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SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from March 2008
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SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from March 2008
Duplicate, replicate, speculate, or innovate? How health care managers solve problems.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Most of the innovative efforts in the huge health care industry are directed toward medical technologies, not delivery of treatment, patient safety, and expectations. Inefficient processes abound. What factors determine the willingness of...
Competitive strategy and the Wal-Mart threat: positioning for survival and success.
March 22, 2008... The popular image is that Wal-Mart comes to town and locally-owned retailers shrivel up and die. This may happen, but it doesn't have to. Retailers who carefully analyze their own strengths and weaknesses vis a vis Wal-Mart's may survive and...
How trust reduces transaction costs and enhances performance in China's businesses.(Report)
March 22, 2008... It stands to reason that when businesses trust each other the costs associated with transactions between them will be lower since safeguards are not needed. Lower transaction costs should enhance profit. But does trust have these results in a...
Forced ranking: a review.(Report)
March 22, 2008... When Jack Welch extolled a management tool, all managers took note. One such tool was "forced ranking," in which managers rank employees in their department against others in that department or a designated peer group. The top 20% are rewarded...
The future of disability harassment law in the workplace.
March 22, 2008... In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a claim of sexual harassment brought under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, thereby validating sexual harassment as a form of discrimination prohibited by that Act. Will a similar interpretation...
Reflecting on downsizing: what have managers learned?(Report)
March 22, 2008... Before the 1990s, firms downsized--deliberately shrank--in response to hard times. Now, however, downsizing is just another management tool to increase profitability, efficiency, and competitiveness. Despite a growing body of evidence that the...