THE TERM TEAMS is used heavily in industry today, often with little more than a hope behind it. However, as companies strive for greater productivity and responsiveness to market changes, effective teams often play a central role in initiating organizational change. Such real teams may occur in any part of the business, but this article focuses on the particular issues arising in using teams in...

T he potentially informative relationship between Y chromosomes and patrilinearly inherited surnames has led to a major expansion in the number of commercial companies offering Y chromosomal DNA polymorphism analysis to members of the public; because of the geographical specificity of Y chromosomal types, many companies also offer to deduce ‘‘ancestry’’. As the number of markers used in these t...

Mergers and acquisitions have been studied extensively, the reasons for them and how well they perform, but the studies have often focused on large public companies. The goal of this study was to find out if the reasons for mergers are the same for small companies in the software industry, as they are for large companies, and how well these mergers perform. To answer these questions I studied a...

We analyzed the privacy policies of 75 online tracking companies with the goal of assessing whether they contain information relevant for users to make privacy decisions. We compared privacy policies from large companies, companies that are members of self-regulatory organizations, and nonmember companies and found that many of them are silent with regard to important consumer-relevant practice...

We analyzed the privacy policies of 75 online tracking companies with the goal of assessing whether they contain information relevant for users to make privacy decisions. We compared privacy policies from large companies, companies that are members of self-regulatory organizations, and nonmember companies and found that many of them are silent with regard to important consumer-relevant practice...

Loyalty is a positive attitude from plasma members (chicken farmers) towards the core company in cooperative partner relationship. Loyal will make repeated collaborations, refuse to cooperate with other companies, even recommend companies that are invited breeders. This research was conducted at PT Kasi Garuda Bali, nucleus-plasma partnership on broiler farms, involving all (40 members) as resp...

I hope this Blast finds each of you well and enjoying your summer. Many of us are busy screening our dance company members (Dance/USA Annual Post-Hire Health Screen for Professional Dancers) as they begin rehearsals for the next year. Several companies will also begin a trial of a common surveillance tool for tracking injuries and costs. This begins to move dance companies towards adapting simi...

Information sharing has been cited as one of major means of improving supply chain performance. It allows companies to better coordinate their activities with their supply chain partners and generate improved performance. This paper reports results from a survey of information sharing practices in Australian manufacturing companies. The results indicate that the level of coordination between me...

Nowadays small and medium enterprises try to develop new competitive advantages in order to access global markets. Virtual Industry Clusters (VIC) are an alternative for these companies, in such a way, that the companies can joint forces and competencies in the development of Virtual Enterprises (VE). Once the VICs are created, a structured process that manage the members’ core competencies, al...