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The US law extensively regulates corporate participation in the political process. The rationale for this regulatory scheme is a concern that corporate political activity, particularly campaign contributions, will corrupt the political process and enable corporations to obtain rents at society's expense. This Article challenges the prevailing characterization of corporate political activity as a distortion of the political process. Using a case study methodology, the Article examines the political involvement of one company, FedEx, in a series of regulatory reforms over a forty-year period. The FedEx story demonstrates the importance of politics to business and explains the growing investment by corporations in political capital. It further explains how the business world has responded,...
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The purpose of this study was to identify the key characteristics of a successful case discussion. The participants of this field-based case study were finance professors from Harvard Business School and the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, two top-ranked MBA programs that have used case discussion leadership as their primary philosophy of teaching and learning for many years. The methodology employed was a qualitative field study which utilized interviews of the finance professors, observations of case discussion courses, and analyses of relevant program documents. This article provides specific findings regarding the characteristics of a successful case discussion which can assist in developing the abilities and skills of educators to impleme...
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This paper addresses the implication of transforming supply chain by implementing ERP to enhance corporate performance. The research methodology uses a case study approach employing a fact-based principle that combines quantitative and qualitative methods. A model of supply chain transformation by implementing ERP has been developed based on the findings of the case study. The model exemplifies supply chain transformation for enhancing corporate performance. The paper concludes with findings, implications and recommendations for the future research.
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Quality function deployment (QFD) is a methodology for capturing and translating the voice of the customer (VOC) into engineering characteristics of products or services. In addition, the process prioritizes and deploys these customer-driven characteristics throughout the product or service development to meet the VOC (that is, customer needs, wants, and expectations). QFD determines effective development targets for the prioritized product and service characteristics. The QFD process has been used and documented extensively in product development. The service industry, however, lacks in the application of this process. The purpose of this paper is to show practitioners and researchers how this process, in its entirety, can be used as a planning process to link customer requirements and...
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Action learning involves small groups solving real problems, while learning, and applying that learning to enhance members' personal and professional development and extend team performance to benefit the whole organization. This case study is of a rehabilitation team's use of action learning methodology. It describes occurrences within each action learning cycle, the impact of the reflective-action learning cycle on intervention goals, team performance, stress, job satisfaction, client outcomes and the organization as a whole.
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Economic value added (EVA) systems and the balanced scorecard (BSC) have generated a tremendous interest in corporate America recently as approaches to performance management. Implementation of these methodologies has not proven to be easy. This paper introduces the analytical hierarchy process and shows how this methodology addresses the limitations of EVA and BSC by integrating them into one comprehensive system. A case study is used to illustrate this methodology.
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This paper is a case study of ERP implementation, with a focus on the process perspective of the implementation. The research methodology employs a fact-based principle that combines quantitative and qualitative methods. Data was collected and examined at corporate level of the subject organization. A model of integrating ERP and business process has been developed based on the findings. The paper concludes with findings, implications and recommendations for the future research.
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This article examines Lord Acton's famous assertion, "power tends to corrupt and absolute power, to corrupt absolutely," including the suggestion that democratization reduces corruption. This assertion requires us to look at the meaning of three words: power, corruption, and democracy. For this reason, the article begins by making a distinction between primary and secondary corruption (essentially, controllable and uncontrollable corruption) and between liberal democracy (emphasizing competitive politics) and classical democracy (emphasizing consensus-building politics). An argument is made for a case study approach (combined with "ordinary language" methodology) in analyzing the corruption-democracy linkage, rather than the prevailing quantitative methodology, particularly comparing In...
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In this article, we present an experiential narrative of reflexivity in qualitative empirical research. Through a dialog of three researchers on their research processes we highlight the issues of reflexivity in empirical research and show the ways by which a researcher's ontological and epistemological presumptions inform decision making throughout the research process. Generalizing from our own research experience, we call for academic discussion on the experiential knowledge researchers have on reflexivity. Sharing the experiences researchers have on reflecting the ontological and epistemological manifestations in empirical research would shorten the gap between the theoretical discussion on reflexivity and the day to day decisions an empirical researcher faces.
... organisation and management research methodology. Marta Calas and Linda Smirchich (1999) date the i...Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan's 1979 study on the role of metatheoretical assumptions in orga... discourses of knowledge construction in a case company, Valmet Aircraft Industry. Her research tr...
