Graziadio Business Report Blog

In this issue:

Offshoring May Slow Impending U.S. Economic Recovery

When jobs return, they will likely be in developing countries where labor is more cost-effective.
Fred Maidment, PhD

To cut costs and ride out the recession, many U.S. companies are offshoring jobs at greater rates than in the past. Many of these jobs will not return to the United States—yet another obstacle to an eventual economic recovery.

IT Outsourcing: China Grasps for the Lead

China presents a major threat to India in the global IT outsourcing industry.
Yunus Kathawala, PhD, and Christoph Heeren

Is a shift in the global outsourcing of IT occurring? India has long been known for its dominance in the field; however, China is making strong headway.

Domestic Partner Benefits in the United States

A Discussion of Issues Related to Cost, Plan Design, and Administration
James Schaefer, MBA

The rapid increase in U.S. households comprised of non-married couples has created a challenging environment for employers as they try to keep pace with the changing profile of the work force. Continue reading ‘Summer 2009 GBR now live!’

Read the latest issue of the GBR online at http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/091/

In this issue:

Recognizing Organizational Culture in Managing Change

Structural changes can serve as the initial intervention for shifting culture.

Mark Mallinger, PhD, Don Goodwin, MBA, and Tetsuya O’Hara, MBA

The Successful Expatriate Leader in China

Expatriate managers must consider the cultural dimensions of leadership.

Matthew Earnhardt

Private vs. Public Real Estate Markets

How are these markets related in terms of risk and return?

Abraham U. Park, PhD

Continue reading ‘Winter 2009 GBR Issue Now Live’

As a new benefit to readers, GBR audio interviews will now be available for download via iTunes U. Subscribe today to have our interviews with prominent business practitioners automatically downloaded to your iTunes library as they are posted.

Note: Interviews will remain available for download directly from the GBR website. To view our archive of interviews, click here.

How do I access GBR interviews on iTunes U?

(if you do not have iTunes on your computer, you will first need to download it here)

Continue reading ‘GBR Interview Podcasts now on iTunes U’

Read about:

What Happened to the U.S. Housing Market?

As the U.S. financial system struggles to regain stability, Peggy Crawford, PhD, and Terri Young, PhD, examine the role that subprime mortgages and the fall of Fannie and Freddie played in the crisis.
Peggy Crawford, PhD, and Terri Young, PhD

U.S. Could Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards in 2014

Two authors demonstrate varying ways in which IFRS adoption could impact business.
John Briginshaw, PhD, and Roger Hussey, PhD

Best Practices for Headcount Reporting

Future workforce planning efforts must systematically account for alternative worker types.
Brad Jorgensen, DProf, and Donald M. Atwater, PhD

Continue reading ‘GBR Fall 2008 now online!’

This is the second in a series of posts reporting on the hot button issues discussed at the 2008 Entertainment Supply Chain Academy Conference. See the first post here.

Devendra Mishra, MBA

Since 2004, when the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary became members of the European Union, these countries have seen the emergence of an ever-growing middle class. Over the last four years, the changing home video market in these territories has presented Hollywood studios and their distribution partners with a set of unique challenges for market growth of DVD and video games. At the Academy, a group of executives shared their experiences with the video supply chains in Central and Eastern Europe. They highlighted the lack of retail infrastructure and information standards for trading in the supply chain and identified the following drawbacks to doing business there:

• vendor inventory management,
• rampant piracy,
• product pricing,
• gray market,
• unknown royalty payments for Blu-ray,
• limitations posed by copyright encoding in corporate businesses where content protection is unnecessary, and
• the difficulty of getting answers to intellectual property matters.

Continue reading ‘The Global Entertainment Market’

Congratulations to David Callen, MSOD, the $1,000 winner of the First Annual Graziadio School Student Paper Competition presented by the GBR and the Graziadio School of Business and Management of Pepperdine University.

The competition challenged Graziadio School students from all programs to submit a well-researched original article on any business thesis. The publication accepted manuscripts starting mid-term fall 2007 through the summer 2008 term.

Callen’s winning paper “How Intercultural Competence Drives Success in Global Virtual Teams,” will be published in the GBR’s fall 2008 issue, this October. 

UPDATE: Read it here.

Continue reading ‘David Callen, MSOD, wins First Annual Student Paper Competition’

Click on the links below to read the latest articles from the GBR:

Where Do Older Workers Go?

Employment options for older workers continue to evolve and public opinions of older workers vary substantially by country. These differences reflect a range of choices that businesses can learn from and use to realign their value and cost relationships for older workers.

By Donald M. Atwater, PhD, and Daniella Pop

Servicing the Software Industry (SaaS)

7 New Rules for the Software Business. There is something abuzz in the software industry and this time it is not coming from a new hotshot start-up or being propagated by a massive marketing campaign. The buzz is coming from customers and developers alike and it is called Software as a Service, or SaaS for short.

