SUBJECT AREAS: Leveraged recapitalization, capital structure, compensation, internal control, performance evaluation.CASE SETTING: 1989, Packaging materials and systems industry.Situation: Less than a year after Sealed Air embarked on a program to improve manufacturing efficiency and product...

This paper examines how compensation systems can facilitate or hinder value creating change in organizations. It draws on ideas and evidence, both old and new, from theory and practice and examines four critical ways in which well-designed compensation systems create value in organizations....

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This article analyzes Total Quality Management as an innovation in organizational technology that can be used by companies to increase the productivity of both labor and capital. As an organizing technology, TQM has three distinguishing features: (1) it is science-based in the sense that...

SUBJECT AREAS: mergers and acquisitions; value creation; corporate governance; boards of directorsCASE SETTING: 1994; USA; pharmaceuticalsThis case series provides an opportunity to explore the factors influencing the market for corporate control, and the boardroom dynamics associated with hostile...

SUBJECT AREAS: mergers and acquisitions; value creation; corporate governance; boards of directors.CASE SETTING: 1994; USA; pharmaceuticals.Case No: 9-897-048, American Cyanamid: (A)-Board Response to a Hostile Takeover OfferCase No: 9-897-064, American Cyanamid: (B)-Management's Response to the (A)...

This document contains a collection of 99 exam questions from the last 20 years of the Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations (CCMO) course. They are given to students at the end of the semester as a vehicle to aid their study for the final exam. These questions are a...