A RESOURCE-BASED PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN CAPITAL LOSSES, HRM INVESTMENTS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE JASON D. SHAW,* TAE-YOUN PARK, and EUGENE KIM 1 Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. 2 Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. 3 Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlant...

We investigate the contribution of co-worker-specific investments to the value of employment relationships between senior executives and firms. Given the difficulty in directly measuring co-worker-specific human capital, we take an indirect approach by analyzing the change in the composition of top management teams when a key member of the team (the CEO) departs. Our empirical analysis establis...

© Systems Modelling for Economic Analyses of Security Investments: A Case Study in Identity and Access Management Adrian Baldwin, Marco Casassa Mont, David Pym, Simon Shiu HP Laboratories HPL-2009-173 security analytics, identity management, economics Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a key issue for systems security managers such as CISOs. More specifically, it is a difficult problem to ...

Executive Summary/Abstract: Sharing high quality information, between inter and intra company supply chain partners, is critical for companies that want to achieve the full benefit of investments made in information technology for supply chain management.

Valuing natural capital is fundamental to measuring sustainability. The United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, and other agencies have called for inclusion of the value of natural capital in sustainability metrics, such as inclusive wealth. Much has been written about the importance of natural capital, but consistent, rigorous valuation approaches compatible with the pricing of tradi...

The threat of information security breaches is omnipresent. Large organizations such as Sony or Lockheed Martin were recently attacked and lost confidential customer information. Besides targeted attacks, virus and malware infections, lost or stolen laptops and mobile devices, or the abuse of the organizational IT through employees, to name but a few, also put the security of assets in jeopardy...

Pallet management, which involves direct and reverse logistic models, may represent a critical activity for logistics provider firms. Pallets are needed in order to ship products from the producers/distributors to the retailers. Recently, pilot projects have demonstrated that performances of pallet management system could be improved by an advance tracking system based on Radio Frequency IDenti...

Approaches that CFOs and CIOs may consider when determining how to gain the most value from IT investments at the least cost include: Portfolio review. Contract review and negotiation. Contract negotiation. Analyses of IT spend, return, labor productivity, and strategic projects. Lifecycle management. Data management. Taking advantage of crisis.

according to several reports, in spite of huge investment on customer relationship management (crm), risk of implementing such projects is high. one of failure factors is having no method to assess crm success comprehensively. nowadays, classic financial methods are common ways for assessing marketing and crm initiatives. but, the mentioned models are unsuitable to assess investments like crm t...