SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from September 1997

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from September 1997

Implementing information technology innovations: the activity-based costing example.
September 22, 1997... During the past decade, managements have recognized the advantages of many new theories, such as total quality management and just-in-time, but have not always found them easy to implement. Likewise, activity-based costing (ABC), a recent...

Reframing strategic risk.
September 22, 1997... While the traditional finance and decision theories of risk are valuable, they may result in misleading conclusions from a strategic perspective. A strategic approach based on contingency theory and the three core problems of managing offers a...

Strategies for individual survival during a corporate consolidation.
September 22, 1997... In the past year or so, hardly a day went by without a report of a corporate merger, acquisition, or internal downsizing or restructuring. The trends show no signs of abating. For employees of the companies involved, such events are traumatic --...

Strategic reengineering: an internal industry analysis framework.
September 22, 1997... No man is an island and, increasingly, no company or industry can .function profitably without some degree of intra-industry integration. Through a model based on companies competing in major segments of the air transportation industry, key...

Employer legal liability for employee workplace violence.
September 22, 1997... With 20 people becoming homicide victims in the workplace every week, businesses can hardly ignore this threat and its legal implications. Most such homicides occur in large metropolitan areas, but business everywhere -- particularly smaller...