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Examining Collegiality And Social Justice In Academia And The Private Sector: An Exploratory Symlog Analysis, D. L. Ford, George L. Whaley
Examining Collegiality And Social Justice In Academia And The Private Sector: An Exploratory Symlog Analysis, D. L. Ford, George L. Whaley
Faculty Publications, School of Management
This research compares the perceptions of the private sector, high-technology employees to the perceptions of university faculty members regarding organizational culture, social justice and collegiality concepts. The SYMLOG assessment technique was used to record the perceptions of respondents to four different concepts of organizational culture, two different aspects of social justice and two measures of collegiality. Comparative findings of gender differences across the eight concepts raise key organizational culture, legal, measurement, governance, and social policy issues for academia and high tech organizations. The development of a conceptual framework to guide future research and a blueprint to discuss desired organizational change …
Pricing In Online Auction Procurement: A Review Of Empirical Methods And Current Understandings, Ming Zhou, William Y. Jiang, M. Cao
Pricing In Online Auction Procurement: A Review Of Empirical Methods And Current Understandings, Ming Zhou, William Y. Jiang, M. Cao
Faculty Publications, School of Management
The online auction has become an important channel for procurement and sourcing management. As firms often expect lower procurement prices through online auctions, how the prices are determined in online auctions should be of major interest to procurement managers and supply chain researchers. Despite the abundant empirical studies on online auction prices, an aggregated view is still absent. This study fills this gap with a review of extant studies. More specifically, this study provides summaries of all major theories behind online auction pricing, defines and analyzes often encountered econometric issues, and discusses how the treatments of these issues have been …
From Private Regulation To Public Policy: The Case Of Corporate Non-Financial Reporting, Matthew Maguire
From Private Regulation To Public Policy: The Case Of Corporate Non-Financial Reporting, Matthew Maguire
Faculty Publications, School of Management
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Alignment Of Strategy With Structure Using Control Systems, Syeda Noorein Inamdar
Alignment Of Strategy With Structure Using Control Systems, Syeda Noorein Inamdar
Faculty Publications, School of Management
Considerable experimentation in organizational form has focused executive attention on the design and use of management control systems (MCS) to align environmental context and corporate strategy with a variety of organizational structures. The paper explores how two multibusiness health care firms with a similar corporate strategy–but with different structures, centralized versus decentralized–design and use MCS. Strategy based contingency model is applied to examine the interrelationships among five constructs–environment, corporate strategy, organizational structure, MCS and performance. Results demonstrate the design and use of MCS are contingent on the extent of centralization between the corporate office and business units. In the decentralized …