American Journal of Business: Volume 12 Issue 1

Information Systems in Business Process Reengineering: An Exploratory Survey of Issues

Hilbert K. Schultz, Michael A. Eierman

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the radical, cross‐functional redesign of the operating practices usedby organizations to achieve certain outcomes. While BPR has received…

Self‐Managing Teams, Quality of Work Life, and Productivity: A Field Study

Dean Elmuti, Yunus Kathawala

The impact of participation in a self‐managed teams program on employee quality of work life attitudes, and on productivity and quality was studied among employees in a…

Commercial Sales in Cable Television: An Overview and a Linear Model

Jagu P. Aiyer, Jayant Rajgopal

This paper deals with the sales of commercial advertisements in the cable television industry. It describes the dynamics of the process, and develops the notion of an audience…

Management Forecasting: Survey Findings and Business Implications

Nada R. Sanders

Accurate forecasting is one of the most critical issues for business planning. Knowing how best to generate forecasts and how others are performing this function is important…

Managing the Costs of Power

Lane Tracy

Executives generally desire more power because it is useful. Business firms like wise try to gain power overeach other. Yet power also has costs that should be considered and…

Communication Training in Corporate Settings: Lessons and Opportunities for the Academe

Thaddeus McEwen

Today, communication skills are among the most popular content areas in employee training. This survey of training managers examined the status of communication training in…

Women’s Advancement in the Accounting Profession: Consideration of Person‐Centered and Organization‐Centered Explanations

Janet S. Omundson, Richard G. Schroeder, Mary B. Stevens

Despite the entry of large numbers of women into the accounting profession over the last decade, few women have reached top management levels. Two alternative paradigms that…

International Cultural Diversity and the Design of Management Accounting Systems

Peter C. Brewer

This article uses Geert Hofstede’s taxonomy of work‐related cultural values to examine the relationship between international cultural diversity and the practice of management…