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Currency Swaps: Currency swaps allow companies to exploit the global capital markets more efficiently. They are an integral arbitrage link between the interest rates of different developed countries.The future of banking lies in the securitization and diversification of loan portfolios. The global currency swap market will play an integral role in this...; Tags: Financial services, Financial Planning, Thomson Corp., interest rate, arbitrage, capital market, banking, bank; White papers
An Overview of Film Production Incentives: In 1998, Canada began providing tax incentives for filmmakers and quickly turned their initiative into a multi-billion-dollar movie production industry - thus hundreds of millions of dollars from state and communities in the United States. This fantastic growth precipitated a bellwether response to "Runaway productions" - films that could be...; Tags: Sales force management, Strategy, Gale Group, tax incentive, competitive advantage, commission, incentive, U.S., tax, financial, industry; White papers
Integrating Inter- and Extra-Enterprise Applications Using Web Services: The fast-paced advancement of information technology is rapidly changing the business world. Fulfilling on-demand service requests is vital to today's business survival. Enterprises must incessantly upgrade and integrate their e-infrastructures in order to maintain their competitive advantage. One major roadblock to integration is that there is usually an inherent heterogeneity...; Tags: Strategy, Gale Group, legacy system, competitive advantage, knowledge, information technology, software; White papers
The Impact of High Performance Work on Industry-Level Outcomes: Organizations today face an increasingly competitive and rapidly changing environment. A variety of factors including globalization, technological breakthroughs, rapid innovation, and deregulation have eliminated competitive barriers and forced many organizations to fundamentally reformulate how they attain competitive advantage on a level playing field. In an era of "Leaner and meaner"...; Tags: Performance management, Leadership, Strategy, Gale Group, globalization, barrier, competitive advantage, performance, high-performance, environment; White papers
The Use of Grounded Theory as a Knowledge Development Tool: Grounded Theory GT is a systematic approach to generating theory from data obtained through social science research. Knowledge management KM is a systematic approach for ordering corporate data to achieve sustained optimal performance in an organization. This paper examines the extent to which GT is an effective tool in the...; Tags: Strategy, Business intelligence, Gale Group, knowledge management, knowledge, theory, performance, tool; White papers

Thomson ISI Uses CRM From Salesforce to Manage Its Complex Global Data: Thomson was dissatisfied with PeopleSoft's Vantive software solution. The company selected salesforce.com Enterprise Edition over UpShot. Real-time visibility into all account activity in multiple languages for hundreds of global marketing & sales users. This resulted in better able to manage multiple tiers of organization; and also improved sales rep effectiveness.; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Thomson Corp., Salesforce.com Inc., sales, CRM, marketing, software; Case studies
Intangible Assets: Computers and Organizational Capital: This paper analytically explores the hypothesis that new, intangible organizational assets complement IT Information Technology capital just as new production processes and factory redesign complemented the adoption of electric motors over 100 years ago. To realize the potential benefits of computerization, investments in additional "Assets" such as new organizational processes...; Tags: Asset management, Financial accounting, Gale Group, asset, financial market, incentive, information technology, monitoring, worker, benefit, financial, computer; White papers
On Higher Ground: Despite occasional meltdowns, bonds from emerging markets have become solid performers in recent years. Most Americans, whether working with a financial adviser or investing on their own, tend to limit their choice of fixed-income securities to Treasury bonds of well-known U.S. companies. The World Bank defines emerging markets as countries...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, Thomson Corp., emerging market, bond, income, financial, security; White papers
I Didn’t Do It: "MasterCard and Visa are having a hard time fighting Internet and telephone fraud. The technology is there, but there's little incentive for all parties to cooperate. Above all, MasterCard and Visa are duking it out with each other. Financially consumer can suffer no loss. Surveys have shown, however, that...; Tags: MasterCard International, Visa Inc., incentive, survey, financial, phone, Internet; White papers
Getting Smart About Data, Then Acting on It: Better technology is making it easier for banks to mine data internal and external to up profits and cut costs. Harnessing this potential takes a new kind of intelligence. The article asserts an insurer may want to see how an agent performs in a certain territory against agents in other...; Tags: Real estate, agent, bank; White papers
