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Small Business Owners' Search For Profitability Under The Affordable Care Act, Alton Simpson
Small Business Owners' Search For Profitability Under The Affordable Care Act, Alton Simpson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Health care costs for small businesses have been rising annually for the past few decades. Congress voted to pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to lower the cost of health care in 2010. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore small business owners' experiences in implementing ACA requirements and how the ACA affects small businesses as their owners work to make these organizations profitable. Complex adaptive systems theory formed the conceptual framework for this study Data were gathered during face-to-face and telephone interviews with a sample of 20 small business owners in the Philadelphia region. The research questions …
Effective Strategies For Managing The Outsourcing Of Information Technology, Marsha N. Hopwood
Effective Strategies For Managing The Outsourcing Of Information Technology, Marsha N. Hopwood
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
More than half of information technology (IT) outsourced projects fail, primarily due to a lack of effective management practices surrounding the outsourcing end-to-end process. Ineffective management of the IT outsourcing (ITO) process affects organizations in the form of higher than expected project costs, including greater vendor switching or reintegration costs, poor quality, and loss of profits. These effects indicate that some business leaders lack the strategies to effectively manage the ITO process. The purpose of this single-case study was to apply the transaction cost economics (TCE) theory to explore strategies 5 business professionals use to manage an ITO project in …