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An Analysis of Working Capital Management Results Across Industries
Firms are able to reduce ?nancing costs and/or increase the funds available for expansion by minimizing the amount of funds tied up in current assets. We provide insights into the performance of surveyed ?rms across key components of working capital management by using the CFO magazine’s annual Working Capital Management Survey. We discover that signi?cant differences exist between industries in working capital […]
IBBEA Implementation and the Relative Profitability of Small Banks
The enactment of Riegle-Neal IBBEA in 1994 encouraged bank mergers and acquisitions. Empirical evidence indicates that large banks bene?ted from IBBEA enactment. However, there is little, if any, evidence of the impact of the act on small banks’ pro?tability relative to large banks. This study examines the impact of IBBEA on the performance of small banks in the period preceding and […]
Modeling Internet Operations Using Initial Public Offerings
In this research we test the generalizability of an existing model for classifying information-intensive services that can be globally disaggregated to Internet services. This categorization allows us to judge which types of Internet Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) are likely to have superior performance. Speci?cally, we hypothesize that Internet ?rms with higher information intensity, lower physical presence and lower customer contact needs will […]
The Communication Effectiveness of System Models Using the UML versus Structured Techniques: A Field Experiment
The Unified Modeling Language has become an alternative to traditional modeling languages such as data flow diagrams for use in systems analysis. A modeling language is used to represent an information system so that analysts can use the model to make decisions about the design of the system and to communicate with stakeholders about the […]
Building a Market-Oriented Organizational Environment: An Implementation Framwork for Small Organizations
The strong link between a market orientation and performance in small organizations rests on the organization’s ability to use its market-oriented culture to create a sustainable competitive advantage. To do this requires the ?rm to build and maintain a strong market orientation. Using an internal customer-internal supplier perspective, this paper identi?es a framework for implementation that an organization can undertake to create […]
Implementing Planned Change: An Empirical Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives
Planned organizational change has been viewed from a variety of conceptual perspectives, and a plethora of variables that impact the change process have been proposed. However, few empirical studies have investigated the relationships thought to exist among change process variables. Drawing from questionnaire-based data obtained from managers involved in the implementation of change, we evaluate […]
