Recently added articles from Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship:
Message from the Editor
Oct 01, 2008; ... Welcome to the October, 2008 issue of JAME. We are pleased once again to offer a diverse assortment of articles incorporating international, service industry, and entrepreneurial perspectives. We begin with "Ownership Status and the Prevalence of Managerial Responsibilities and ...
Ownership Status and the Prevalence of Managerial Responsibilities and Functions: A Study among Managers in the Maltese Service Industry
Oct 01, 2008; ... Executive Summary Several studies have suggested that to comprehend managerial work, one has to consider it from different perspectives simultaneously. This is why our contribution builds upon a multi-dimensional model wherein previous management models are integrated. It sheds new light ...
Measuring Managerial Effectiveness in Handling Pay Cuts
Oct 01, 2008; ... Executive Summary In this paper we compare job satisfaction data from a Mexican factory before and after a pay cut of over fifty percent. Probably because of a lack of external opportunities, turnover intentions did not increase following the pay cut. However, morale appears to have been ...
Restaurant Revenue Management Practice
Oct 01, 2008; ... Executive Summary In the framework of revenue management, price and service duration are managed to maximize revenue generated from a small business's fixed capacity. This paper provides large sample empirical evidence on the prevalence of revenue management among small full-service ...
An Empirical Analysis of the Entrepreneurial Orientation Scale
Oct 01, 2008; ... Executive Summary The objective of this study is to assess the psychometric properties of the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) scale. Factor analysis, F-test, and correlation analysis were employed to assess reliability, dimensionality, and validity. The results suggest that the scale is ...
Analyzing the Social Responsibility of Small, Family-Owned Businesses: A Research Agenda
Oct 01, 2008; ... Executive Summary The small, family-owned business is an important, yet under-researched, object of study. In particular, the social responsibility efforts of these businesses have not been given sufficient attention in the literature, as academics have focused more on large, ...
Spiral Up: And Other Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives
Oct 01, 2008; ... Spiral Up: And Other Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives Jane C. Linder AMACOM 2008 254 pages, Softcover, $16.47 Have you ever wondered why a so-called "best management practice" produces mediocre results? What if a team wanted to do something truly spectacular? What ...
Online Marketing Heroes
Oct 01, 2008; ... Online Marketing Heroes Michael Miller Wiley Publishing, Inc., (2008) 302 pages, Hardcover, $24.99 In today's market, companies face more intense competition than ever before. With the driving forces of the economy headed toward globalization and instant access of information, the ...
Community: The Structure of Belonging
Oct 01, 2008; ... Community: The Structure of Belonging Peter Block Berrett-Koehler (2008) 238 pages, Hardcover, $26.95 With the presence of mind that made Flawless Consulting one of the best selling books of its genre and the quality of thought that was revealed in Stewardship, Peter Block's newest work, ...
The Leadership Advantage: How the Best Companies Are Developing Their Talent to Pave the Way for Future Success
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Leadership Advantage: How the Best Companies Are Developing Their Talent to Pave the Way for Future Success Robert M. Fulmer and Jared L. Bleak AMACOM (2008) 272 pages, Softcover, $18.45 Great leaders deliver great results. Truly, organizations with strong leaders and superior ...
Internet Riches: The Simple Money-Making Secrets of Online Millionaires
Oct 01, 2008; ... Internet Riches: The Simple Money-Making Secrets of Online Millionaires Scott Fox American Management Association (AMA) , 2008 SoftCOVer, $12.21 Scott Fox in his book written, Internet Riches: The Simple Money-Making Secrets of Online Millionaires, presents a very well, easy to read and ...
A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher
Oct 01, 2008; ... A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher William A. Cohen, Ph.D. AMACOM, 2008 272 pages, Softcover, $9.99 As a philosopher, historian, family man, and professor, Peter Drucker is hailed as the Father of Modern Management. Drucker believed that our ...
Bridging the Gap between Service-Learning and Social Entrepreneurship: An Interview with the Founders of P:ear
Oct 01, 2008; ... Executive Summary P:ear, an acronym for (program: education, art, recreation) is a highly acclaimed, award winning, non-profit organization located in Portland, Oregon. Its unique example of social entrepreneurship provides a transformational approach where homeless youth engage in a ...