Successful Partnerships: A Matter Of Experience?,
2010
Universitas Indonesia
Successful Partnerships: A Matter Of Experience?, Frits D. J. Grotenhuis
The South East Asian Journal of Management
Statistics indicate that most mergers and acquisitions are not very successful. At the same time, similar reasons for success and failure have been reported over the past decades by different scholars. Frequent mentioned reasons are related to finansial or legal issues during the pre-merger phase and cultural or integration issues during the post-merger phase. This far, hardly any study examined the learning effect of previous mergers and acquisitions experiences. This paper focuses on the post-merger integration phase of mergers and acquisitions, and the learning elements. First results indicate that managers can learn from previous experience and thus increase changes for …
Is Bangladeshi Rmg Sector Fit In The Global Apparel Business? Analyses The Supply Chain Management,
2010
Department of Marketing, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Is Bangladeshi Rmg Sector Fit In The Global Apparel Business? Analyses The Supply Chain Management, Nuruzzaman Nuruzzaman, Ahasanul Haque, Rafiq Azad
The South East Asian Journal of Management
In recent years, supply chain management (SCM) has been developed as essential management philosopy and practice for all business operations. As with other business management principles, SCM also applies to the textile and apparel industries. All the parties or members should cooperate with its downstream customers and upstream suppliers to achieve supply chain goal. This paper was designed as an exploratory study to investigate SCM practice and to create competitive advantages in textille and garments (apparel) industries through efficient supply chain management from the perspective of business process. Current conditions of SCM practice in textille and garments industries in Bangladesh …
Managing Growth: Best Practices Of Family-Owned Businesses,
2010
Bryant University
Managing Growth: Best Practices Of Family-Owned Businesses, Justin M. Andrews
Honors Projects in Management
Family-owned businesses represent the majority of business in the United States. As consumers and employees, we are compelled to their sense of trustworthiness that all too often disappears in the business world. Our economy depends on the success of family-owned businesses, but only one third of these organizations successfully transition to the second generation and only one in ten survive to the third generation. While a series of best practices attempt to prescribe solutions their challenges, these practices fail to account for the various types of family-owned businesses. More specifically, many types of family-owned businesses exist as evident by specific …
A Study On Workforce Integration In An International Acquisition,
2010
Bryant University
A Study On Workforce Integration In An International Acquisition, Christopher Lussier
Honors Projects in Management
International acquisitions are extremely difficult to maneuver and success is far from guaranteed. Navigating through financial statements is one thing, but trying to link together two or more geographically and culturally diverse workforces is an entirely another thing. This study analyzes fourteen employee interviews from four different companies involved in international acquisitions within the last ten years. It develops a comprehensive comparison of companies looking to partially integrate through hands-off management or fully integrate through synergistic collaboration of workforces. The analysis looks at the actions companies take once the decision is made to grow internationally through mergers and acquisitions in …
How To Improve Project Management For Agile Federation Development,
2010
Old Dominion University
How To Improve Project Management For Agile Federation Development, Priyanka Kotikalpudi
Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Developing a simulation federation out of a variety of heterogeneous simulation solutions is a complex task requiring very effective project management support in order to accomplish the common objectives and goals of this M&S federation. This thesis study conducts a detailed survey of available literature to identify the project management methods that can be extended to be applied to manage the development of simulation systems. The literature review led to the following two main results: (a) in general, there is insufficient literature dealing with M&S challenges for project management, (b) in particular, the two challenges of often changing requirements leading …
Including The Customer In Efficiency Analysis:Evidence Of A Hybrid Relational-Transactional Approach,
2010
Technological University Dublin
Including The Customer In Efficiency Analysis:Evidence Of A Hybrid Relational-Transactional Approach, Joseph Coughlan, Estelle Shale, Robert Dyson
Articles
Switching It Outsourcing Suppliers: Enhancing Transition Readiness,
2010
Singapore Management University
Switching It Outsourcing Suppliers: Enhancing Transition Readiness, Siew Kien Sia, Wee-Kiat Lim, Kanapaty Pelly Periasamy
CCX Research
As IT outsourcing continues to gather momentum and mature, the decision to change suppliers at the end of a contract, or even earlier, has become an inevitable reality for many. This article sheds light on the management challenges associated with transitioning from one outsourcing supplier to another. Based on the “painful” experience of a large public-sector organization that chose not to renew its contract with a supplier that had operated its online portal and call center for five years, we provide insights into what makes a client organization “transition-ready.” We then describe the actions an organization can take before, during, …
A Psychological Perspective On Cultural Difference: Epistemological Heterogeneity And Individual Heterogeneity Across Cultures,
2010
Kennesaw State University
A Psychological Perspective On Cultural Difference: Epistemological Heterogeneity And Individual Heterogeneity Across Cultures, Kamal Fatehi, Uday S. Tate
Faculty Articles
