The Firm

companies across the board. According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management, the profession's largest association, the head count at the average HR department fell from 13 in 2007 to nine in 2008. "HR departments are under pressure like never before," says Steve Miranda, the society's global HR and integration officer. As much of what was once HR's domain increasingly gets outsourced, human resources is regrouping to help show top management how it can add to the…

THE ECOMMERCE CHECKOUT REPORT A Quantitative Look at the Tactics of the Top 100 Retailers 2 The Ecommerce Checkout Report Ecommerce Checkout: A Quantitative Look at the Tactics of the Top 100 Online Retailers Once shoppers enter the checkout line in a physical store, they are almost certain to buy. Why isn’t that true online? We studied the checkout processes of 100 major retailers, in four major categories, to see how their use of 23 different checkout tactics related…

Web 2.0 guy Mark Zuckerberg is: during the weeks he spent working on Facebook as a Harvard sophomore, he didn’t have time to study for a course he was taking, “Art in the Time of Augustus,” so he built a website containing all of the artwork in class and pinged his classmates to contribute to a communal study guide. Within hours, the wisdom of crowds produced a sort of custom Cliff Notes for the course, and after reviewing the web based crib sheet, he aced the test. Turns out he didn’t…

fundamental para a evolução de ambas as disciplinas. ABSTRACT This article analyzes the convergence between business strategy and organizational theory, by making a detailed comparative study of four theories focusing competitive advantage phenomena. These theories include the strategic positioning school, the resource-based view, the market processes and the dynamic competencies theory. We conclude the convergence between organizational theory and business strategy is a…

Market Competition and Share Prices: The Case of the Airbus-Boeing Duopoly1 Nadine Galy Toulouse Business School 20 Bd Lascrosses 31068 Toulouse Cedex 07 Tel : 05-61-29-49-51 Fax : 05-6-29-49-94 n.galy@esc-toulouse.fr Laurent Germain Toulouse Business School l.germain@esc-toulouse.fr November 2007 Abstract There is an extensive literature dealing with the share price reaction of competing companies within the same sector upon the announcement of important information. Our…

The Global City: introducing a Concept SASKIA SASSEN Professor of Sociology University of Chicago EACH PHASE IN THE LONG history ofthe world economy raises specific questions about the particular conditions that make it possible. One ofthe key properties ofthe current phase is the ascendance of information technologies and the associated increase in the mobility and liquidity of capital. There have long been cross-border economic processes—flows of capital, labor, goods, raw…

Hypermarcas, the São Paulo-based firm where Mattos is CFO. Expanding the Hypermarcas footprint outside Brazil is "not a short-term objective," he says. After all, he notes, there's enough opportunity to be chasing at home, and any international attempt to replicate Hypermarcas's success -- it now has a portfolio of nearly 200 brands and 4,000 products -- wouldn't "add much in terms of synergies." But just shy of its tenth birthday, the firm has, by many measures, already cracked the…

summary This is the fifth edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). The EIS is the instrument developed by the European Commission, under the Lisbon Strategy, to evaluate and compare the innovation performance of the Member States. The EIS 2005 includes innovation indicators and trend analyses for all 25 EU Member States, as well as for Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, the US and Japan. The list of indicators and the methodology for calculating the…

FACULDADE DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO DE TERESINA CURSO: BACHARELADO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO DISCIPLINA: PLANEJAMENTO OPERACIONAL PROFESSOR: ALLEN ARAÚJO ALUNO: GUSTAVO BATISTA FREIRE THÉ PERÍODO: 6º NOITE TURMA: AD6P02 Teresina-PI Novembro de 2011 Definição Pode-se definir EVA como Valor Econômico Agregado – é uma metodologia de gerenciamento financeiro. Uma medida da criação ou destruição de riqueza. Sendo positivo, indica que a operação, no período, apresentou…

custos de transação - direitos de propriedade - contratos THEORY OF THE FIRM IN LAW & ECONOMICS Abstract: The brazilian studies in Law & Economics are growing in themes like property rights, tort law, criminal law, antitrust law etc. The theory of the firm, despite its extreme application both in law and economics, doesn´t have the same amount of studies under a brazilian perspective. This text is an attempt to gather some of the most important economics views † Mestre e Doutor em…