Strategic Organization – SO! – three years out and running hard!

Strategic Organization

This article looks at how a negative third-party quality signal, in the form of external monitoring of firm performance by an investor group, prompts a response from both institutional investors and the firms publicly identified as poor performers. Using a sample of 93 firms placed on the Focus List of the Council of Institutional Investors from 2000 to 2005 and a comparison group of 96 firms i...

Architectural Mismatch: Why Reuse Is So Hard

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Why Is Cartographic Generalization So Hard?

Why Is Cartographic Generalization So Hard? Andrew U. Frank Department for Geoinformation and Cartography Gusshausstrasse 27-29/E-127-1 A-1040 Vienna, Austria [email protected]

What Makes Measuring Software So Hard?

41 address those needs—thereby making measurement more appealing. While the disparity discussed here involves measurement, it applies to all areas of software process improvement. For example, the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model for Software is silent on two of the three strategies of high-performing organizations—customer intimacy and product innovation. Like traditi...

Why make diversity so hard to achieve?