Most cross-cultural studies of management have been sociological type. Conventional view of cultures and sociological perspective has resulted in the assumption that within each culture members are homogeneous in their psychological make-up, logic, and perspective. Although researchers have reminded us that people vary on pivotal psychological dimensions, both on a between-country and within-country basis, these reminders were not heeded. Maruyama’s theories and research on epistemological heterogeneity, and individual heterogeneity across cultures, or as it is called, mindscape, were the exception. This paper elaborates on epistemological heterogeneity and individual heterogeneity across cultures. It suggests that researchers in international management could use …
Index-Exciting Caviar: A New Empirical Time-Varying Risk Model,
2010
Singapore Management University
Index-Exciting Caviar: A New Empirical Time-Varying Risk Model, Dashan Huang, Baimin Yu, Zudi Lu, Sergio Focardi, Frank Fabozzi, Masao Fukushima
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Instead of assuming the distribution of return series, Engle and Manganelli (2004) propose a new Value-at-Risk (VaR) modeling approach, Conditional Autoregressive Value-at-Risk (CAViaR), to directly compute the quantile of an individual asset's returns which performs better in many cases than those that invert a return distribution. In this paper we explore more flexible CAViaR models that allow VaR prediction to depend upon a richer information set involving returns on an index. Specifically, we formulate a time-varying CAViaR model whose parameters vary according to the evolution of the index. The empirical evidence reported in this paper suggests that our time-varying CAViaR …
Pension Plan Funding Effect On Shareholder Equity,
2010
Lubin School of Business, Pace University
Pension Plan Funding Effect On Shareholder Equity, Larisa Parchomovsky
Honors College Theses
A pension plan often tends to be one of the company’s biggest liabilities. Before 2008, pension plans were not directly included in the financial statements, but could only be found in the footnote disclosures. Such accounting convention essentially made pensions a type of off-balance sheet financing resulting in a misrepresentation of valuation ratios and earnings due to the exclusion of such a significant liability. The objective of this research is to determine whether the funded status of a pension plan will significantly affect a company’s shareholder equity. As part of this research, I analyzed 4 years (2001-2004) of financial statements …
An Investigation Of Value Updating Bidders In Simultaneous Online Art Auctions,
2010
Texas Tech University
An Investigation Of Value Updating Bidders In Simultaneous Online Art Auctions, Mayukh Dass, Lynne Seymour, Srinivas K. Reddy
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Simultaneous online auctions, in which the auction of all items being sold starts at the same time and ends at the same time, are becoming popular especially in selling items such as collectables and art pieces. In this paper, we analyze the characteristics of bidders (Reactors) in simultaneous auctions who update their pre-auction value of an item in the presence of influencing bidders (Influencers). We represent an auction as a network of bidders where the nodes represent the bidders participating in the auction and the ties between them represent an Influencer?Reactor relationship. We further develop a random effects bilinear model …
Trusts Versus Corporations: An Empirical Analysis Of Competing Organizational Forms,
2010
Syracuse University
Trusts Versus Corporations: An Empirical Analysis Of Competing Organizational Forms, A. Joseph Warburton
College of Law - Faculty Scholarship
This paper studies the effects of organizational form on managerial behavior and firm performance, from an empirical perspective. Managers of trusts are subject to stricter fiduciary responsibilities than managers of corporations. This paper examines the ramifications empirically, by exploiting data generated by a change in British regulations in the 1990s that allowed mutual funds to organize as either a trust or a corporation. I find evidence that trust law is effective in curtailing opportunistic behavior, as trust managers charge significantly lower fees than their observationally equivalent corporate counterparts. Trust managers also incur lower risk. However, evidence suggests that trust managers …
Cross-Cultural Customer Satisfaction Of High Technology Companies In China, India, And Japan,
2010
Pepperdine University
Cross-Cultural Customer Satisfaction Of High Technology Companies In China, India, And Japan, William H. Bleuel, Darrol J. Stanley
GSBM Faculty Scholarship
Customer satisfaction has become a very important aspect of business management in the high technology market. Companies that provide products and services world-wide often are concerned that customer satisfaction may be impacted by cultural differences. This study examines measures of customer satisfaction in China, India and Japan to determine whether or not there is a difference in satisfaction scores for field service, depot repair and help desk. The statistical results at a 5% confidence level indicate there is a difference in customer perception in all service support areas. The results clearly indicate that companies need to understand these differences in …
Spreadsheets Grow Up: Three Spreadsheet Engineering Methodologies For Large Financial Planning Models,
2010
University of San Francisco
Spreadsheets Grow Up: Three Spreadsheet Engineering Methodologies For Large Financial Planning Models, Thomas A. Grossman Jr., O Ozluk
Business Analytics and Information Systems
Many large financial planning models are written in a spreadsheet programming language (usually Microsoft Excel) and deployed as a spreadsheet application. Three groups, FAST Alliance, Operis Group, and BPM Analytics (under the name “Spreadsheet Standards Review Board”) have independently promulgated standardized processes for efficiently building such models. These spreadsheet engineering methodologies provide detailed guidance on design, construction process, and quality control. We summarize and compare these methodologies. They share many design practices, and standardized, mechanistic procedures to construct spreadsheets. We learned that a written book or standards document is by itself insufficient to understand a methodology. These methodologies represent a …
