Managing the trade-off implications of global supply

The cost versus response trade-off is a growing logistics issue due to many markets being increasingly characterized by demand uncertainty and shorter product life cycles. This is exacerbated further with supply increasingly moving to low cost global sources. However, the poor response implications of global supply are often not addressed or even acknowledged when undertaking such decisions. Consequently, various practical approaches to minimising, postponing or otherwise managing the impact of the demand uncertainty are often only adopted retrospectively. Even though such generic solutions are documented through case examples we lack effective tools and concepts to support the proactive identification and resolution of such trade-offs. This paper reports on case-based theory building research, involving three cases from the UK and USA used in developing a conceptual model with associated tools, in support of such a process

Managing the Moral Implications of Advice in Informal Interaction

What does advice giving look like among family members? Most conversation analytic research on advice has been in institutional settings, which constrain what speakers can do. Here we analyze advice in the apparently freer environment of telephone calls between mothers and their young adult daughters. We concentrate on how the advice is received. Our analysis shows that the position of “advice recipient” is a potentially unwelcome identity to occupy because it implies one knows less than the advice giver and indeed that one may be somehow at fault. Advice can be resisted, but choosing to do so seems to depend on what the interactional costs would be. We discuss the implications for studying advice and promoting advice acceptance as well as the way relationality more generally can be constituted in talk

Managing Human Resources in Higher Education: The Implications of a Diversifying Workforce

Human resource capacity has become a critical issue for contemporary universities as a result of increasing pressures from governments and global markets. As a consequence, particularly where the institution is the employer, changes are occurring in the expectations of staff and institutions about employment terms and conditions, as well as the broader aspects of working life, and this is affecting academic and professional identities. Even under different regimes, for instance, in Europe, with the government in effect as the employer, institutions are giving greater attention to ways in which they might respond to these developments. This paper considers key issues and challenges in human resource management in higher education, and some of the implications of these changes

Introduction to the special issue: Social construct within an information society

Managing Information Systems (IS) is increasingly complex, as multiple stakeholders try to communicate, act, and interact for social and business gain. Understanding and managing these complex stakeholder relations and the contingencies of successful communication among culturally diverse stakeholder groups are some of the major challenges for professional communicators in the third millennium. Such challenges have important implications for communication between user and developer groups as training and education of the users becomes more complex. In an effort to connect information system practice with communication theory, this special issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication looks at information systems as social constructs of an information societ

Success factors for managing purchasing groups: an empirical survey

In this article, we identify success factors for managing small and intensive purchasing groups by comparing successful and unsuccessful Dutch purchasing groups in a large-scale survey. Transaction costs economics and social exchange theory are used as theoretical frameworks for our broad empirical investigation. We found that the success factors studied that are related to interorganizational trust, the formality of the group, and uniformity of the group members are not success factors for managing purchasing groups. For our data set, the most important success factors are no enforced participation, sufficient total contribution of efforts, all members contribute knowledge, all members rarely change representatives, fair allocation of savings, and communication. We discuss the academic and practical implications of the success factors found

Risk management of commercial banks in Kosovo

Purpose: This research elaborated on the management of the activity of banks operating in Kosovo. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study provided for the secondary service by reporting goals for the four largest banks in Kosovo. Findings: Problems of commercial banks of Kosovo in managing risks for establishing concepts for managing the activity, defects of the activity management system and backwardness of the research and method of managing the activity. Practical Implications: With the continued development of the financial sector, commercial banks in Kosovo have formed a series of strict risk management systems, while the risk management of commercial banks in Kosovo is still in its infancy. As Kosovo's financial industry is opening up to the outside world, Kosovo's banking industry faces increasingly fierce competition and the risks are also more complex. In this case, understanding the level of risk management of commercial banks in Kosovo and improving the level of risk management is a necessary topic. Originality/Value: The results of the study realize a series of meaningful suggestions are put forward and help to improve the risk management level and control the risks effectively.peer-reviewe

Operating leverage: an underutilized risk management tool

Operating leverage refers to the relation of a firm’s fixed to variable costs. This relation can be used to support specific business strategies, enhance growth opportunities as well as manage systematic risk. All of these aspects can impact firm value and performance. This article is intended to stimulate some additional thought on the implications of operating leverage and nudge CFO’s into more actively managing their cost structure.Accepted manuscrip

An institutional perspective on managing migrant workers in the North of England

Despite advances made in our understanding of migrant worker issues, analysis of the literature reveals disconnections between the policy and practice of 'managed migration' across three fundamental levels of the state (e.g. public institutions at the EU, national and regional levels), corporate (e.g. employers and unions) and community (e.g. migrant social networks) levels. Consequently, this has implications on corporate and community aspects that often escape deeper analytical scrutiny. Concomitantly, the literature often assumes that policy decisions at the state level are necessarily homogeneous, and fails to account for the local specificities that could exist in this area. This research therefore sought to investigate the interplay between state, corporate and community levels in managing migrant workers across three regions in the North of England, and explore its implications on managing migrant worker employment in construction. The key research questions examined include the critical issues confronted by state, corporate and community actors in terms of framing migrant worker issues, and the nature of existing interactions between these stakeholders in terms of managing migrant workers in each of the three regions. Cross-regional comparisons were also considered in this research. Through interviewing key participants, it was found that subtle differences exist in regional government actors' response to the impacts of migration through their policy formation. It was also noted that interactions between the three levels vary substantially cross the three regions, and the tendency for stronger relationships to be forged between government and corporate actors where economic imperatives are concerned, with weaker and more ad hoc connections made between stakeholders across the three levels where social policy is concerned. It was concluded that any migration policy cannot be viewed as stand-alone, since empirical analysis across the three regions demonstrate the intertwining dimensions of linking migration policy with social and employment concerns

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Includes: The Changing Relationship Between Federal, State and Local Governments, by Tim Penny; The Implications of Changing Federalism: County View, by Barbara Sheen Todd; The Implications of Changing Federalism State View, by Tom Stinson; Shaping National Values: A Non-Profit Perspective, by David Mathews; The Role of Religion in Public Policy Debate, by Gary Farley; Does the Press Shape or Reflect National Values? by Hasso Hering; What Does it Mean? by Daryll Ray; Implications of the 1996 Farm Bill-Comments, by Chuck Hassebrook; Implications of the 1996 Farm Bill-Another Comment, by John M. Schnittker; The Changing Work Force and Implications for Work and Family, by Cali Williams; Work-Life: An Interplay of Issues, by Patricia Hendel; Forms of Property Rights and the Impacts of Changing Ownership, by Bonnie McCay; Common Property Issues and Alaska's Bering Sea Communities, by Larry Merculieff; Maine's Lobster Fishery - Managing a Common Property Resource, by James WilsonAgricultural and Food Policy,