Thanks to new technologies and rapidly increasing Web access, the selling of Johnson and Johnson products have went up dramatically. Last year, very few European retailers were taking orders on the Web, but this year has seen phenomenal growth. One ...

The manageral system in developed countries is facing major challenges as a consequence of the revolution of communication and information technology. Relationships in modem societies are transformed by emerging new means of creating, processing, ...

Ironically, shopping itself has only rarely been the focus of work in consumption in any of these three stages; commentators on consumption have rarely paid much attention to shopping. ?ven studies of department stores and shopping malls devote ...

Professional sports, unlike most other industries in America, have provided with the opportunity to succeed. One possible focus of such a determination may be the present economic situation faced by NBA players. The top NBA players, and some not so ...

Over the past decade, steady progress has been made on bottom-up, low-level man- management instrumentation of network and computing environments. And more recently, new service management systems have come on the market that work from the top down ...

Manufacturers and grocery retailers are increasingly forming alliances with providers of logistics services in an attempt both to improve delivery for their customers and to reduce their own logistics costs. ?ven so, information on the logistics ...

Children are considered by many one of the most vulnerable of all media audiences. After a discussion of the uniqueness of child audiences and commercials' effects on them, this article addresses the values of advertisers who purposely and ...

To help reduce stress and improve the quality of life, many organizations are becoming more involved in wellness programs. With increasing health care costs, many employers are concentrating on disease prevention and health promotion. By putting a ...

The search for excellence begins with ethics. ?very time a person chooses between alternatives, the choice is based on assumptions that lie at the heart of a moral code. The code is grounded in values that provide the framework for principled ...

"Leadership," writes the historian James MacGregor Burns, "is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth." (3) Indeed, there are untold volumes on leadership. There are business chronicles, stories of great ...

Failure to anticipate change can be fatal. As any chess player, military strategist, or athlete can tell you, being anticipatory gives you great competitive advantage. But what is the secret to developing anticipatory prowess, and how do you use it ...

Although this is useful - it contains many key concepts - and saves us plugging through hundreds of definitions, it describes what PR does rather than what it is. Or, indeed, should be. described the attempts to define public relations as largely ...

Refocusing has become one of the major strategies pursued by large organizations in the 1990s. Prior research in the area of upper echelons (top management team) leadership has revealed that there is a strong relationship between top management team ...

Effective managment is dependent on all organizational members, but particularly those who control the organization. CeOs, as found in the explanatory study of the models, are almost always dominant coalition members. The power and credibility of ...

Relatively few companies are able to start with a 'clean sheet of paper' as far as Internet operations are concerned. For most companies, setting up Internet operations involves a significant degree of cultural and structural change. It also usually ...