Team Knowledge Structures: Matching Task to Information Environment: The knowledge possessed by an organization and its members can be classified as explicit or tacit. Explicit knowledge can be codified and communicated without much difficulty. Tacit knowledge - such as the manner of operating sensitive equipment, decision-making judgment in the absence of data, or interpersonal skills - is not...; Tags: Team management, Strategy, Gale Group, knowledge, team, decision-making; White papers
American and Armenian CEOs' Perception of the Role of Strategic Leadership in Achieving and Maintaining Global Competitiveness: The study presented in this paper investigates the perceptions of American and Armenian CEOs toward the role of a suggested strategic leadership model developed by Ireland and Hitt in achieving and maintaining global competitiveness. The results of this study indicates that the surveyed CEOs in both countries agree that the...; Tags: Strategy, Gale Group, organizational culture, core competency, human capital, CEO, leadership, vision; White papers
Families, Kids, and the Workforce: Human capital-the education, work experience, training, and health of the state's population-is as important to Montana's economy as public capital and energy in producing output and getting it to markets. Higher levels of human capital increase the earning power of workers and, ultimately, the well-being of Montana families. Despite the...; Tags: Workforce management, Gale Group, Montana, human capital, workforce, training, worker, health care; White papers
Good Faith and Wrongful Termination in Canada and the United States: A Comparative and Relational Inquiry: Involuntary separation from one's employment represents one of the most dramatic events that can happen to an individual in his or her lifetime. Terminations, whether by layoff, firing, or company closure, affect not only the employees' personal well-being but the stability of their families. The way in which a nation...; Tags: Workforce management, Gale Group, termination, firing, layoff; White papers
Where Did the Productivity Growth Go?: Ian Dew-Becker and Robert Gordon have put together a very nice paper that covers some important ground. Although in this paper, the author will highlight some quibbles and questions, his overall view is that the paper in question is quite interesting and extremely well crafted. The issue the authors examine...; Tags: Gale Group, benefit; White papers
Union Rules in Nonuinon Settings: The NLRB and Workplace Investigations: This paper first briefly reviews the heightened importance of conducting workplace investigations. Then it focuses on the latest development in the investigatory process, the reach of the National Labor Relations Board NLRB into the nonunion workforce, and present suggestions to employers for dealing with the extension of certain rights heretofore...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Gale Group, workplace, workforce; White papers
How Are Earnings Managed?: Examples From Auditors: This paper reports descriptive evidence about how managers attempt to manage earnings, based on a sample of 515 earnings-management attempts obtained from a survey of 253 experienced auditors (and also analyzed by Nelson et al. 2002). The authors classify attempts first according to primary approach: expense recognition, revenue recognition, issues...; Tags: Financial accounting, Gale Group, revenue recognition, earnings, survey; White papers
Strategic Alliances and the Management of Intellectual Properties: The Art of the Contract: Patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks often compose as much as 85% of a corporation's economic value. Because product lifecycles have shortened as technology advances ever more rapidly, businesses frequently look to partnerships, joint-ventures, and other alliances to speed development of intellectual properties. But such arrangements should be entered into...; Tags: Strategy, Gale Group, intellectual property, product lifecycle, strategic alliance, alliance, partnership, agreement; White papers
Competitive Advantage and International Business: Examining Path Dependencies in International Business: This paper examines competitive advantage, entry mode, international strategy, and performance. Firms develop certain competencies and capabilities over a long period of time while operating in the domestic environment and these competencies and capabilities form the basis of a firm's competitive advantage. This paper categorizes multinationals into internal focus, external...; Tags: Strategy, Gale Group, international business, competency, competitive advantage, international strategy, performance, environment; White papers
CRM in Sales-Intensive Organizations: A Review and Future Directions: According to one study, implementing Customer Relationship Management CRM strategy currently ranks among the top five corporate objectives in over 60 percent of enterprises. With the advent of technology enabling greater customer tracking, more robust knowledge management, and direct customer communication, the implementation of relationship marketing strategies has grown in...; Tags: Gale Group, relationship marketing, knowledge management, strategy, CRM, knowledge, sales; White papers