SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from June 2002

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from June 2002

From the editor-in-chief.(Abstract)
June 22, 2002... The six articles in this issue address a variety of management issues, five of which relate to the Internet. The first article, by Reynolds, reports on a study of field managers in a foodservice company. It finds that "the linkage between...

The good, the bad, and the ugly of incorporating "My Fair Lady" in the workplace.
June 22, 2002... Introduction Researchers have long focused on methods of enhancing employee performance and productivity (e.g., Argyris, 1964; Avery, Dewhirst, & Brown, 1978; Barnard, 1948; Gantt, 1921; Jones, James, & Bruni, 1975; Kondrasuk, 1981;...

Dot-Com companies: are they all hype?
June 22, 2002... Introduction Infrastructure advances drove the first three eras of disruptive change in retailing: railroads enabled department stores; rural free delivery enabled mail-order catalogs; and the automobile enabled the rise of discount...

Facing the challenges of e-goverment: a case study of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas.
June 22, 2002... Introduction Over the past half century, a fundamental transition has begun to occur in society. Information, most recently in the form of the Internet, is becoming a transformative force that is bringing about pervasive paradigmatic...

Managerial issues for expanding into international Web-based electronic commerce.
June 22, 2002... Introduction Electronic commerce (e-commerce) involves the automation of commercial transactions using computer and communications technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web (Westland & Clark, 1999). It has brought about a...

The effect of Internet usage on cooperation and performance in small hotels.
June 22, 2002... As information technology usage has increased greatly due to more user-friendly applications, cheaper and faster software and hardware, and major advances in telecommunication capabilities and usability, more business are including the Internet...

Academic internships with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: an experiential approach to teaching human resource management.
June 22, 2002... For a number of years, organizations have called for more "relevance" in the educational training of managers to ease students' transitions from the classroom to the workplace (Kleinschrod, 1971). Employers have complained that higher education...