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ADVANCED
MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
VOLUME 62
NUMBER 4 AUTUMN
1997
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Implementing Information Technology Innovations: The
Activity-Based Costing Example
During the past decade, managements have recognized the advantages of many new theories,
such as total quality management and just-in-time, but have not always found them easy to
implement. Likewise, activity ' y-based costing (ABC), a recent in, formation technology
(IT) innovation, has man ' N, supporters but fewer successful practitioners. To benefit
from the more accurate product cost data and performance measurement of ABC systems,
management must carefully, analyze their operations, educate and support the key people
involved, and provide active commitment.
Kip R. Krumwiede and Harold P. Roth
Reframing Strategic Risk
While the traditional finance and decision theories of' risk tire valuable, they may
result in misleading conclusions from a strategy, perspective. A strategic approach based
on contingency theory and the three core problems of managing offers a broader framework
for managers that encompasses the major dimensions of risk: entrepreneurial, competitive,
and operational.
Frank L. Winfrey and James L. Budd
Strategies for Individual Survival During a Corporate
Consolidation
In the past, year or so, hardly a day went by, without a report of a corporate merger,
acquisition, or internal downsizing or restructuring. The trends show no signs of abating.
For employees of the companies involved, such events tire traumatic - but the N, need not
be tragic. Using behaviors appropriate to each type of change, e.g., friendly and
unfriendly takeovers, management members may not only survive but thrive in the "new
" organization.
J. L. Boockholdt and Robert W. Service
Strategic Reengineering: An Internal Industry Analysis
Framework
No man is an island and, increasingly, no company or
industry conjunction profitably without some degree of intra-industry integration. Through
a model based on companies competing in major segments of the air transportation industry,
key relationships tire identified among industry segments in a way that reconciles
internal and external industry views. The model captures business processes, value chains,
(aid interactions that generate end products in order to isolate strategic process issues
and strategies to meet them.
Kenneth D. Pritsker
Employer Legal Liability for Employee Workplace Violence
With 20 people becoming homicide victims in the workplace
every week, businesses can hardly ignore this threat and its legal implications. Most such
homicides occur in large metropolitan areas, but business everywhere - particularly
smaller businesses - should understand their responsibilities and legal risk. Liability
arises primarily from the duty to provide a sale work-place and from common law negligence
principles - negligence in hiring and retention.
James W. Fenton, Jr., Donald E. Kelley, William N. Ruud,
and Juanita A. Bulloch
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