Impact Of Positive Psychological Capital On Employee Well-Being Over Time,
2010
Central Washington University
Impact Of Positive Psychological Capital On Employee Well-Being Over Time, James B. Avey, Fred Luthans, Ronda M. Smith, Noel F. Palmer
Department of Management: Faculty Publications
The recently recognized core construct of psychological capital or PsyCap (consisting of the positive psychological resources of efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience) has been demonstrated to be related to various employee attitudinal, behavioral, and performance outcomes. However, to date, the impact of this positive core construct over time and on important employee well-being outcomes has not been tested. This study meets this need by analyzing the relationship between a broad cross-section of employees’ (N = 280) level of PsyCap and two measures of psychological well-being over time. The results indicated that employees’ PsyCap was related to both measures of well-being …
Everyday Sensegiving: A Closer Look At Successful Plant Managers,
2010
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Everyday Sensegiving: A Closer Look At Successful Plant Managers, Anne D. Smith, Donde Ashmos Plowman, Dennis Duchon
Department of Management: Faculty Publications
The authors conducted in-depth interviews and on-site visits with successful plant managers to understand similarities in their management approaches. Across 11 different plants, representing nine different industries, the authors found each plant manager actively engaged in shaping how employees viewed the organization and its values through what the authors call “everyday sensegiving.” From themes inductively identified from the interviews and on-site visits, four central values—”Here, we value people, we value openness, we value being positive, and we value being part of a larger community”— were identified. In this article, the authors link everyday sensegiving of these middle managers and extend …
Corporate Social Responsibility In Emerging Markets - The Importance Of The Governance Environment,
2010
Rollins College
Corporate Social Responsibility In Emerging Markets - The Importance Of The Governance Environment, Marc Fetscherin, Shaomin Li, Ilan Alon, Christoph Lattemann, Kuang Yeh
Faculty Publications
• This study examines how country-level, industry-level, and firm-level factors affect the extent of corporate communication about CSR in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). In particular, using the data of 105 largest MNCs from BRIC, we investigate the CSR motives, processes, and stakeholder issues discussed in corporate communications.
• On the country level, we use a newly developed framework of the governance environment which differentiates between rule-based and relation-based governance. Our study reveals that the governance environment of a country is the most important driving force for the communication intensity about CSR.
• Our results show that firms communicating …
How Emerging Market Firms Compete In Global Markets,
2010
Kennesaw State University
How Emerging Market Firms Compete In Global Markets, Rajaram Veliyath, Lance Brouthers
Faculty Articles
We posit that contexts in emerging markets are different from developed country contexts. These contextual differences necessitate the development and deployment of unique capabilities and strategies on the parts of companies operating there. While all emerging market countries are not uniform across all of the characteristics described below, there is a great deal of commonality on these conditions within the group of emerging market countries, by virtue of their similar stages of development. Thus, companies that develop their skill sets and products/services in one emerging market are likely to more easily be able to extend them to others. Conversely, there …
The Application Of Little's Law To Enrollment Management: Improving Student Persistence In Part-Time Degree Programs,
2010
University of Richmond
The Application Of Little's Law To Enrollment Management: Improving Student Persistence In Part-Time Degree Programs, Ellen M. Walk, Lewis A. Litteral
Management Faculty Publications
Little’s Law is applied to enrollment management in part-time degree programs. Using institutional data by program, on number of graduates per year, as well as number of credits taken and number of active students per semester, the calculated average time to graduation is compared to the average flow time predicted by Little’s Law. Despite significant variability among students who enter with varying transfer credits and take varying credits per semester, Little’s Law provides a simple model for measuring program growth trends, student productivity, and persistence to graduation. Implications for marketing, admissions, advising, course scheduling, and curriculum design are discussed.
An Evaluation Of Risk Management Courses Offered In Engineering Management Programs,
2010
Old Dominion University
An Evaluation Of Risk Management Courses Offered In Engineering Management Programs, S. Jimmy Gandhi, C. Ariel Pinto
Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications
For this paper, the authors have surveyed a total of 22 engineering management (EM) programs in the United States (both accredited and non-accredited). The purpose of this study was to analyze the offering of risk management courses as part of the engineering management curriculum. The findings showed that the majority of the programs did not offer a single dedicated course on risk management and merely covered the topic as part of other courses such as project management. The authors have made recommendations that risk management should be included as a required part of the EM curriculum due to the higher …
