After a decade of treating the topic of e-commerce with awe and confusion, we can now step back and analyze the subject more objectively. From launching an electronic storefront to managing complex supply chain operations, most companies have ventured into e-commerce; but even the best-run bricks-and-mortar enterprises have run into snags in the virtual world. Even mighty Wal-Mart, for example, took its website through several redesigns and sales strategies, and Borders eventually outsourced its Internet sales activites to rival, Amazon. Despite the horror stories of abysmal customer service, lost information, catastrophic meltdowns, and the excesses of the dot.com boom, the Internet is now an essential tool and medium for conducting business. Today, the key question is not whether your firm should invest in e-commerce, but how you can do so most profitably.
In Implementing E-Commerce Strategies, Marc Epstein goes beyond the hype to focus on the practical angles of designing, executing, and successfully managing an e-commerce strategy that works for your company. While many books have addressed the what and why of e-commerce, Epstein zeroes in on the elusive how. Showcasing the experiences of 32 companies (both successes and failures) in a wide variety of industries, he explores such issues as corporate culture and strong leadership from the executive suite, integrating e-commerce into corporate strategy, aligning goals, accountabilities, and performance metrics to support e-commerce initiatives, and building systems that can measure the value of your e-commerce investments. No business can avoid e-commerce―and its capacity for creating spectacular opportunities or wasting precious time and resources. How your firm handles these challenges may very well determine whether or not it will survive.

Implementing E-Commerce Strategies: A Guide to Corporate Success after the Dot.Com Bust

Business & Money

Marc J. Epstein

Industries

Praeger

The Accountable Corporation

Praeger Publishers

Business Ethics

Kirk Hanson

This volume develops and applies a power control exchange framework of accounting that incorporates both the structural-functional (SF) (rational choice model) and the conflict-pluralistic (CP) (political choice model) to study management/organizational control systems as a resource exchange process. The framework proposes that control as an exchange process depends on two factors: basis of power, classified as SF-rational or CP-political and perceived availability of resources, dichotomized as relative slack or relative scarcity. The relationship between these two factors yields four types of resource exchange: co-operative, competitive, distributive or unequal. These resource exchange typologies are discussed and applied to study management accounting/control systems within the context of divisionalized business organizations. The book concludes with a chronological review of research together with applications for for-profit organizations.

Power Control Exchange Framework of Accounting: Applications to Management Control Systems (Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting, 5)

Seleshi

Selshi Sisaye

Management & Leadership

Emerald Publishing Limited

Publishes well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. As one of the premier management accounting research journals, AIMA is well poised to meet the needs of management accounting scholars. Featured in Volume 12 are articles on new directions in management accounting research, profit impact of value chain reconfiguration blending strategic cost management (SCM) and action-profit-linkage (APL) perspectives, the measurement gap in paying for performance, cost accounting practices used in advanced manufacturing environments, compensation strategy and organizational performance, accounting for cost interactions in designing products, relationship quality in performance measurement, measuring and accounting for market risk tradeoffs, connecting concepts of business strategy and competitive advantage to activity-based machine cost allocations, corporate acquisition decisions under different strategic motivations, and some new findings on the balanced scorecard adoptions. Researchers in both practice and academe, as well as libraries, would be interested in the articles featured in the AIMA.

Advances in Management Accounting (Advances in Management Accounting, 12)

John Y. Lee

Economics

Advances in Management Accounting (17)

Emerald Group Pub Ltd

Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know

F. Warren McFarlan

Jossey-Bass

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Measuring and Improving Social Impacts

Berrett-Koehler

Advances in Management Accounting publishes thoughtful, well-developed articles across a broad spectrum of current topics in the field of management accounting, using a variety of research methods including survey research, field tests, corporate case studies and modeling. Volume 26 exemplifies the broad scope of Advances in Management Accounting, examining a number of areas within management accounting.

Advances in Management Accounting (Advances in Management Accounting, 26)

Finance

'Advances in Management Accounting' ('AMA') publishes well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. As one of the premier management accounting research journals, 'AMA' is well poised to meet the needs of management accounting scholars.

Advances in Management Accounting (Advances in Management Accounting, 27)

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