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December 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

Detroit's Pizza Mogul Looks Toward Barstow

Illegal Immigration and Crime

Stopping the Revolving Door: How to Hire and Retain Top

Talent

Charting Your Course to Success

Apartment Quarterly Update

Corporate Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Commentary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

November 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

Renegotiating With Integrity

The Big Boomer Exodus: How to Respond to the Loss of

Experienced Talent

Advertising: Keeping With the Times: The Ne''· High-Tech

Face of Advertising

Office Research Quarterly Update for Riverside-San

Bernardino Metro Area

Seniors.Housing Research Report:

People in Profile

Close-Up

Commentary

Investments & Finance

Executive Notes

The Lists:

Largest Credit Unions

Commercial Real Estate Brokers

Fastest Growing Companies

Commercial Building Developers

Mortgage Lenders

Managing

Calendar

Real Estate Notes

Advertising ....... .

Manager's BooJ...shelf

Restaurant Review

County of San Bernardino

County of Riverside

Executive Time Out.

October 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

Booming Job Market Predicted

Corporate Profile - ESRI

Expect Chaos

Planning on Tax Deductions for Charity? Rules Changed in

August 2006

Under the Influence: Five key Behaviors for Sale Breakthroughs

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Commentary. . .................... . 7

Corporate Profile ............................. 8

Investments & Finance ........................... 9

The Lists:

Long Distance Companies Serving the Inland Empire. 10

Interconnect/Telecommunications Firms ........... 25

Copiers, Fax and Business Equipment. . . . . . . . . . 27

Internet Service Providers Serving the Inland Empire .. 35

Editorial Schedule .............................. 15

Opinion ...... . 16

Managing ..................................... 17

Calendar ..................................... …

Measures Of Perceived Credibility Of Blogs: Construct Validation By Lisrel, Uday S. Tate, Elizabeth Alexander, Suneel K. Maheshwari

Management Faculty Research

Predictions are that blogs will be the promotional tool of the future, if not now. The question remains: how credible are blogs as a source of consumer information? How do consumers perceive the credibility of blogs from different sources when making purchase decisions and product evaluations? The primary objective of the present study is to assess validity and reliability of a set of Semantic Differential scales purported to measure perceived credibility of different types of blogs. Confirmatory factor analysis via LISREL8.5 package was used to obtain appropriate statistics for convergent validity, discriminant validity, and composite reliability. In general, the scales …

September 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

Skills Shortage Paying Off

Close-up: Ira Jackson.

A Short 0verview of Low Desert Communities

''You're Hired!" Eight Ways to Ensure You're Saying These

Two Critical Little Words to the Right People

The 10 Commandments of negotiations

Legislative Outlook

Close-up

Investments & Finance

The Lists:

Banks 111 the Inland Empire

Substance Abuse Programs

Golf Courses in the Inland Empire

Inland Empire's Largest Hotels

Computers technology

Editorial

Calendar

Managing

Real Estate notes

Sales

Manager\ Bookshelf

Restaurant Review

Count) of San Bernardino

Count) of Riverside

Executive Time Out

Outsourcing In Ireland: A Literature Review, Survey And Case Study Perspective, Edward Sweeney, Aoife O'Riordan

Conference papers

This paper investigates what is happening in Ireland at the moment regards outsourcing. It
looks into the literature review and the survey conducted. The research took place over a period
of two years, initially as a literature review, and then the survey was conducted through the
mediums of e-mail and the postal service. The survey analysis found that Ireland was the most
likely place for Irish companies to outsource to, and that nearly 40 percent of the companies that
have been surveyed have started on their latest outsourcing initiative since 2004. This indicates
that outsourcing is still important on the …

August 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

News from the Small Manufacturers Assoc. of CA.

