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Matrix Management And Structure
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Matrix management is a technique of managing an organization (or, more commonly, part of an organization) through a series of dual-reporting relationships instead of a more traditional linear...
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The Impact of High Performance Work on Industry-Level Outcomes
April 10, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Organizations today face an increasingly competitive and rapidly changing environment. A variety of factors including globalization, technological breakthroughs, rapid innovation, and deregulation...
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The Role of Equity in Employment Noncompetition Cases
April 10, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper will explain the evolution of restrictive covenants in the employment setting and then analyze an overlooked aspect of covenant-not-to-compete enforceability - the role of equitable...
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Does Retirement Education Teach People to Save Pension Distributions?
April 10, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper is the first to examine the relationship between retirement education - specifically, meetings sponsored by employers or by public and private institutions- and the saving of lump sum...
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Pension Sponsorship and Participation: Trends and Policy Issues
April 10, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Employment sector and employer size account for substantial variation in workers' participation in employer-sponsored retirement plans. Other things being equal, employees in the public...
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Argentina's Pension System
April 29, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The economic crisis in Argentina is affecting the country's pension system. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) withheld a US$1.3 billion loan in December 2001 because it was dissatisfied with...
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Appendix D: Computing a Retires-Worker Benefit
April 29, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides instructions and a worksheet for computing a retired-worker benefit. The worksheet can be used for persons born in 1928 through 1941-that is, those who attained age 62 in 2003...
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Individual Accounts in Other Countries
April 29, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The International Social Security Association classifies an individual account as "An arrangement in which capital belonging to an individual person accumulated from mandatory or voluntary...
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Gaining Competitive Advantage in e-Tailing Through Marketing Management and Value-Added Uses of Technology
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Experts cite the lack of a sound business plan and a diminished regard for basic marketing and management practices as major reasons for the failure rate of Web-based retailers. The dot-com...
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Finding Competitive Advantage in Self-Managed Work Teams
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
To build a competitive advantage, a firm must provide buyers with superior value. While companies can secure competitive advantages through investment in capital or technology, such avenues...
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Enterprising Ways to Create Competitive Advantage
February 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Today's leading companies deploy enterprise systems in all areas of operations, and a spectrum of these systems are at work at companies every day. Although each enterprise system has a unique...
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Sustaining Competitive Advantage in a High-Technology Environment: A Strategic Marketing Perspective
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The fortunes of high-technology firms depend on investments in intangible capital, which is comprised of intellectual capital as well as marketing capital. While the importance of intellectual...
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Exploiting SCM as Source of Competitive Advantage: The Importance of Cooperative Goals Revisited
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The majority of studies on Supply Chain Management (SCM) emphasize the importance of cooperative relationships for improving the integration of business processes into a supply chain. It seems...
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Does Porter's Diamond Hold in the Global Automotive Industry?
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Michael Porter's Theory of the Competitive Advantage of Nations is commonly referred to as Porter's Diamond, as it comprises 4 key elements that lead to national competitiveness. This paper...
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How Can a Firm Convert Its Global Presence to Global Competitive Advantage to Gain Certain Benefits?
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
To convert global presence into a global competitive advantage, companies must exploit five value creation opportunities: adapting to local scale, exploiting economies of global scope, tapping the...
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The Essence of Strategic Leadership: Managing Human and Social Capital
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
A new type of strategic leadership is required to help firms successfully navigate the dynamic and uncertain environment in which they compete today. The strategic leadership needed in 21st...
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An Exploration of the Links Between Just-in-Time Manufacturing and Simultaneous New Product Development
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Innovation and speedy new product development is crucial for companies to gain competitive advantage in a global market. The main focus of this paper is to demonstrate that the principles of...
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The Brand Capability Value of Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC)
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
It is now widely accepted that intangible assets provide the most sustainable source of competitive advantage. Indeed, brand equity often accounts for a major portion of shareholder value....
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Using an Online Commercial Database as a Source of Competitive Advantage in Developing Marketing Strategies and Tactics
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of an online database in providing the foundation for developing a successful competitive strategy. In particular, this paper focuses on the...
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The Role of Transformational and Transactional Leadership in Creating, Sharing and Exploiting Organizational Knowledge
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Strategy scholars have argued that managing knowledge effectively can provide firms with sustainable competitive advantages. Leaders are central to the process of managing knowledge effectively....
