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Shamsud D. Chowdhury
Researcher at Dalhousie University
Publications - 24
Citations - 796
Shamsud D. Chowdhury is an academic researcher from Dalhousie University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mirroring & Multinational corporation. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 23 publications receiving 745 citations. Previous affiliations of Shamsud D. Chowdhury include Athabasca University.
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Making Room for the Call Center
Marco Adria,Shamsud D. Chowdhury +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that skills for employees in call centers can and should be upgraded, and practical advice for enhancing an organization's culture even as employees begin to spend less time in face-to-face interactions is offered.
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Riding the Wrong Wave: Organizational Failure as a Failed Turnaround
TL;DR: In this article, a four-stage model is proposed to describe the evolution of a failing organization through a sequence of four stages before finally landing in the morass of death, and the model explains how the elements germane to each stage facilitate the progression of an organization from crippling deterioration in performance to eventual death or to re-stabilizing survival.
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Turnaround in small firms: An assessment of efficiency strategies
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the content and process of turnaround strategies in smaller manufacturing firms is presented, and successful short-term strategies for performance turnaround are identified through logistic regression, profile analysis, and univariate t-tests.
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Turnarounds: A Stage Theory Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a composite four-stage model is proposed to describe the dynamics of turnaround and provides a basis for the development of a theory on which to draw further, by categorizing the elements of turnaround as three critical requirements: incidents, events, and concepts.
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Crisis, Decline, and Turnaround: a Test of Competing Hypotheses for Short-Term PerformanceImprovement in Small Firms
TL;DR: Cameron and Zammuto as mentioned in this paper examined two aspects of small firm decline and turnaround: the first tests competing theories as to whether a gradual decline or a crisis is more likely to precede successful turnaround, and the second tests the relationships of external financial support with rate of decline and with turnaround success.