Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship

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A Historical Perspective Approach for Practicing Managers to Improve Ethics

Ethical behavior in the workplace continues to present itself as a major challenge for practicing managers. Managers often seek answers about what can be done in promoting high levels of ethical behavior in their organizations. The paper discusses and presents a historical perspective in developing a holistic and qualitative approach to ethical behavior by evaluating both organizational and individual aspects of ethics. Emerging from the qualitative evaluation, the paper provides a realistic ...

Pay Satisfaction, Cognitive Complexity, and Global Solutions: Is a Single Structure Appropriate for Everyone?

In the current paper we partially replicate and extend prior work by Carraher and Buckley (1996a & b) and Carraher, Buckley, & Carraher (2002) who had examined the relationship between mean group levels of cognitive complexity and the number of observed dimensions for pay satisfaction as measured by the PSQ within several samples. Using 41 data sets from journal articles and academic presentations in order to examine the dimensional nature of the PSQ and an equation for estimating mea...

Re-Evaluating the Business Sourcing Model in Electronic Commerce Initiatives

Electronic commerce (EC) involves business transactions, marketing efforts, information gathering, and other functional activities with respect to information technology (IT) both within and without an organization. It provides various opportunities to a firm to adopt different business sourcing models and allows new opportunities to configure organizational structure within the New Economy, an economy based on the network connectiveness of today's technology-based business enviornment. Criti...

Fourth Generation Online Learning for Business and Hospitality Management Schools: So Far, so Fast

The author is a university professor who has been teaching business and hospitality management courses in cyberspace formats since the mid 1990s. Over the years there have been many lessons learned in Web-based online distance education that have been shared with like-minded colleagues. The author is known to be an advocate of using delivery methods that appeal to learners at the lowest common technological denominator (LCTD), otherwise referred to as end users with access to commonly availab...

Knowledge Based Resources and Organizational Capabilities: A Study of New Entry

This study links an organization's learning orientation, learning behaviors, the capabilities associated with those activities, and new entry. The study reveals how firms seeking flexibility and regular entry into new markets pursue more active and more varied learning experiences than do firms seeking greater efficiency and targeting a stable segment of the market. The study describes experiential and experimental learning behaviors associated with a learning orientation and reveals a positi...

Measuring the Effect of Investment in Intellectual Capital

IBM purchased Price Waterhouse Coopers Consulting (PWCC) in 2002 for $2.6 billion (net), of which only about $600 million were "hard" assets. The rest, about $2 billion, is an asset called "intellectual capital" (IC). If IBM had instead invested $2 billion in training to compete with PWCC, this 2 billion would not have been counted as a plus to investments but instead as a negative against profits, one measure of management's success. Broadly speaking then, how can we measure the unrecorded i...

The Study of Top Management Team Heterogeneity, Sociocultural Context, and Internationalization, On Firm Performance: Where to Go From Here

This article reviews the study of the Top Management Team (TMT). Specifically being reviewed is the upper echelons perspective. Inconsistent findings point to complexities in the relationships of the TMT to demographic proxies. These complexities have made it difficult to explain the relationship between the TMT and firm performance in simplistic terms. Studies examined from the performance, heterogeneity, and international perspective point to inconsistencies in the relationship between demo...

Executive Interview

The Making of an Entrepreneur: Nature Vs. Nurture, an Interview with Mel Baiada

In an interview, Mel Baiada, president and CEO of Sengen and Base Camp Ventures, talked about entrepreneurship. Since Baiada has an established entrepreneurship record and a dedication to education, academia can benefit from his views. His insights provide an incomparable opportunity to learn about the multitude of issues involved in entrepreneurship and venture capitalism and to stimulate classroom discussion, curriculum opinion and research questions. The number one criterion for starting a...

Books-At-A-Glance

Mary P. Follet: Creating Democracy, Transforming Management

Mary P. Follet: Creating Democracy, Transforming Management, by Joan C. Tonn, is reviewed.

The Wright Way: 7 Problem-Solving Principles From the Wright Brothers That Can Make Your Business Soar

The Wright Way: 7 Problem-Solving Principles from the Wright Brothers That Can Make Your Business Soar, by Mark Eppler, is reviewed.

The Naked Employee: How Technology Is Compromising Workplace Privacy

The Naked Employee: How Technology is Compromising Workplace Privacy, by Frederick S. Lane, is reviewed.

The Student Perspective

Entrepreneurship: An Alternative to Unemployment

This paper introduces the notions of field theory, systems theory and complexity theory as they apply to the marketing discipline, specifically to customer value learning. The objective is to extend a somewhat limited linear model to include the nuances of a non-linear marketing discipline. Woodruff's model of customer value learning (CVL) is extended to integrate an open systems view of the organization, processes and environment. The proposed open systems view also incorporates the notion o...