Why are some organizations better suited to handling problems than others? Why do some firms seem much more adaptive than others? Phin Upham examines scholarship on these questions and provides some answers. There are many views in organizational theory which can explain why some firms are better at doing certain things than others, why […]
Firm Excellence
The resource based view of the firm has received a lot of attention in the past few years. Phin Upham discusses its strengths and weaknesses. The knowledge based view builds on the capabilities view and adds crucial and distinct elements. The resource based view emphasizesvaluable, rare, imperfectly imitable, and without common, imitable, or strategically equivalent substitutes […]
NFL 2009 Week 2 Preview: Important Division Games: Hispanic Heritage Month:
NFL 2009: PREVIEW WEEK-2 NFL GAMES 2009 Week 2 NFL Preview 09/17/2009 IMPORTANT DIVISION GAMES HIGHLIGHT WEEK 2 It’s only Week 2, but already there are key division games! “Games within your division are never easy,” says New York Giants head coach TOM COUGHLIN, whose team defeated NFC East foe Washington last week and will […]
The Great Leveling, Phase 1
The guy interviewed on NPR this day said that once our “credit crunch” is resolved in America, people will race out and buy homes. He’s wrong, as are economists who believe this. Rapidly increasing numbers of consumers are finding themselves irreparably strapped financially — and market profits dominoes have already begun to fall. But this […]
RISING BY RESOLUTION
RISING BY RESOLUTION Workers who make career resolution, and create a plan to make them happen, can see benefits that pay of for years. Only 12 percent of workers made career-related resolutions at the beginning of last year, but nearly three –quarters of those who did achieve their goals by the end of the […]