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{"title":"Assessing Project Management Maturity in the Area of Knowledge Management in Select Companies","authors":"S. Spalek","doi":"10.11648/J.IJEFM.20140202.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJEFM.20140202.18","url":null,"abstract":"Project management is of high significance for companies nowadays. This is of special interest for those organizations which operate in the multi-project environment. For them, it is crucial to find out how good they are at managing projects. To that end, the project management maturity assessment concept was developed. However, getting a picture of the organization is only the first step. The second should be to analyze the results and, based on them, undertake appropriate activities in order to increase efficiency in project management. There are various models of project management maturity (PMM) assessment in different areas. In investigating current management trends, the knowledge management concept is one of the most important ones. Therefore, in author’s opinion the modern PMM model should definitely address the knowledge management area. In the article based on the world-wide empirical study of 400 companies, I discuss the PMM level in the knowledge management area. The assessment was done using the author’s PMM model which measured maturity in four areas: methods and tools, human resources, project environment and knowledge management. The investigated companies were from the machinery, construction and information technology branches. The major research effort was focused on the machinery industry as this sector of the economy is not well recognized in empirical research related to project management. Moreover, the main aim of the study was to compare Polish and foreign companies via an examination of diverse industries. The results of the study revealed that, in general, the foreign companies are at a higher PMM level in the knowledge management area than their Polish counterparts. This difference is discussed in the article. Among the industries, the most mature was information technology and this is also elaborated on. In addition, the study shows that the mean maturity level of all investigated companies is rather small. The reasons for that fact are explained and the implications for the companies are outlined.","PeriodicalId":172039,"journal":{"name":"Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133552044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corporate Takeovers and Economic Efficiency","authors":"B. Eckbo","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2340754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2340754","url":null,"abstract":"I review recent takeover research that advances our understanding of “who buys who” in the drive for productive efficiency. This research provides detailed information on text-based definitions of product market links between bidders and targets, the role of the supply chain and industrial networks in driving takeovers, target plant efficiency, and pre- and post-takeover investment in product innovation. Moreover, recent evidence adds to our understanding of “how firms are sold” (transaction efficiency). Almost half of takeovers involving public targets are initiated by the seller and not by the buyer. Targets are strongly averse to bidder toeholds, and the merger negotiation process strongly protects proprietary information. Takeover premiums leave traces of rational bidding strategies, including bid preemption and winner’s curse avoidance. Recent tests employing exogenous instrumentation of bidder valuations reject that bidder shares are systematically overpriced in all-stock bids and suggest that bidder synergy gains are much larger than previously thought.","PeriodicalId":172039,"journal":{"name":"Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130850005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Judgment of Garbage: End-of-Pipe Treatment and Waste Reduction","authors":"N. Dutt, Andrew A. King","doi":"10.1287/mnsc.2013.1827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2013.1827","url":null,"abstract":"Many scholars have argued that systems for treating waste impede organizations from preventing waste in the first place. They theorize that end-of-pipe EOP treatment diminishes the incentive to avoid creating waste in the production process and obscures the information necessary to devise prevention techniques. This prediction has been widely accepted, influencing both policy and practice, despite both a lack of supporting empirical evidence and the existence of a counterprediction. In this paper, we use data describing U.S. manufacturing establishments from 1991 to 2005 to test the connection between EOP treatment and waste reduction. Our findings show that EOP treatment is associated with an initial jump in reported waste, followed by ongoing reduction. We analyze these results by exploring mechanisms that may drive this relationship. For practitioners, our paper provides critical guidance about strategies for reducing waste. For scholars of environmental management, our paper provides new insight on when facilities accomplish “source reduction” of process waste. For broader management theories of operations and organizational design, our analysis provides new insight on boundary conditions for extrapolation from existing theories. Finally, our paper provides new guidance for the formulation of effective regulatory policy. \u0000 \u0000This paper was accepted by Christian Terwiesch, operations management.","PeriodicalId":172039,"journal":{"name":"Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127783099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching in Japan","authors":"A. Bernard, Toshihiro Okubo","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2347668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2347668","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores role of multi-product plants and product switching in the Japanese manufacturing sector. While a substantial body of work has explored the importance of the extensive margins of plant entry and exit in employment and output flows, only recently has research begun to examine the adjustment across products within establishments and its importance for plant and aggregate output and employment flows. Using a novel, annual plant-product data set covering all Japanese manufacturing plants with more than 4 employees from 1992 to 2006, we provide the first evidence on the role of multi-product plants in Japanese manufacturing and how the product mix and the plant mix have changed over time. Unlike previous studies we are able to track annual changes in the product mix. The period covers a major decline in manufacturing activity and we show that the mix of products and output shifted strongly towards larger multi-product plants that are part of multi-establishment manufacturing firms.","PeriodicalId":172039,"journal":{"name":"Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series","volume":"751 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132484889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Review of the Legal and Financial Implications of Going Private: What Shareholders, Boards, and Employees of Public Companies Need to Know","authors":"K. Burnett","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2100585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2100585","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to disentangle the various issues a public company should consider when answering the question: “to go or not to go private?” It provides a review of the literature with an eye towards coverage of the main questions a practitioner would ask. The article explores factors that are positively correlated with a company going private, as well as factors that are relevant to the going private decision. It is my hope that this work contributes to an improvement in the quality of debate among stakeholders at public companies on the subject of going private. I would be thrilled if a company made an informed decision to go private — or not to go private — in part because of the contents herein.","PeriodicalId":172039,"journal":{"name":"Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116169930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cause’s