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Integrating Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management Activities to Gain Wealth: CEOs' Perspectives
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The study presented in this paper explored means and ways that can help CEOs achieve wealth for their firms in the era of globalization. Using a sample of CEOs of MNCs, the findings of this study...
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Managing Resources: Linking Unique Resources, Management, and Wealth Creation in Family Firms
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The appropriate resources are necessary but insufficient to achieve a competitive advantage. Resources must also be managed effectively. Herein, one develops a resource management process model...
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Strategic Options for Managing Intellectual Asset Flows in the Information Sector
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper contributes to the growing body of management research on intellectual assets in several ways. The paper reviews and then demonstrates the applicability of a theoretical framework for...
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Integrating Inter- and Extra-Enterprise Applications Using Web Services
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The fast-paced advancement of information technology is rapidly changing the business world. Fulfilling on-demand service requests is vital to today's business survival. Enterprises must...
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Brainstorming to Identify and Manage Tax Risks
March 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Risk management is critical for CPA firms and their clients today, due to an increased focus on corporate governance, greater Federal and state regulation and intensive scrutiny by the media and...
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Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) and Brand Identity as Critical Components of Brand Equity Strategy
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
For practitioners, Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) has become widely accepted, has pervaded various levels within the firm, and has become an integral part of brand strategy that requires...
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American and Armenian CEOs' Perception of the Role of Strategic Leadership in Achieving and Maintaining Global Competitiveness
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The study presented in this paper investigates the perceptions of American and Armenian CEOs toward the role of a suggested strategic leadership model developed by Ireland and Hitt in achieving...
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An Overview of Film Production Incentives
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In 1998, Canada began providing tax incentives for filmmakers and quickly turned their initiative into a multi-billion-dollar movie production industry - thus hundreds of millions of dollars from...
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Task and Relationship-Oriented Trust in Leaders
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The study presented in this paper examines the relative influence of competence, consistency and motivational intention upon the defined task and relationship dimensions of trust in leaders. A...
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Otential Barriers to Organizations That Put Their Human Resource People First: Exploratory Study
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The study presented in this paper explores certain management practices in which an organization treats its human resources as the most important asset. Despite evidence of a direct relationship...
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A Holistic Approach to New Product Development: New Insights
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
A participative approach to New Product Development (NPD) has been advocated in the literature since the mid-1980s. Nonetheless, the integration of NPD remains one of the top challenges facing...
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Toward a Model of Effective Knowledge Management and Directions for Future Research: Culture, Leadership, and CKOs
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Organizational culture, organizational leadership, and Chief Knowledge Officers (CKOs) each play important roles in overcoming human barriers associated with knowledge creation, transfer and...
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Engaging Tensions of Knowledge Management Control
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Any proficient activity calls for balance, which normally entails striking the right median between extremes. Management needs to strike the right balance when it comes to deciding how best to...
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The Effects of Knowledge Management on Team Members' Ratings of Project Success and Impact
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Many organizations are trying to improve the generation and utilization of knowledge. The activities associated with these efforts are identified as organizational Knowledge Management (KM). While...
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Utah Health Sciences Center Uses Knowledge Management Software to Improve Customer Service as Demand Increases
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
University Health Care is part of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, which includes colleges of medicine, nursing, health and pharmacy, and supports administration, business and...
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Computational Models as a Knowledge Management Tool
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Effective management of knowledge is essential for a CPA firm to remain competitive. Use of computational models of judgment processes and outcomes causes knowledge to be available for use and...
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Putting Knowledge Management to Work for Real Estate Organizations
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
"Knowledge Management" has become an increasingly popular corporate term over the last decade. But what does it mean to one and one's real estate organization? Generally, knowledge management can...
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Knowledge-Sharing in Value-Chain Networks: Certifying Collaborators for Effective Protection Processes
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Three major trends have come together at the start of the new millennium, raising the stakes for firms seeking to compete in the new economy. Initially, Knowledge Management (KM, also referred to...
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A Verification-Based Conflict Resolution Strategy for Knowledge Management Systems
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Knowledge Management Systems may store knowledge in many diverse forms such as people, intellectual assets, documents, databases, directories, and expert systems. When knowledge is integrated from...
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Team Knowledge Structures: Matching Task to Information Environment
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The knowledge possessed by an organization and its members can be classified as explicit or tacit. Explicit knowledge can be codified and communicated without much difficulty. Tacit knowledge -...
