Recently added articles from Southern Business Review:
The Fortress and the Empire: A Marketing Strategy for the Professional Services Firm
Jul 01, 2008; ... Marketing of professional services was once seen as inappropriate or even unethical, but today professionals are free to promote their services in any way they choose (Markham and Carson 2005). Accountants, lawyers, management consultants and doctors are turning to marketing in increasing ...
Travel, Meal, & Entertainment Expense Deductions in U.S. Tax Court Cases
Jul 01, 2008; ... Travel and entertainment expenses for business have always been deductible. These expenses are considered an integral part of businesses maintaining client relationships and developing new potential clients. After all, business is about maintaining current clients and obtaining new ones ....
Dimensions of Supply Chain Security
Jul 01, 2008; ... In a recent column in The Wall Street Journal, executives were urged to focus on four priorities based on the events of the summer of 2007. At the top of the list was "Make supply-chain management a top priority." The story went on to say, "Don't wait for a crisis" (Hymowitz, 2007). Much of the ...
Cash Flows from In-Kind Charitable Contributions: They're Worth More than You Think!
Jul 01, 2008; ... What do you do? Sales have slumped dramatically. Inventory is just not moving. Additional expenditures on advertising seem to be throwing money into a black hole. It's almost as if you can't even give your inventory away, and an idea germinates. You actually consider giving away the merchandise ...
RISK LOVE AND THE FAVORITE-LONGSHOT BIAS: EVIDENCE FROM GERMAN HARNESS HORSE RACING
Oct 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Empirical studies of horse race betting in the U.S., the UK, and Australia have established the so called favorite-longshot bias. Studies find that on average, bets on longshots lose much more than do bets on favorites. This means that longshots are overbet and favorites are ...
ANTECEDENTS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS**
Oct 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT We analyze the importance of both the level and the type of two critical dimensions of human capital for the performance of management consultants, namely education and experience. We use both qualitative and quantitative data on client ratings of the performance of 50 senior ...
Flextime and Telecommuting: Examining Individual Perceptions
Oct 01, 2006; ... As individuals increasingly experience conflicts between their personal lives and the demands of the workplace, many employers offer alternative work arrangements that are designed to help workers achieve a better balance in their lives (Harris, 2003; Shamir & Salomon, 1985). Two such ...
Who's Running This Operation?
Oct 01, 2006; ... In 1999, the Bureau of the Census documented approximately 35,125 businesses in the 58-county region of southeast Georgia. Each of these businesses provides some combination of goods and services by transforming labor, capital, material, and information inputs into outputs that have value to ...
The Role of Human Resources in the Success of New Businesses
Oct 01, 2006; ... The academic and popular business press are flush with recurring articles on the factors associated with business success. Examples of business successes and failures abound, thus articles abound discussing the various causes and trends. Two decades ago, for example, the Yugo was introduced in ...
THE MARKET FOR LUXURY GOODS: THE CASE OF THE COMITÉ COLBERT1
Oct 01, 2006; ... Aspects of the Market for Luxury Goods: The Economics Literature Conspicuous Consumption Economists have considered the characteristics of luxury goods consumption behavior at least since the classic work of Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, first published in ...
The Paramour Problem Returns: A Smoking Bed?
Apr 01, 2006; ... A decade and a half ago, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a Policy Guidance statement (EEOC 1990) dealing with potential employer liability under Title VII (42 United States Code § 2000e-1 et seq.) for "sexual favoritism," what is sometimes called the "paramour problem." The ...
Workplace Theft: A Proposed Model and Research Agenda
Apr 01, 2006; ... Agreement is widespread that theft in the workplace is a serious problem (Greenberg, 2002, Weber, Kurke & Pentico, 2003). While employee theft has always been costly to businesses, the enhanced security climate in more recent times has made this topic more important than ever. While a great ...
Private Accounts and Social Security: The Issue of Risk
Apr 01, 2006; ... Proposals to allow individuals to establish "private accounts" with a portion of their Social Security withholding have generated intense debate. Whether such accounts are proposed as an alternative to, or an integral part of Social Security, the arguments for and against private accounts have ...
Coffee, Tea, or Me? Romance and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Apr 01, 2006; ... In the age of high powered lawsuits and the largest bankruptcy in U. S. history, companies cannot afford a misstep. Some of the larger settlements and newsworthy events continue to involve cases of romance and sexual harassment. One such example is the firing of Harry Stonecipher, the CEO of ...
Characteristics of Effective Leaders in Economic Development: An Exploratory Study
Oct 01, 2005; ... For years, significant attention has been given to the topic of leader effectiveness across a variety of situations. In a managerial context, most research almost exclusively focuses on the individual leader and leadership processes in a typical organization with paid employees. Similarly, ...
Generational Differences in Attitudes About Unions: A Segmented Dispositional Marketing Approach
Oct 01, 2005; ... Labor union membership as a percentage of the U.S. workforce continues to decline, down to 12.4 percent in 2004 compared to 12.9 percent in 2003. This downward trend is most notable when compared to 1983 data (the first year that comparable data are available), at which time membership stood at ...
Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Interest Rate and Exchange Rate
Oct 01, 2005; ... The G-8 Summit held at Sea Island, Georgia, on June 8-11, 2004, exemplified the increasing global integration of the United States economy.1 Every year, capital flows both out from (hereafter FDI) and into the United States (hereafter FDIUS) to facilitate global trade liberalization.2 The ...
Successful Strategies for Small-Sized U.S. Exporters of Consumer Products to Japanese Markets
Oct 01, 2005; ... In light of the recent recovery of the Japanese economy and the Japanese government's efforts to reduce or eliminate trade barriers for many manufacturing products, Japanese markets may offer large and potentially profitable opportunities for small-sized U.S. companies. Notwithstanding, many ...