Because of Alfred D. Chandler Jr's widely influential books and articles, historians of management and of business have often taken a firm, especially a manufacturing firm, as their unit of analysis. Despite its usefulness as an organizing concept, the firm-based approach does not take into consideration the management of networked systems, which have spread widely and posed major managerial challenges in recent decades. In this essay, the author shall compare the firm and the networked-systems approaches, but first he stresses that his attention is focused upon networked electric-power systems. Besides arguing that the management of networked, electric-power systems is worthy of attention, he is also contending that their management deeply influenced managerial practices in general bet...
The purpose of this article is to investigate . For this we look at existing literature from the disparate fields in which multinationals and emerging markets have been explored in the last forty years (1968-2008). The paper finds that there is a plethora of material on multinationals and emerging markets and our bibliographical search resulted in 1,282 articles with 2,174 authors published in 514 journals. The three dominant disciplines and their underlying journals are management, business and economics accounting together about seventy percent of all publications. In the case of the management and business journals, the top ten percent account for fourty-three percent of all publications and fifty percent of all citations. T...
Now that supply chain management has a two-decade research history, it is possible to examine the literature to identify whether there is any latent intellectual structure using bibliometric tools. The study applies a citation and co-citation approach to reveal four clusters of research that have emerged. One cluster has strong ties to the logistics field, with primarily conceptual articles. A second cluster finds its roots in operations research, and consists mainly of modeling articles. The application of multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, and factor analysis on co-citations demonstrated a clearly identifiable structure. The structure is examined and implications for the future development of supply chain research are discussed.
This paper reviews 726 academic research studies covering logistics and supply chain management (L&SCM) applications within a global context. Articles are analyzed according to their publication year and outlet, common themes, and countries or regions investigated. The sample was drawn from the ABI/INFORM Global database, which includes almost 1,800 journal titles. The review offers a starting point for researchers, graduate students, faculty members or practitioners examining international L&SCM applications. The article also draws attention to the wide array of global L&SCM studies conducted, their settings and viewpoints. Additionally, this paper highlights some of the most interesting works and draws attention to lesser-researched countries and regions of the world. The ...
NFAIS held its Annual Conference Feb. 22-24 in Philadelphia. The conference opened with a keynote by Yahoo's chief scientist, Jan Pedersen. The remainder of the first day was devoted to search engines and user behavior. Simon Inger, director of Scholarly Information Strategies, Ltd., presented some fascinating data from a comparative study of Google and traditional information services. For the study, a set of known articles was searched using Google. STM articles are easy to find on Google because of their specific language. In addition, their publishers make an effort to have their content indexed by this engine. In contrast, business, management, or social science articles are harder to find with Google because their language utilizes words that are more commonly used, and their pub...
Volunteer business leaders working to maintain and continually improve the relationship between the military and civilian communities. * Tucson Council for International Visitors: A non-profit group that designs and implements professional programs and provides cultural activities and home hospitality opportunities for foreign leaders, specialists and international scholars.
The very role of a board of directors in the system of corporate governance is to oversee a corporation's business and affairs, including its management, because numerous dispersed stockholders cannot effectively perform that function on their own. But if directors incurred liability for every misstep they took, or bad decision they made, it would indeed be rare to find a person willing to serve as a director. In Delaware, where the majority of US corporations are incorporated, the hallmark fiduciary duties are the duties of care and loyalty. But if Delaware corporate law is considered the national corporate law, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is perhaps best described as its smash sequel. While competent, good, or best corporate practices vary from circumstance, from company to company...
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... and the factors affecting modern sport management. In this paper, we investigate the above issues in... and book chapters as well as numerous articles in academic journals, including Academy of Managem...
Previous management fads (as measured by the number of articles in the business literature on the topic) showed a consistent pattern of boom and bust over a roughly 10-year cycle, with four or five years of explosive logarithmic growth, followed by an only slightly longer period of almost equally dramatic decline. The late 20th century was full of business enthusiasms and fads, but knowledge management (KM) is unlike any of the rest. It is quite literally in a class by itself. With four more years of data, it is clear that KM is now in a pattern all its own: first, the typical four- or five-year burst of explosive growth, but since then a pattern of stable, mature growth -- not a pattern of boom and bust, but a pattern of boom and continuity. But there is something else unique about KM:...
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