Browsing UMBC Engineering Management by Title
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Assessing the Success of Sarbanes-Oxley
(2012-07-09)This paper evaluates the success that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has had in the market place. It initially assesses improvements the act has made to restore public confidence in the auditing process, and their effectiveness. ... -
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Technology and Applications
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology and determine where it is in its evolutionary development. Technologies that fragment data into small pieces typically have very ... -
Combining Measurement Frameworks
(2011-12-27)This paper reviews and summarizes financial measurement systems and evaluates them against some core management constructs. First, accurate information is fundamental for decision making. Recent improvements in financial ... -
Cultural Comparison of the United States and China from the Project Manager's Perspective
Knowledge of cultural impacts helps project managers understanding of cultural perspectives of all stakeholders. Since cultural differences can become organizational performance barriers, it is important to consider how ... -
Defining Organizational Culture for Entrepreneurs
(2011-07-24)It appears that innovation, and how an organization can acquire it, is the key to being competitive in the New Product Development (NPD) marketplace. Knowledge that leads to innovation in products, unlike specialized ... -
Dispelling the Myth that Organizations Learn from Failure
(2015-12-25)There are some movements within the project management profession to adopt a new posture regarding project failures. According to this new line of reasoning, failure should be embraced since it provides a learning opportunity ... -
Earned Value (EV) Management Model for Small Software Development Projects
(2001-04-17)This paper describes an approach for implementing earned value (EV) management tracking on small software development projects. Small projects are difficult EV applications because work must be tracked down at the task ... -
The Economic Man
(2012-04-15)This paper questions how economic systems are using knowledge to support economic decision making. Scientific knowledge collected by centralized planners is not the right type of information to base economic decisions on ... -
Economics, Positive Science and the Quest for Predictive Performance
(2011-05-12)This paper tracks the evolution of the subject area of positive economics from the contributions of John Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Karl Popper. Economics is said to be a “positive science” that can be ... -
Evolving Human Resource (HR) Management to Cope with Disruptive Innovation Technologies
(2012-11-11)Businesses are responding to the threat of disruptive innovation technologies by upgrading their capabilities and practices. These upgrades ensure implementing organizations become more adaptable, and flexible, with respect ... -
Facebook: A Case Study of Strategic Leadership
(2015-06-04)This paper is a case study validating that strategic leadership which results in a value proposition implemented on behalf of the customer has a tremendous effect on the success of business operations, perhaps even more ... -
The Impact of Technological Innovation Cycles on Organizational Learning
(2011-12-04)In today’s constantly changing business environment, the ability to acquire knowledge, and to do it quickly, is often the difference between surviving and not surviving. Organizational learning is therefore being recognized ... -
Karl Popper and the Call for Academic Discipline
(2011-10-29)Karl Popper was a philosopher that criticized traditional views of how knowledge was purported to support scientific and philosophical hypotheses. This paper analyzes the influence Popper had on how knowledge is used to ... -
Knowledge and Knowledge Barriers
(2011-11-14)This paper investigates spacial clustering of entrepreneurship and considers work advanced by David Andersson in the field. It assesses the influence that knowledge, in the form of insight, has on creating local economic ... -
Leveling E-Commerce Opportunities for Developing Countries
(2011-12-31)Recent studies have raised a disturbing issue concerning the ability of developing countries to compete in the E-business marketplace. Historically, researchers have been optimistic and anticipated that E-commerce technologies ... -
Managing Consumer Trust in Intercultural E-Commerce Transactions
(2011-11-26)The importance of consumer trust to the success of online business transactions is well documented. An analytical look at the typical online purchase indicates the level of trust required to complete a transaction is ... -
Planning the Research Dissertation Project
This paper examines what a dissertation is, summarizes some best practices for preparing one, and then describes a detailed action plan that can be used to manage the entire research effort. -
Post- Crisis Leadership: How Leaders can Embrace Chaos
(Forex Press, 2020-12-04)Post-crisis leadership is a proactive approach where leaders must survey the internal and external environments to garner the trend of consumers buying behaviors. During this time, data analytics, re-energizing of sales ... -
The Process of Capturing Innovation
(2012-11-18)Due to the sheer number of market analysis tools available, no standard strategic planning methodology has been consistently adopted. Businesses can quickly lose focus and become guilty of instilling ‘form-over-substance’ ... -
Recognizing Project Management as an Abstract Science
(2012-05-12)Researchers indicate a shift in scholarly focus from a systems perspective, to one of leadership and organizational behavior. To address increasing project failure rates, leadership theories are being implemented to improve ...