Otis Chandler is the founder of Goodreads.com, a social networking site for book lovers. Chandler talks about the benefits of his site above others that feature similar content and his own personal experiences with Goodreads.com.
What can Sir Thomas More and Sophocles teach tomorrow's business leaders? Harvard Business School's Sandra Sucher explains how she uses great literature to teach moral leadership. by BNET staff
A “business angel,” also known as an “angel investor,” is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business, typically an equity investment. Angels rarely make loans or outright grants. Business angels most often support individual entrepreneurs and brand-new ventures, although they can assist any venture in need. The term...
This paper is a review of work published in various journals on the topics of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP. The paper intends to serve three goals. First, it will be useful to researchers who are interested in understanding what kinds of questions have been addressed in the area of ERP....
This paper attempts to draw connections between the extensive literature on management and leadership in schools and the research on Information Communication Technology ICT integration. Studies show the problematic relationship of management and leadership practice with meaningful ICT integration (MacDonald 2006). The paper will distinguish transformative ICT integration from other...
Many real-life contract agreements actually involve negotiations in which both parties have some bargaining power. However, standard contract theory assumes that the principal holds all of the bargaining power. The literature has typically modeled that with a one-shot game in which the principal makes a take-it-or-leave-it offer to the agent....
In last few decades, mentoring has been identified, often uncritically, as an overwhelmingly positive workplace learning activity for men, women and minority groups in a variety of organisational settings such as schools, universities, hospitals, corporations, and government departments. This paper begins by exploring what is understood by mentoring, the functions...
Product development is of great importance to many companies. At the same time, product development is risky, as companies set out to do things they have never done before. The literature has introduced a variety of models on product development to manage this challenging process. These models are often supplemented...
The purpose of the study presented in this paper was to explore how three different human resource variables affect employment growth of small-scale enterprises: human capital of business owners, human capital of employees, and human resource development and utilization. The literature suggests different models of how these human resource variables...
A large literature examines the e?ects of a firm's mixture of debt and equity on its incentives to produce. For nearly 30 years, researchers have examined the consequences of splits between ownership and control agency models and the resulting diversity of claims on cash flow. A related stream of research...
Search for knowledge and opportunities is a fundamental concept in explanations for firm evolution. It has been recognized as providing the impetus for knowledge-based development and generating a strategic options menu. Despite search playing a major role in firms. strategic development, the literature provides only a limited theoretical framework for...
A large literature has shown that geographic frictions reduce trade, but has not clarified precisely why. This paper provides insights into why such frictions matter by examining which parts of trade these frictions reduces most. Using data that tracks manufacturers' shipments within the United States on an exceptionally fine grid,...
This paper consists of a literature review and an analysis of an existing database on Human Resource Management HRM the Cranet survey. It focuses on research that connects human capital with the firm and asks whether education, skills/competence and training have any impact on company performance. The main results may...
The literature has not being able to identify clear-cut real effects of exchange-rate regimes on output growth. Similarly, no definitive view emerges from the literature in regard to the effects of open capital markets on macroeconomic performance. The paper attributes the failure of the literature to fundamental flaws, consisting of...
Since the papers of Basu et. al. and Lal and Srinivasan, marketing academics have been interested in the design and implementation of optimal compensation plans. The literature has focused on agency theory as a foundation to help describe and understand this process. Although there has been much theoretical work on...
Early contributions to the academic literature on free/libre and open source software (F/LOSS) movements have been directed primarily at identifying the motivations that account for the sustained and often intensive involvement of many people in this non-contractual and unremunerated productive activity. This issue has been particularly prominent in economists' contributions...
The literature focusing on the geography of entrepreneurship has developed some-thing of a schizophrenic approach. On the one hand is a series of studies, which have tried to identify characteristics specific to particular regions that account for inter-spatial variations in entrepreneurship. On the other hand is a literature that has...
Literature has started to point out the increasing importance of creativity in organizational context and a positive relationship with organizational performance. While there is ample literature on the use of Information Systems IS to support the management of other drivers of organizational performance, the relationship between IS and creativity management...
A substantial literature has grown up around the issue of how inward direct investment affects host countries. On almost every aspect of this question, there seems to be a wide range of empirical results in academic literature, and little sign of convergence. It is our purpose here to try to...
The literature reviews the scientific literature on consumer choice in health care. The purpose of this literature review is to explore models of consumer choice and their effects, with an eye towards identifying options for further exploration in the project. The literature review tried to find evidence for effects of...