Can We Call a Truce'? Ten Tips for Negotiating Workplace

The Good Old Stardust Will Resurrect as the Echelon Place

Selling Is Everyone's Business---Including Yours

Conquering Depression in the Workplace: How It Affects

Morale, Productivity and Effectiveness

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Real Estate notes. . . . . . . . . . . . ................... 7

Investments & Finance ............... .. ........... 9

The Lists:

Top Health Care Med1cal Clln1cs/

Groups m the Inland Emp1re. . . ... ..... . .. . . . .. I 0

Inland Empire\ …

July 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

Stem Cell Research

Close-Up

Corporate Profile

Investments & Finance

Commentary: Another Primary Bites the Dust

What is a Credit Union? Credit Union vs. Banks

Managing : Lead Your Team to Victory: The Do’s and Dont’s of Effective Group Influence

Real Estate Notes

Inland Empire People

Manager’s Bookshelf

Executive Notes

“Sorry, Whats Your Name Again?” six Steps to Relieve the Most Common Memory Worry

Coalition for California Jobs

Restaurant Review

Executive Time Out

Business Strategy Types And Innovative Practices, Tim Blumentritt, Wade M. Danis

Faculty and Research Publications

This study empirically examines how a firm's strategic orientation imparts its management of innovative activities. Drawing on the strategic management and innovation literatures, we develop and empirically test hypotheses arguing that a firm's strategic orientation will impact its perception of barriers to innovation, its sources of ideas for innovation, and its targets for innovation. The data, from over 244 firms, generally support the hypotheses. The study's findings suggest that a firm's strategic management and its management of innovation are highly integrated.

June 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

How to P.L.A.N. for Disaster

I Sing the Bluetooth Electric

Four Steps to Managing Anyone: Motivation and

Communication to Get the Job Done

Are You a Sales Advisor or an Order-Taker?

Use Your Influence: nine Tips to Combat Tough Boss

Syndrome

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Real Estate notes. . . . . . . . . . . . ................... 7

Investments & Finance ............... .. ........... 9

The Lists:

Top Health Care Med1cal Clln1cs/

Groups m the Inland Emp1re. . . ... ..... . .. . . . .. I 0

Inland Empire\ Largest Employers ......... . …

May 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

America's #I R\' Dealer

U.S. Senate to Vote on Most Important SmallBusiness

Bill in 25 Years

Influx of Relocating Companies Keeps Inland

Empire Office Market Tight

Congratulations! You're Fired!

Close-Up

Real Estate Notes

Corporate Profile

Investments and Finance

Commentary

Dental Plans

Law Firms

Employment Agencies

Managers BookSelf

Sales

Restaurant Review

Managing

County of San Bernardino

County of Riverside

Executive Notes

Executive Time Out

Employee Incentives To Make Firm Specific Investment: Implications For Resource-Based Theories Of Corporate Diversification, Heli Wang, Jay B. Barney

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We argue that the risk associated with the value of a firm's core resources has an impact on employee decisions to make firm-specific investments, independent of the threat of opportunism that might exist in a particular exchange. We further explore mechanisms firms may adopt to mitigate the employee incentive problem stemming from the risk associated with core resource value. These arguments shed new light on resource-based theories of corporate diversification.

March 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

Costco on Drugs Gets Good Grades

Close Up

Corporate Profile

Investment & Finance

Commentary

An Innkeeper and His City

Common Misconceptions Small Business Have About Providing Health Insurance

HMO’s and PPOs Serving the Inland Empire

Resource Directory

Financial

Executive Notes

Managing

Computers/Technology

Commerce Report

Residential Real Estate Brokers Serving the Inland Empire

Real Estate Notes

Manager’s Bookshelf

Restaurant Review

New Business Lists: County of San Bernardino

New Business Lists: County of Riverside

Inland Empire People

Tuskegee Airmen Archive

Executive Time Out

From The Management Of Distribution To The Management Of Supply Chains: The Evolution Of Scm, Edward Sweeney

Practitioner Journals

No abstract provided.

Crop Updates 2006 - Weeds, Alexandra Douglas, Thomas M. Wolf, Harm Van Rees, Bill Gordon, Peter Newman, Glenn Adam, Aik Lee, Siew Lee, Katherine Hollaway, Brad Rayner, John Peirce, Rick Llewellyn, Frank D'Emden, Michelle Owen, Stephen Powles, Michael Walsh, Emma Glasfurd, Kathryn Steadman, David Ferris, Bevan Addison, Aik Cheam, Dave Nicholson, Ruben Vargas, Shahab Pathan, Abul Hashem, Nerys Wilkins, Catherine Borger, Bob French, Kari-Lee Falconer, Martin Harries, Chris Matthews, Vikki Osten, Harnohinder Dhammu, David Nicholson, Richard Quinlan, Debbie Allen, Mark Seymour, Pam Burgess, Owen Coppen, Chris Roberts, Christiaan Valentine, A. K. Basandrai, W. J. Macleod, John Moore, Neil Rothnie, Russell Speed, John Simons, Ted Spadek, Daya Patabendige, Michael Renton, Sally Peltzer, Art Diggle

