Showing papers in "Business Horizons in 2004"

TL;DR: The importance of human knowledge, experiences, skills, and expertise has been investigated extensively by Harter,Schmidt, and Hayes (2002) and others and found to have a significant positive impact on performance outcomes.

TL;DR: According to the World Bank (1997), in themid-1990s China was the largest outward investor among developing countries and the eighth largest supplier of outward investment among all countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe RFID as a technique for electronic labeling and identification of objects using radio waves, which has fairly diverse applications, ranging from marathon races and airline baggage tracking to hazardous material management, electronic security keys, and supply chain management.

TL;DR: The Gart-ner Group estimates that 55 percent of CRM projects are not expected to produce results as discussed by the authors, due to a lack of companywide commitment to the system, and failures due to lack of customer focus.

TL;DR: The authors identified eight character-istics that reliably distinguish between fads and classics, which managers can use to avoid the former and capture the latter. But, these characteristics accounted not only for the initial popularity and rapid spread offads, but also for the lack of long-term effects of fads.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors describe the First Emperor of China as a tyrant whose methods in-cluded large-scale extermination of all traces of Confu-cianism and destroyed all books written before his reign,believing them to be breeding grounds for future dissent.

TL;DR: In contrast to friendly takeovers, when the bidder's proposal receives a positive reaction from the target's executives and board of directors, hostile bids are unsolicited offers that challenge the strategic direction and leadership of the company as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In the post-Enron epoch, marketing executives have responded to this second-guessing game in four main ways: irony, via nostalgia, through inclusion and by means of mediability as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This article showed that the number of diversified firms among the top 12 US, European, Japanese, and other companies in the major sectors of world industry dropped by half between 1980 and 2000, with most of that drop occurring in the 1990s.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a step back and reexamine the dynamics of e-business and its poten-tial impact on the economy from fundamental and enduring economic principles.

TL;DR: A study by Calderon, Chen, and Kim as mentioned in this paper found that 35 percent did not employ data mining among Fortune 500 companies and cited four reasons for not using it: faced with a more pressing business problem, not seen as cost effective, lack of familiarity, and lack of skilled personnel.