The decentralization of organizational decision authority has been shown to be complementary to Information Technology (IT) in prior research. We draw from the information processing view of organizations, the IT and de/centralization debate, and organizational learning theory to argue that IT...

Gaining competitive advantages by the running of well-founded measures in terms of management became, in all fields of activity, a condition of permanence and resistance on the market for organizations of all kinds. In such circumstances professional management tools takes multiple meanings, the...

Gaining competitive advantages by the running of well-founded measures in terms of management became, in all fields of activity, a condition of permanence and resistance on the market for organizations of all kinds. In such circumstances professional management tools takes multiple meanings, the...

The marketing strategy’s role is to define the organization’s attitude towards its environment and behavior in contrast with environment modifications. A marketing strategy expresses a corporation’s option for a certain path chosen out of many others. Completing a strategy needs a factor...

Examinations of racial discrimination hinge upon the ability of the researcher to accurately measure worker productivity. To overcome this difficulty, researchers have utilized data from professional sports. Unlike many industries, professional sports provide an abundance of performance measures...

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed effects, where we are exploiting the high...

The NFL's expansion brings football to the Carolinas. Speculation on what kind of impact it will have on the local economy ranges from rosy to overrated.

With 9.5 percent of all U.S. golf courses, the Fifth District has seen the greener side of golf. Residents, however, worry about potential traps.