Attributes Influencing Consumer’s Purchasing Intention: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan","authors":"Jehanzaib Waqas","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2049302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2049302","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – One purpose of this paper is to examine several factors that potentially influence a consumer’s purchasing decision to participate in cause-related marketing (CRM) program in the Pakistani context. The other is to empirically test the hypothesized relationship between cause’s attributes and purchase intention in such environment.Design/Methodology/Approach – This paper develops a measure for exploring the cause’s attributes influencing consumer’s purchasing intention. One group of valid sample with 150 respondents is collected through questionnaire survey.Findings – The results show that the degree of cause’s participation for consumer, fit between the brand and the cause, cause importance, congruence between the firm’s product and the cause, cause proximity play an important role in consumers’ attitudes toward the product and firm and their intentions to purchase the advertised product and participate in the CRM campaign.Research limitations/Implications – The sample is random but a convenience sample in terms of geographic area that is the main limitation of this research. There was a lack of experimental control for the questionnaire investigation, so the quality of questionnaire cannot be ensured.Practical Implications – This research should help firms determine the best partners for strategic social alliances, and provide an advice on how to make them maximum participation, also should help current and potential consumers ascribe personality traits to nonprofit organizations and differentiate between nonprofits on the basis of the cause’s attributes. At the same time, this paper provides several interesting areas for future research that will further aid marketing managers to develop a more effective CRM campaign to fit with goals of corporate, which adds some valuable insights or new ideas to develop essential theory.Originality/Value – This paper offers interesting insight into the development of CRM campaigns, and explores the five variables: the degree of cause’s participation for consumer; fit between the brand and the cause; cause importance; congruence between the firm’s product and the cause; cause proximity also should influence consumer’s purchasing attitude, intention and decision behavior in the Pakistani context.","PeriodicalId":172039,"journal":{"name":"Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113968034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Much is a Reduction of Your Customers’ Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods","authors":"Gad Allon, A. Federgruen, M. Pierson","doi":"10.1287/MSOM.1110.0343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/MSOM.1110.0343","url":null,"abstract":"In many service industries, companies compete with each other on the basis of the waiting time their customers experience, along with other strategic instruments such as the price they charge for their service. The objective of this paper is to conduct an empirical study of an important industry to measure to what extent waiting time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food drive-thru restaurants in Cook County are estimated based on so-called structural estimation methods. Our results confirm the belief expressed by industry experts, that in the fast-food drive-thru industry customers trade off price and waiting time. More interestingly, our estimates indicate that consumers attribute a very high cost to the time they spend waiting.","PeriodicalId":172039,"journal":{"name":"Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116889065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tournament Qualification, Seeding and Selection Effciency: An Analysis of the PGA TOUR's FedExCup","authors":"Robert A. Connolly, Richard J. Rendleman","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1916234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1916234","url":null,"abstract":"Analytical descriptions of tournament selection efficiency properties are elusive for realistic tournament structures. For example, with more than four competitors, there are very few robust analytical tournament selection efficiency measures. Combining a Monte Carlo simulation with a statistical model of player skill and random variation in scoring, we estimate the seeding and selection efficiency of the PGA TOUR's FedExCup, a very complex multi-stage golf competition, which distributes $35 million in prize money, including $10 million to the winner. Our assessments of efficiency are based on traditional selection efficiency measures along with several new measures which focus on the ability of a given tournament structure to identify properly the relative skills of all tournament participants and to distribute efficiently all of the tournament's prize money. Using these measures, we also estimate the relative efficiency of several alternative formats for the FedExCup Finals. We conclude that despite its lack of transparency compared with alternative Finals formats, the present Finals format appears to be the most efficient using all selection efficiency measures.","PeriodicalId":172039,"journal":{"name":"Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129632238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Efficiency of Share-Voting Systems: Report on Sweden","authors":"B. Eckbo, Giulia Paone, Runa Urheim","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1651582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1651582","url":null,"abstract":"Institutional shareholders around the world increasingly use active share-voting to protect their portfolio investments and improve corporate governance. However, exercising voting rights involves costly and often arcane country-specific legal rules. This report on Sweden is one of a series examining the potential for increased harmonization of cross-border share-voting systems and proxy voting in the U.S. and Member States of the European Union (EU). The first report, on Italy, is in Eckbo, Paone and Urheim (2009). Our Swedish report describes the share-registration system and voting chain for publicly traded companies in Sweden. We highlight voting impediments and examine recent regulatory attempts to make the voting process both more efficient and conforming to the 2007 EU Shareholder Rights Directive. We also provide empirical evidence on how Swedish listed firms have adapted to Sweden's share-voting system.","PeriodicalId":172039,"journal":{"name":"Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122559367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Consumer Expectations and Culture: The Effect of Belief in Karma in India","authors":"P. Kopalle, D. Lehmann, J. Farley","doi":"10.1086/651939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/651939","url":null,"abstract":"In the customer expectations arena, relatively little attention has been paid to the impact on expectations of variation in cultural variables unique to a country. Here we focus on one country, India, and a major cultural influence there-the extent of belief in karma. Prior research in the United States suggests that disconfirmation sensitivity lowers expectations. Here we examine whether belief in karma and, consequently, having a long-term orientation, counteracts the tendency to lower expectations in two studies that measure and prime respondents' belief in karma. Results show that the extent of belief in karma, operating largely through its impact on long-run orientation, does moderate (decrease) the effect of disconfirmation sensitivity on expectations. These findings suggest that it is important to tailor advertising messages by matching them with customer expectations and their cultural determinants. (c) 2010 by JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH, Inc..","PeriodicalId":172039,"journal":{"name":"Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123684757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}