perspective of each company's business challenges.

About the author

Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rating Management's Effectiveness

  • Book Subtitle: With Case Studies in Telecommunications

  • Authors: Dimitris N. Chorafas

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005907

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3728-5Due: 24 September 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-00590-7Published: 23 September 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 287

  • Topics: Management

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