By Kyle C. Murphy, MBA

Supplier Diversity and Competitive Advantage: New Opportunities in Emerging Domestic Markets

6 Strategies for Partnering with Key Minority Stakeholders. Minority businesses, increased spending power within minority communities, and supplier diversity are creating new opportunities for astute companies to realize first-mover advantages in emerging domestic markets.

By Gwen Whitfield, PhD, MBA

The Last 100 Feet of the Supply Chain

Can RFID navigate through the “black hole”? New systems and technology have improved the visibility of goods from manufacturing to store delivery, but they appear to fall into a “black hole” once they reach the retailer’s receiving dock. With RFID technology, the last 100 feet can now be managed effectively by the manufacturer and the retailer.

By Devendra Mishra, MBA

IT-Enabled Information Transparency: A Strategic Approach

The use of information as a competitive advantage. Changes in the availability of information can impact consumer behavior, overall demand, market prices, and the level of competition. In this new technological environment, firms can implement transparency strategies by using information strategically to compete.

By Nelson Granados, PhD

Creating Wealth in Low Income Communities

Audio interview with Forescee Hogan-Rowles, President and CEO of the Community Financial Resource Center. Ms. Hogan-Rowles has dedicated her professional life to serving the underserved communities in her hometown of Los Angeles, California.

By Danielle L. Scott

Editor’s Note

The Top 10 Embracements for Difficult Economic Times. There are many Americans who believe we are not developing the right mind-set to maintain our position as a global economic power. America has the ability to change this mind-set, but we must act now. Here are 10 actions that individuals can take to ensure some degree of sanity and safety for themselves in these uncertain economic times.

By Darrol Stanley, DBA

The Book Corner

The Book Corner has instituted a new five-star rating system.

• The New Human Capital Strategy by Bradley W. Hall, PhD
• Save Now or Die Trying by Mark Bruno
• The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
• Flight Plan: The Real Secret of Success by Brian Tracy
• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr
• Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles Handy
• Creating A World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
• Persuasion IQ: The 10 Skills You Need to Get Exactly What You Want by Kurt W. Mortensen
• Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life by Robert B. Reich
• Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders by Barbara Kellerman
• The Leadership Advantage: How the Best Companies Are Developing Their Talent to Pave the Way for Future Success by Robert M. Fulmer and Jared L. Bleak
• The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook, 2nd Edition by David L. Cooperrider, Diana Whitney, and Jacqueline M. Stavros

L-R: Douglass Gore, Director of Public Relations, Danielle L. Scott, Associate Editor, GBR (me)

Our first time exhibiting was an overwhelming success! We learned so much about our readers and authors at the at the AACSB Faculty Conference on Learning and Research and hopefully brought a new audience into the fold.

Congratulations also go out to Jay Lightfoot, Phd, professor of computer information systems at the University of Northern Colorado (pictured above) for winning our iPod Nano giveaway at the conference. We hope you enjoy it!

For all those who don’t know, we’ve begun exhibiting to spread awareness of the publishing opportunities available for business faculty outside of Pepperdine University. For the past ten (almost 11 now!) years, the GBR has published applied business research. Last year as part of our strategic growth plan, we began accepting submissions for potential publication from non-Pepperdine faculty.

The great response we received in Florida makes us just that much more excited for our next exhibiting opportunity at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Anaheim this August (9-12)!

Here are a few things we’ve learned that potential authors want to know about submitting their research for publication:

• The GBR is double-blind, peer-reviewed, online, quarterly journal (one academic review, one practitioner review)
• Find more information about our submission guidelines at the GBR website or in Cabell’s Online Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management (subscription required)
  
• GBR articles focus on the practical applications of business research–authors must explain how business managers can use their research to impact their businesses positively
• The GBR covers the full scope of business topics from Accounting to Work-Life Balance and everything that comes in between
• Articles should be about 2,000 words and the review process takes about 4 months
• The GBR is the business research publication of the Graziadio School of Business and Management, an AACSB-accredited institution
• About 2,700 readers visit the GBR online every day–mostly business managers and other business persons, students, and faculty; 65% US, 35% international

Of course, if you have any questions, you can always contact me at dscott@pepperdine.edu or leave your questions in the comments.

And if you’re going to the AOM Annual Meeting next month and would like to discuss how your research fits in with the GBR, come see me at the GBR Booth #406!

The Graziadio Business Report will be exhibiting at the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Conference on Learning and Research next week (June 29 to July 1) in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Will you be there? If so, we’d love to meet you!

If you have a compelling research project and are interested in publishing in the GBR, we want to hear from you!

Stop by our table in the exhibitors’ room or contact me to set up a meeting.

Hope to see you there!

Danielle L. Scott
Associate Editor, Graziadio Business Report
dscott@pepperdine.edu
310-568-2311

P.S. You can find our guidelines for submitting an article for review to the GBR at http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/guidelines/