Crop Updates

This session covers thirty seven papers from different authors:

1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Alexandra Douglas, CONVENOR – WEEDS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

SPRAY TECHNOLOGY

2. Meeting the variable application goals with new application technology, Thomas M. Wolf, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon Research Centre

3. Spray nozzles for grass weed control, Harm van Rees, BCG (Birchip Cropping Group)

4. Boom sprayer setups – achieving coarse droplets with different operating parameters, Bill Gordon, Bill Gordon Consulting

5. Complying with product label requirements, Bill Gordon, Bill Gordon Consulting

6. IWM a proven performer over 5 years in 33 focus paddocks, Peter Newman and …

February 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

Do Come Here----But Come Here Legally

Housing will Be Beginning a Decline

Ten New Year's Shmooze-solutions for Business

Leaders

The Inland Empire---Hong Kong Connection

Sifting Through Your Own Credit dirt

Finding The Sweet Spot: A Two Industry Study Using The Zone Of Tolerance To Identify Determinant Service Quality Attributes, Srinivas Durvasula, Antonio Lobo, Steven Lysonski, Subhash Mehta

Marketing Faculty Research and Publications

This paper makes a detailed comparison of two major financial services in Singapore: life insurance and stockbrokerage. Relationships of perceptions and expectations of service quality, mean service adequacy (MSA) and mean service superiority (MSS) with service satisfaction and loyalty are examined. Results indicate that the reliability aspect of service quality is strongly related to satisfaction and loyalty in the stockbrokerage industry, while the assurance aspect of service quality enjoyed a similar status in the life insurance industry. Results also confirm that while MSA and MSS both drive satisfaction and loyalty, perceptions of actual service have the strongest correlations with those …

Henry Ford And The Cultural Mandate: Employees As Image Bearers And Other New Realities For Biblically Obedient Management Practices, Erik Hoekstra

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Presentation from the regional conference for Europe of the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education (IAPCHE) in August 2005, hosted by St. Andrew's Biblical Theological Institute in Moscow, Russia.

January 2006, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

No Recession Any Time Soon, But Troubles

Ahead, Nonetheless

The CEO ofCVB Explains It All

What are the biggest sales presentation mistakes professionals

make and how can you avoid them?

The Coachella Valley Housing Coalition (CVHC) has received

S 1.46 million

LearnWhat Credit Stalkers Know About You

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Investments & Finance ................ . ................. 9

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Marketing .............. . .... 12

Executive Time Out. ............ . .... 23

Managing .......... …

Overcoming Organisational Resistance To Using Wiki Technology For Knowledge Management, Charmaine C. Pfaff, Helen M. Hasan

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Although Wikis emerged in the public domain more than a decade ago, a number of business organisations are now discovering the advantages of using Wiki technology to manage knowledge. However, there are many who are not convinced about the merits of this relatively new Wiki technology and are not yet prepared to risk its adoption because it exhibits many ideas that have yet to be tested and many issues that have yet to be resolved. This paper studies the merits of using a Wiki for knowledge management. While some cases of corporate adoption of Wiki technology have been reported, cases …

Managing Human Capital In A Privately Owned Public Hotel Chain, Indra Abeysekera

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This study analyses human capital (HC) management practices in a small privately owned public hotel group, in the context of intellectual capital (IC). Previous studies have highlighted how firms measure and report HC, however few studies have examined the HC management practices of firms. This study analyses these practices using multiple data methods – namely, observation, interaction with staff, examination of internal financial and management reports, and semi-structured case study interviews - on a continuous basis over a one-year period. The results of this study indicate that, through HC management practices, this group of hotels engaged in value extraction rather …

Q-Methodology For The Active Process Of Knowledge Management, Joseph A. Meloche, Helen M. Hasan, Michelle Mok

