Starting as a unit in the Department of Finance in 1977, it has grown
with the nation, changing and adapting its mandate to meet national
needs. Today the Institute offers a range of training opportunities,
consultancy and research services aimed at building personal,
professional and managerial capacity of Seychellois to enable them to
lead and participate positively in the country’s future thrusts.
Idyllically poised on the hills of Majoie its environment provides an
atmosphere conducive to learning. The Institute has a core of qualified
and practice-oriented facilitators. It draws experiences from both the
public and private sectors in Seychelles and internationally thus
enabling its programmes to be flavoured with special blends of local
and global nature.
EDITOR
Eugene Madejski, SIM Seychelles Institute of Management
EDITORIAL BOARD
Bernard Monnaie SIM; Gerard Albert SIM; Margaret Pillay ALDEC; Paul Kangethe SIM.
We welcome you to Volume One published July 2009, of the ‘Journal of Small Islands Management' or ‘JoSIM'.
Our aim is to focus on the particular management challenges as faced by managers in small islands settings. Shared examples of the management challenges posed by operating in small and remote markets, with small populations, and with what has been termed ‘a lack of critical mass'.
In this, the first volume of JoSIM, you will find an eclectic selection of Papers which we hope will serve to provide the reader with a better understanding of some of these challenges. From issues such as decentralisation away from the capital of education programmes to the wider island population, through managing supply chains volatility in remote small islands locations, to the impact of ICT and change management issues in small islands operations.
In addition, there is a Paper discussing the issue of: how to start the research writing process, which we hope will encourage those who are more reticent to come forward.
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