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Matrix Management And Structure
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Matrix management is a technique of managing an organization (or, more commonly, part of an organization) through a series of dual-reporting relationships instead of a more traditional linear...
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Fuel Economy
December 1, 2005, 12:00am PST
The use of telecommuting has not gained ground for the past three years, but recent rapid increases in fuel costs may cause employers to rethink their policies on letting employees reduce their...
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Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
February 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Differences in utilization of health care services across the country have been well documented, but less has been reported on geographic variation in price. As health care spending is the product...
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'Explosion' of HSAs Foreseen in 2006
July 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The number of employers offering Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) is expected to more than quadruple in 2006, says a Mellon Human Resources & Investor Solutions (HR & IS) survey. The "Health...
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Where Did the Productivity Growth Go?
July 6, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Ian Dew-Becker and Robert Gordon have put together a very nice paper that covers some important ground. Although in this paper, the author will highlight some quibbles and questions, his overall...
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Employers Warm Up to Online Education
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Online education is entering the mainstream, according to some higher education analysts, and its growing popularity with employers is part of the reason. Increasing the knowledge of their...
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Accounting, Coercion and Social Control During Apprenticeship
December 1, 2005, 12:00am PST
The paper describes the nature and role of accounting during apprenticeship - the transition period from slavery to waged labor in the British West Indies. Planters, colonial legislators, and...
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Alternative Work Schedules: Employers Benefit When Employees Have Choices
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Employers are increasingly permitting employees to customize their work arrangements through alternative work schedules. Employees often seek flexibility to allow more time to care for children or...
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Entry-Level Gulf Coast Workers Are Elusive
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Drive through any major intersection in the New Orleans area and one will see a sea of "Now Hiring" signs. There are literally thousands of them all over the city. Burger King has been offering a...
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How Are Earnings Managed?: Examples From Auditors
June 19, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper reports descriptive evidence about how managers attempt to manage earnings, based on a sample of 515 earnings-management attempts obtained from a survey of 253 experienced auditors (and...
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CEOs'/CFOs' Swearing by the Numbers: Does It Impact Share Price of the Firm?
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the impact on share prices of firms who's CEOs and CFOs certify their financial statements under oath, pursuant to the administrative order issued by the SEC on June 27, 2002....
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Managing in the New Millennium: Ten Tips to Better Using Your 1440 Minutes
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Too often people say that if they just had more time, they could be more productive. They may see many other people who are indeed more productive. And yet they have the same 24 hours and the same...
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Strategic Alliances and the Management of Intellectual Properties: The Art of the Contract
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks often compose as much as 85% of a corporation's economic value. Because product lifecycles have shortened as technology advances ever more...
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CRM in Sales-Intensive Organizations: A Review and Future Directions
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
According to one study, implementing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy currently ranks among the top five corporate objectives in over 60 percent of enterprises. With the advent of...
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Employee Turnover and Tacit Knowledge Diffusion: A Network Perspective
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Organizational knowledge and employee turnover have been studied extensively. This paper is divided into three major sections. First, the paper introduces the general theoretical background,...
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An Agent-Based Knowledge Management Framework for the e-Commerce Environment
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Knowledge Management (KM) is emerging as one of the management tools to gain competitive advantage and e-businesses are beginning to invest in KM initiatives. Though several organizations have...
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Inter-Organizational Knowledge Management: A Comparison of Law Firms in Norway and Australia
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Law firms represent an industry that seems very well suited to knowledge management investigation. Law firms are knowledge intensive, and the use of advanced technology may well transform these...
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Knowledge Management as a Key for e-Business Competitiveness
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Knowledge is the lifeblood of E-Commerce (EC). Processes and activities involved in EC are technological means that contribute to managing knowledge. This paper reviews the major perspectives on...
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Knowledge Management Capabilities & Infrastructure for e-Commerce
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Executives in leading organizations are increasingly recognizing that in order to maintain or gain competitive advantages, organizational knowledge needs to be managed for and integrated with...
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Paradigm of Integrative Analytics in Modern Catalyst Design
December 1, 2005, 12:00am PST
The pharmaceuticals and chemical industries face an increasingly stringent and complex environment and are often searching for growth through mergers and acquisitions. The pressure on these...
