development, I am very pleased to say that we are blessed with the publication of Designing Workplace Mentoring Programs: An Evidence- Based Approach by Allen, Finkelstein, and Poteet. These three authors— accomplished professors and practitioners in the field of leadership development—provide us with a solid and pragmatic approach to creating a fully integrated organization-wide mentoring process. The process they describe addresses the structure of such a program, the recruitment and training of both prot´eg´es
Patagonia “Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.” Heidi Kerwin & Patricia Bergstrom Strategic Management Dr. Dawn Keig December 2,2014 Executive Summary Company Introduction: Patagonia is a top-line, outdoor, retail clothing company. Based out of California, and founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973. Their beginnings supported rock and alpine clothing and have expanded to skiing, surfing, climbing and other sports
Table of Contents List of Figures ii List of Tables ii ACRONYMS iii 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Research problem 2 1.3 Problem owner 2 1.4 Justification of the study 2 1.5 Research objectives 2 1.6 Research questions 2 1.7 Conceptual framework 3 1.8 Definition of concepts 4 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.1 Value chains concepts and chain upgrading 6 2.1.1 Value Chain Concepts 6 2.1.2 Challenges in Sunflower Value Chain in Tanzania 7 2.1.3 Chain Upgrading 8 2.2 Agricultural marketing 9 2.3 Major