Global Communications Problem Solution Paper and Defense Problem Solution: Global Communications (GC), once riding the telecommunications boom of the 1990's, now has a plummeting stock price and very nervous board of directors. The future of the company depends on its ability to benchmark and outsource operations while effectively communicating the strategic plan in an ethical way. Like many of their competitors in this volatile industry, profit margin is shrinking, competition is intense,
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Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ What We Know and Don't Know About Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review and Research Agenda Herman Aguinis and Ante Glavas Journal of Management 2012 38: 932 originally published online 1 March 2012 DOI: 10.1177/0149206311436079 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/38/4/932 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information
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Innovation, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Morgan P. Miles Linda S. Munilla Jeffrey G. Covin ABSTRACT. This paper is a response to Ray’s (2004) recent proposal that the intellectual property rights (IPR) attached to potentially life saving/life sustaining innovations should become public goods in cases where markets are either unable or unwilling to pay for the creation of the intellectual property. Using a free market approach to innovation based on Western moral philosophy, we suggest that
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Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing Green marketing in B2B organisations: an empirical analysis from the natural‐resource‐based view of the firm Elena Fraj Eva Martínez Jorge Matute Article information: To cite this document: Elena Fraj Eva Martínez Jorge Matute, (2013),"Green marketing in B2B organisations: an empirical analysis from the natural#resource#based view of the firm", Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 28 Iss 5 pp. 396 - 410 Permanent link to this document: http://dx
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assess to and ability to disseminate information. The information technology revolution has brought about a drastic change in the business environment, its structure and the business process. Information technology has become a strategic tool that drives the strategic initiatives of organizations and businesses. Manual processes have been replaced with automated processes, routine bookkeeping and recording of financial information is being done electronically, and the ease and speed of transacting business
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discussion of operational issues in the morning and strategic issues in the afternoon. But with the company under pressure to meet quarterly targets, operational items had started to crowd strategy out of the agenda. Inevitably, the review of actual monthly and forecast quarterly financial performance revealed revenues to be lower, and expenses to be higher, than targeted. The worried managers spent hours discussing how to close the gap through pricing initiatives, capacity downsizing, SG&A staff cuts, and
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Title of the Article/Published Scientific Paper Quality Management in a Changing Organizational Environment: Looking for New Conversation Tools Statement of the Article/Paper’s Research Problem A lot of criticisms have been lodged about Total Quality management on its ability in providing sustained competitive advantage. While some major organizations like IBM, Xerox and GE, to name a few, swear that TQM has offered them significant sustained competitive advantage; the big players with TQM
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1. Introduction This paper aims at examining a case study of the Hispanic oriented broadcasting Company Entravision. With outdated customer inquiry strategies such as focus groups or interviews, Entravision slowly but surely fell behind in the ever more digitalized broadcasting market. Having found a market niche in the Hispanic market segment, Entravision set out to create a new Data analytics department called Luminar to utilize and profit from information gathered about the Hispanic core customership
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data infrastructure, and compares its build-out to previous impactful infrastructure build-outs like electricity and the railroad. Carr claims that IT has become a commodity, and businesses can no longer use their IT as a competitive advantage. This paper will further analyze Carr’s article, and make recommendations as to how businesses can leverage IT as a competitive advantage for the future. Analysis Rationale To fully understand how a business can leverage IT as a competitive advantage, one must
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Additionally, diversity in the workforce is increasing with more women assuming roles that were previously male dominated. How an organization manages their respective diversity programs will have a direct impact on the success of the company. This paper will identify a few of the best practices some organizations have implemented to improve and solidify their diversity programs. The ways in which a leader of a company or organization manages diversity directly impacts the level of success the
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