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What Every Business Manager Should Know About Knowledge Management
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Knowledge Management (KM) is more than reshuffling the org chart and a few job titles. It's about transforming the way business captures, manages, distributes, and interacts with its critical...
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Shooting the Past: An Instructional Case for Knowledge Management
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a case for teaching knowledge management uses an episode of Mobil (now ExxonMobil) Masterpiece Theatre, "Shooting the Past," and specifically the relationships among characters...
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Learning How and Learning What
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines effects of tacit and codified knowledge on performance improvement as organizations gain experience with a new technology. The authors' draw from knowledge management and...
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The Use of Grounded Theory as a Knowledge Development Tool
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Grounded Theory (GT) is a systematic approach to generating theory from data obtained through social science research. Knowledge management (KM) is a systematic approach for ordering corporate...
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Digital Knowledge Networks: Linking Communities of Practice With Innovation
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
With embedded knowledge flows and innovation linked to communities of practice as well as technology, Australian Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) have the potential to both collaborate and...
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Team Knowledge Structures: Matching Task to Information Environment
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The knowledge possessed by an organization and its members can be classified as explicit or tacit. Explicit knowledge can be codified and communicated without much difficulty. Tacit knowledge -...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
A Verification-Based Conflict Resolution Strategy for Knowledge Management Systems
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Knowledge Management Systems may store knowledge in many diverse forms such as people, intellectual assets, documents, databases, directories, and expert systems. When knowledge is integrated from...
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White Papers
Knowledge-Sharing in Value-Chain Networks: Certifying Collaborators for Effective Protection Processes
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Three major trends have come together at the start of the new millennium, raising the stakes for firms seeking to compete in the new economy. Initially, Knowledge Management (KM, also referred to...
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White Papers
Putting Knowledge Management to Work for Real Estate Organizations
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
"Knowledge Management" has become an increasingly popular corporate term over the last decade. But what does it mean to one and one's real estate organization? Generally, knowledge management can...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Computational Models as a Knowledge Management Tool
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Effective management of knowledge is essential for a CPA firm to remain competitive. Use of computational models of judgment processes and outcomes causes knowledge to be available for use and...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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Case Studies
Utah Health Sciences Center Uses Knowledge Management Software to Improve Customer Service as Demand Increases
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
University Health Care is part of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, which includes colleges of medicine, nursing, health and pharmacy, and supports administration, business and...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
The Effects of Knowledge Management on Team Members' Ratings of Project Success and Impact
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Many organizations are trying to improve the generation and utilization of knowledge. The activities associated with these efforts are identified as organizational Knowledge Management (KM). While...
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White Papers
Engaging Tensions of Knowledge Management Control
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Any proficient activity calls for balance, which normally entails striking the right median between extremes. Management needs to strike the right balance when it comes to deciding how best to...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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White Papers
Toward a Model of Effective Knowledge Management and Directions for Future Research: Culture, Leadership, and CKOs
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Organizational culture, organizational leadership, and Chief Knowledge Officers (CKOs) each play important roles in overcoming human barriers associated with knowledge creation, transfer and...
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White Papers
A Holistic Approach to New Product Development: New Insights
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
A participative approach to New Product Development (NPD) has been advocated in the literature since the mid-1980s. Nonetheless, the integration of NPD remains one of the top challenges facing...
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White Papers
Otential Barriers to Organizations That Put Their Human Resource People First: Exploratory Study
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The study presented in this paper explores certain management practices in which an organization treats its human resources as the most important asset. Despite evidence of a direct relationship...
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White Papers
Task and Relationship-Oriented Trust in Leaders
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The study presented in this paper examines the relative influence of competence, consistency and motivational intention upon the defined task and relationship dimensions of trust in leaders. A...
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White Papers
An Overview of Film Production Incentives
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In 1998, Canada began providing tax incentives for filmmakers and quickly turned their initiative into a multi-billion-dollar movie production industry - thus hundreds of millions of dollars from...
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White Papers
American and Armenian CEOs' Perception of the Role of Strategic Leadership in Achieving and Maintaining Global Competitiveness
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The study presented in this paper investigates the perceptions of American and Armenian CEOs toward the role of a suggested strategic leadership model developed by Ireland and Hitt in achieving...
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White Papers
Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) and Brand Identity as Critical Components of Brand Equity Strategy
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
For practitioners, Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) has become widely accepted, has pervaded various levels within the firm, and has become an integral part of brand strategy that requires...
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