Comparing The Affects Of Management Practices On Organizational Performance Between For-Profit And Not-For-Profit Corporations In Southeast Wisconsin

The need to demonstrate the effectiveness of any business or organization worthy of attracting resources and transforming them into valued products/services is an entity’s primary mission. A variety of methods have evolved over time to measure a for-profit enterprise’s performance. Economists have typically studied how well a firm manages the factors of production under its control while accountants and financial analysts scrutinize a variety of analytical tests to determine current and future performance. Not-for-profit organizations have adopted many of the commercial sector’s economic and accounting/financial techniques to gauge their performance. However, an issue that plagues the analysis of for-profit and not-for-profit businesses is the effect that management has on an enterprise’s performance. While economists and accountants can account for nearly all of the factors of production, the discipline cannot calculate the effect of management on agency performance. Considering the roles and economic impact that both for-profit and increasingly not-for-profit organizations/non-governmental organizations (NPO or NGO) it is vital to assess how these organizations are managed and what if any effect management practices have on their organizational performance. The purpose of this quantitative research investigation was to study the affect of 18 management practices defined as “operations (three practices), monitoring (five practices), targets (five practices), and incentives (five practices)” (Bloom & Van Reenen, 2007, pp. 1393 - 1397) had on the performance of for-profit firms and NPOs in southeast, Wisconsin. The basis of this research project was derived from two studies. One study (Keller, 2009) was conducted on for-profit corporations in late 2008 and the second that Keller conducted on NPOs in 2010. The examination revealed that management practices did not have a statistically significant impact on the economic performance of for-profit firms (with the exception of one ownership type) and a strongly significant influence on not-for-profit organizations

Running the United States-Mexican Border: 1909 through the Present

A very large number of films have been and continue to be made about the border by both the United States and Mexican film industries. This is due primarily to the highly unusual nature of the United States-Mexico border itself, and because of various factors ranging from the Mexican Revolution of 1910, to the emergence of Westerns as the primary product of the United States film industry, and other economic, sociocultural, and technological reasons. This study is dedicated to an overview of the border films and strives to explain some of the major cultural, technological, historical, and economic factors that spurred them. It is broadly divided into three sections. The first establishes the conventions of the border in the popular mind, focusing attention on the role first of mass-produced dime novels, and subsequently of popular films. The second section reviews some of the most salient of those border conventions. The third shows how contemporary Chicano/Latino border films function to subvert and debunk those same conventions. Numerous films from American and Mexican studios and by independent Chicano producers made between 1909 through the present are cited and reviewed in historical context

Examining if There is a Relationship Between CEO Compensation and the Stock Price and Net Income of Publically Traded Corporations in the State of Wisconsin, USA

Calculating the economic value that a CEOcontributes to the worth of a corporation is seemingly a mootpoint. The standard method of calculation is the use of financialratios, the firm’s stock price and to what degree were the overallobjectives of the enterprise accomplished. The purpose of thisquantitative research project was to investigate if any significantrelationship existed between the annual salaries of the CEOs of48 publically traded firms in the State of Wisconsin, USA andincreases/decreases in the price of their corporations’ stock priceand net revenue. The author of this study selected the State ofWisconsin as the basis for the study due to the number ofFortune 1000 firms (25 the 16th highest in the United States) andFortune 500 companies (10). Some prominent firms includeFiserv, Harley-Davidson, Johnson Controls, Kohl’s, Manpower,Oshkosh Corporation and Rockwell Automation. The outcomesof this research revealed that there was no statistically significantrelationship between increases/decreases in the price ofWisconsin’s publically traded corporations’ stock price and netrevenue in 2008. However, in 2010 while there was no statisticallysignificant correlation between the compensation of corporateexecutives of 48 publically traded firms in Wisconsin andincreases/decreases in the price of their corporations’ stock pricethere was a statistically significant correlation between thecompensation of these executives and the net incomes of theirfirms. Finally, three Wisconsin CEOs were ranked among the top250 highest CEO/Pay ratios in America