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Business management best practices including corporate strategy development, financial management, human resource management, information management, resource planning, marketing and sales.
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PEST analysis
Business administration; Business management
A review of a company’s business environment in terms of four major factors: (1) Political, (2) Economic, (3) Social and (4) Technological.
Ivan Pavlov
Business administration; Business management
A Russian physiologist (1849–1936) who won the Nobel Prize in 1904 for his work on the digestive system of dogs. In the course of his research he chanced upon a phenomenon he ...
representative sample
Business administration; Business management
A sample that is intended to be completely representative of the population from which it is drawn.
interpretivists
Business administration; Business management
A school of consumer research that regards the act of buying as being only a small part (however important) of a consumer’s activities. It holds that buying behavior has to be ...
behaviorism
Business administration; Business management
A school of psychology founded by an American psychologist, J.B. Watson, in 1913. Watson believed that the work of Pavlov on conditioning represented the future of psychology, ...
humanistic psychology
Business administration; Business management
A school of psychology which emphasizes the positive qualities that differentiate human beings most from other animals, particularly creativity, play and psychological growth in ...
Adam Smith
Business administration; Business management
A Scottish economist and philosopher (1723–90) who based his doctrines of the free market on a rational-economic view of human nature. He argued that, as individual selfinterest ...
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