SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from March 2004

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from March 2004

From the Editor-in-Chief.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... The six articles in this issue address topics such as creativity and productivity, software development using the concept of lean manufacturing, knowledge absorptive capacity, overseas Chinese entrepreneurs, effective repatriation, and direct...

Creativity and productivity: resolving the conflict.
March 22, 2004... In today's new economy, businesses must manage and motivate well-educated knowledge workers with less direct supervision. High levels of both individual productivity and creativity are required as we strive to quickly develop new products and...

Lean object-oriented software development.
March 22, 2004... Software failures can be dramatic, expensive, and catastrophic. The London Stock Exchange was developed eleven years late and 13,200% over budget (Corr 2002). A catastrophic software failure in February 1998 interrupted the New York Mercantile...

Absorptive capacity and the implementation of knowledge-intensive best practices.
March 22, 2004... The growing attention to organizational innovation in manufacturing firms reflects the sustainable competitive advantage fostered by superior dynamic capabilities. Knowledge-based competition has magnified the importance of learning alliances...

High technology and globalization challenges facing overseas Chinese entrepreneurs.
March 22, 2004... Introduction From the end of World War II until the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, the economies of East Asia, from Vietnam to Taiwan, grew rapidly (Aggarwal, 1999). As the financial crisis ended, the region settled back into steady,...

Issues of effective repatriation: a model and managerial implications.
March 22, 2004... Basically, I find that companies have three ways of treating expatriates. One is like Ford Motor Company--to develop them in the small company to run the larger company later. In other words, they send them to Argentina or Italy to run a plant,...

The allocation and motivation of Japanese and U.S. foreign direct investment in an economically integrated area: the case of the European Union.
March 22, 2004... Introduction Regional economic integration has increased significantly over the past two decades, accelerating the free movement of production factors across national boundaries and negating theories of international trade based on...