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Knowledge Managament for the provision of Health Information Services is a developing field and one that is usefully informed by applied research. The current study is conducted with Intensive Care Unit (ICU) professionals to capture and distil their views in regard to a developing a Web-Based Information Service. This service is provided by a central coordination and monitoring unit for intensive care units across NSW, Australia. The study is part of a larger research initiative that is being done to advance the provision of health information in ICU's across the state. Given the complex and dynamic context of ICUs, there …

Implementation Of An Integrated Accounting And Cost Management System Using Sap System: A Field Study, Sudhir C. Lodh, Michael J. Gaffikin

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Not only are in-depth (theoretically informed) longitudinal (reflexive) field studies few and far between, it has been argued in those studies that little is known about the design and implementation of accounting and information systems that operate in today's world-class organizations. Using such an approach this study seeks to illustrate and analyse the implementation processes of an integrated accounting and cost management system using the SAP system at a major steel producer in Australia. It is demonstrated that the technical design of the system is only a part of the implementation process. Keeping 'actor-networks' in line and managing change including …

Towards An Organizational Model Of Occupational Health And Safety Management: A Review Of The Literature, Michael Zanko, Scott Burrows

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The enormous, tragic and largely unnoticed problem of workplace injuries and deaths continues to beset countries around the globe. Tripartite regulatory approaches to address the issues involved often place primary responsibility on employers’ management of health and safety (OHS) at the workplace. This paper seeks to ascertain how OHS management at the organizational level has been treated in the research literature.

A review of thirteen leading management journals from 1994 to 2005 was conspicuous by the absence of interest in OHS management as the subject or field of study. An examination of six leading HRM journals over the same timeframe …

Change Management, Patrick M. Dawson

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

A key aim of change management is to manage processes towards a future that, even when anticipated and planned for, can never be fully foreseen. It is a paradox that continues to generate considerable debate and conceptual and definitional confusion.

Conceptual Issues Of Global Counterfeiting On Products And Services, D. Bosworth, Deli Yang

School of Business Faculty Research

Counterfeiting is a global problem of enormous magnitude. Despite its obvious importance, relatively little attention has been paid to the management of counterfeiting. This paper considers the difficulties of measuring counterfeiting and provides evidence of the magnitude of the problem worldwide. The focus is on counterfeiting of privately produced goods and services, rather than the issue of the counterfeiting of currency per se, which is a somewhat different though related issue. A conceptual framework of the private and social costs and benefits of anti-counterfeiting measures is also provided. The framework highlights a number of key driving forces of counterfeiting, including …

Missing In Action: Research On Occupational Health And Safety Management In Organizations, Michael Zanko

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The enormous problem of workplace injuries and deaths continues to beset countries. Reflexive OHS regulation often places primary responsibility on employers’ management of OHS in organizations. This paper seeks to ascertain how OHS management at the organizational level has been treated in the research literature. A review of leading journals (13 in management, 6 in HRM) from 1994 to 2005 showed OHS management to be largely missing as the subject or field of study. Naturally, the OHS literature was more fruitful: 5 main categories were identified. However, there was little in the way nuanced explanation of OHS management at the …

A Methodology For Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into A Quality Management Teaching Environment, Xuesong Chi, Trevor A. Spedding

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Management flight simulators provide a “microworld” in which users control an organization in a realistic environment without the need to disturb the real system. This paper presents a web-based intelligent virtual learning environment to enhance the education of engineering management students in quality management and statistical process control techniques. The paper introduces the structure and methodology for building this online learning environment. The simulated environment is based on an innovative approach which incorporates a Fuzzy Adaptive Resonance Theory Neural Network to enable students to obtain the best response by automatically identifying out of control conditions.

The Importance Of Vertical And Shared Leadership Within New Venture Top Management Teams: Implications For The Performance Of Startups, Michael D. Ensley, Keith M. Hmieleski, Craig L. Pearce

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

The current study investigated the relative influence of vertical versus shared leadership within new venture top management teams on the performance of startups using two different samples. Vertical leadership stems from an appointed or formal leader of a team (e.g., the CEO), whereas shared leadership is a form of distributed leadership stemming from within a team. Transformational, transactional, empowering, and directive dimensions of both vertical and shared leadership were examined. New venture performance was considered in terms of revenue growth and employee growth. The first sample was comprised of 66 top management teams of firms drawn from Inc. Magazine’s …