For most organizations, the information explosion of the mature Digital Age has made current approaches to Information Integrity (the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of the information) obsolete. This article details extrinsic and intrinsic information errors and their impact, and spells out the need for effective real-time automated information controls.
Keywords:Information integrity, Information explosion, IT, Information controls, Boards of directors
With market environments becoming ever more global and virtual, cultural market research is gaining ground in business and academic life as a new way of understanding market complexity. This new "cultural turn" or cultural emphasis can also help firms to create greater sustainable competitive advantage.
Keywords:Cultural research, Competitive advantage, Cultural turn, Ethnography, Virtual ethnography
Your marketing director may be trying to convince you that profits are suffering because prices are set too high. Your operations director is probably claiming prices are too low. Before you decide which of the two is right, you may consider asking your management team to come up with more creative pricing solutions.
The middle managers role within today’s organisation has changed considerably. Companies have downsized, employees have become empowered, and the middle manager feels that their position within the organisation is becoming less important and less strategic. For CEOs and organisations concerned with sustainable market advantage implementation is a key variable, where the process matters as much as the product.
The study of M&A should be examined from a practitioner viewpoint and any analysis broadened and made more pluralistic to include all stakeholders and aspects of the deal, bringing in paradoxes, tensions and interactions ignored in over-focused academic studies. The wider horizon sought by this article will help to explain apparent contradictions like the popularity of M&A when the failure rate is high and rising.
PowerPoint is a powerful piece of communication technology that has had profound consequences on presentations (business and educational), classroom communication and, possibly, on the nature of learning itself. An analysis of the ways in which PowerPoint is used offers considerable insights into, first, the nature of educational technologies and their organizational implementations, second, the effect of these technologies on the construction and dissemination of organizational knowledge, and, third, on the qualities and skills of a society of spectacle, where a great deal of organizational knowledge assumes the form of visual representations.
The authors provide evidence of the interlocking networks of members of Supervisory Boards of Directors (Aufsichtsrat) in Germany, ie., directors who are members of more than one Board. Since the Boards play an active role in corporate mergers and takeovers, and particularly in promoting anti-takeover mechanisms, the extent of such interlocks is important.
This article considers a model of specifically-defined organizational development. For a successful organization, managers need to combine six key building blocks in a fashion which is appropriate to the organization’s stage of growth as it increases in size and complexity. Failure to do so results in ‘growing pains’.
Keywords:Growth, organizational development, growing pains, Organizational life cycle
This is the FIRST of TWO linked articles on consumer behavioural analysis. Cognitive theories have dominated the field of consumer behaviour for the last few decades, however, an observed lack of consistency between attitudes and behaviour has suggested the need to investigate more thoroughly situational and behavioural variables. Consumer behaviour analysis can be viewed as an alternative theoretical approach that emphasizes situational variables and measures of behaviour.
In 2007 and 2008, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), mostly from Asia and the Middle East, invested billions of dollars in the stocks of major US financial institutions, but prior to these investments, SWFs were relatively unknown in the US. Following major investments by SWFs in the US stock market, both investors and regulators are taking a closer look at them.
Keywords:Sovereign Wealth Funds, Credit crisis, International financial investment, Global capital, Hedge funds, Investment banks
