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Diversity management focuses upon an organization's success in understanding and attending to the needs of its workforce--a workforce that in recent years has become diverse not only in age and gender but also in race, culture, and ethnicity. The interdisciplinary nature of the treatment teams in substance abuse treatment programs lends itself to exploration of diversity management practices to improve the organization's relationship with its workers. The purpose of this paper is to explore diversity management within the therapeutic community offering organizational meta-cultural competency as skill sets needed for the social work manager. KEYWORDS diversity management, therapeutic communities, substance abuse treatment, meta-cultural competency, organizational meta-cultural competency DOI: 10.1080/03643107.2010.481181

The study aims to establish intermediate goal achievement as a mediate variable linking integration decisions and acquisition performance, thereby reducing causal ambiguity. The results indicate that two intermediate goals - internal reorganization and market expansion fully mediate the relationship between integration decisions and acquisition performance.

The moderating effects of internal and external factors - top management team (TMT) members' colocation and environmental uncertainty on the TMT diversity-firm performance relationship is evaluated. Results confirmed the association between colocation of TMT members and environmental uncertainty on intrapersonal functional diversity and firm performance.

ABSTRACT The paper presents an investigation of the structural characteristics of firms with differing strategic orientations, as conceptualized by Miles & Snow (1978). The associated relationships to perceived performance are [...]

The literature on network effects has popularized a hypothesis that competition between incompatible technologies results in the 'winner-take-all' outcome. For the survival of the firm in this sort of competition, the installed base has been emphasized. We argue that the validity of this hypothesis depends on how customers interact with one another (e.g., if they exchange advice or files). In some interaction networks, customers influenced by their acquaintances may adopt a lagging technology even when a lead technology has built a large installed base. The presence of such a local bias facilitates the persistence of incompatibilities. When local bias cannot be sustained in other interaction networks, one technology corners the market. Our study suggests that overemphasizing the installed base, while ignoring network structure, could mislead practitioners. Key words: network externalities; network; increasing returns; technology; complexity, 1. Introduction The literature on network effects has had considerable impact on managerial practices recently (Farrell and Klemperer 2001). It has indicated that, in a market that demonstrates network effects, [...]

Entrepreneurship has been recognized as an important factor contributing to firm success. Despite the potential benefit of corporate entrepreneurship to sustain the family firm across generations, corporate entrepreneurship has been [...]

The importance of justice perceptions in fostering positive job attitudes and value-creating behaviors in organizations is well established in the literature. Despite this, only a handful of studies have addressed [...]

This article seeks to link the domains of corporate governance, investment policies, competitive asymmetries, and sustainable capabilities. Conditions such as concentrated ownership, lengthy tenures, and profound business expertise give some [...]

Fundamental assumptions of any theory of the family firm are that family firms will behave in ways that differ from nonfamily firms, and that the behaviors of family firms will [...]

The performance of multinational corporations in international markets and the effects of subsidiaries on these performances are analyzed.

The significance and usage of measurement methods for evaluating key performance indicators (KPIs) of business project succe sses is studied.

This empirical research, done in Singapore, contributes to knowledge in the area of business strategy. There is currently a lack of literature concerning the strategy dynamics of successful companies in Singapore. The primary goal of this study is to develop a theoretically based, economical framework for the examination of the relationships between environment; competency and strategy types and performance. Broadly, the research addresses the question whether there is one best business strategy based on core competencies for a given competitive environment. The data that I obtained from objective primary sources was subject to a series of statistical analyses. Factor analysis was performed to determine the hidden constructs which could characterize a strategy type. A multiple regression model was developed to explore whether there was any relationship between performance and the firm's competency factor, while cluster and discriminant analysis were attempted with satisfactory results. The dissertation includes description of the theoretical literature from which the research was conceived, the results obtained and the conclusions derived from the study. The primary contribution of this research was the development of a broadly applicable model which could be a useful platform for the future study of strategy and organizational performance., INTRODUCTION Business challenges today are becoming more varied, numerous, threatening and urgent. Firms need to respond effectively to these challenges, which include global competition, Internet-driven upheaval, industry restructuring and market [...]

This paper extends a series of studies of Black-owned businesses, which the author began in 1962. The most definitive project, completed in 1966, argued that Black businesses originated and grew behind a protective barrier provided by racial discrimination and segregation. It was found that these businesses operated mainly to supply personal services and access to public accommodations that were unavailable to Blacks in the general marketplace. Earlier studies predicated that as discrimination and segregation declined the historic protection for Black businesses would be eroded and they would be thrown with little preparation into a harsh competitive environment. As such, Black-owned firms should be expected to fare poorly. Moreover, it was predicted that as the personal income of the Black community increased, companies operating in the general market would penetrate the previously segregated havens for Black businesses. At the same time, Black entrepreneurs would find it extremely difficult to enter and compete in new fields. Previous studies conducted by the author supported the above hypotheses. The current analysis examines the general framework within which previous studies have been carried out. After examining the current status of Black-owned businesses at the industry level, the findings provide even more persuasive support for previous hypotheses.

Twenty-three million U.S. workers are employed part-time, presenting significant challenges to the practicing manager. Successfully managing turnover has both operational and strategic consequences for an organization. However, very little is known about the turnover of part-time employees. In this exploratory study, we present a discriminant analysis of biographic characteristics of stayers and leavers among 1,053 part-time hospital employees. Pay, length of employment, management status, race, and gender significantly discriminate stayers from leavers. Managerial and research implications are discussed., A notable change in the U.S. labor force is the increased number of part-time, temporary, or contingent workers and those who hold multiple jobs (Belous, 1989; Feldman, 1990; duRivage, 1991; [...]