Do Some Business Models Perform Better than Others?

Do Some Business Models Perform Better
than Others? A Study of the 1000 Largest US
Firms


Authors:
Peter Weill,
Thomas W. Malone,
Victoria T. D’Urso,
George Herman,
Stephanie Woerner
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No.
MIT Center for Coordination Science Working Paper No. 226
2005



The paper defines four basic types of business models (Creators, Distributors, Landlords and  Brokers). Next, the type of asset involved (Financial, Physical, Intangible,  or Human) is considered and 16 specialized variations of the four basic business models are defined. Using  this framework, the revenue streams of the top 1000 firms in the US economy  in fiscal year 2000 were analyzed for their financial performance. The results show that  business models are a better predictor of financial performance than industry  classifications and that some business models do, indeed, perform better than others.

http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/pdf/wp226.pdf

What is Management in Supply Chain Management? - A Critical Review

What is Management in Supply Chain Management? - A Critical Review of

Definitions, Frameworks and Terminology

Dag Naslund

University of North Florida and Lund University, Sweden

Steven Williamson

University of North Florida

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a concept that is gaining in popularity and importance. However, there is lack of a universally accepted definition of SCM. Several different and competing frameworks  exist for SCM. There are  issues with terminology and there is relative lack of empirical evidence supporting the benefits attributed to SCM. The purpose for this paper is therefor to bring some clarification to the concept of SCM by exploring some of

the more prevalent SCM definitions, frameworks and terminology.

Journal of Management Policy and Practice vol. 11(4) 2010

pp.11-28

http://www.na-businesspress.com/JMPP/NaslundWeb.pdf

The Validity and Usefulness of Management Theories: A Review - Leeds University Working Paper

Authors: J. P. Cornelissen and R. Thorpe
December 2004

Paper link

In this paper, the widely held claim within the management literature - that management theory can be 

validated through successful applications in organizational settings - was subjected to critical appraisal. The 

analysis of this claim and its warrant and grounds have interesting and far-reaching implications  for the relationship between management theory and practice, and for the working relationship  between academic researchers and practicing managers.   

Management Process and Discipline - Research Papers

 

 

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Management as a discipline and profession

 

 

Design and Devotion: Surges Rational and Normative Ideologies of Control in Managerial Discourse

Stephen R, Barley and Gideon Kunda

Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3, Sep, 1992, Pp. 363-99

http://www.hhss.se/akademiska/Old%20Documents/kunda%20barley.pdf

 

 

 

Cybernetics and Management - An early paper with good explanation, August 1969

MIT faculty

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/48399/managementproces00zann.pdf?sequence=1

 

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Management - Ph.d Dissertations (Thesis)

Title:     Players and layers: young men's construction of individual and group masculinities through consumption practices
Authors:     Hein, Wendy
Supervisors:     O’Donohoe, Stephanie
Marshall, David
Issue Date:     2010
Publisher:     The University of Edinburgh
http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/4478

Business Management in Digital Economy

2009

Review of Dissertation

http://revistaie.ase.ro/content/49/1005%20-%20phd_review_Mircea.pdf

Impact of acquisitions on short-run returns and leverage: two studies in corporate finance
Authors:     Tao, Qizhi
Supervisors:     Armitage, Seth
Issue Date:     2009
Publisher:     The University of Edinburgh
http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/4291

A quantative evaluation of the reformulated 1996 path-goal theory of work unit leadership via structural equation modelling
Authors:  Howieson, William B
Supervisors:  Kerley, Richard
Hatherley, David
Issue Date:  2008
http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/2604

ZHANG, Yuzhao: Essays on Return Predictability and Volatility Estimation
A dissertation  for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Management, 2008
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/prg/phd/Dissertation_Yuzhao_Zhang.pdf

ZHANG, Yuzhao: Essays on Return Predictability and Volatility Estimation
A dissertation  for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Management, 2008
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/prg/phd/Dissertation_Yuzhao_Zhang.pdf


Title:     An Exploratory Study of Chinese Own Label in Grocery Sector: the Case of Shanghai
Authors:     Song, Wei
Supervisors:     Dawson, John
Issue Date:     2007
http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/2149

Continuous Improvement and Operations Strategy: Focus on Six Sigma Programs
Anand J. Gopesh
2006
Graduate School of the Ohio State University
http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Anand%20Gopesh%20J.pdf?osu1151427239

Using Multi-market Information to Improve Understanding of Firm and Consumer Behavior
A dissertation  for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Management
by Paulo Antonio Costa Albuquerque, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/prg/phd/DissertationFinal.pdf


Essays on Learning and Investor Behavior
A dissertation  for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Management
by Juhani Linnainmaa
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/prg/phd/Dissertation_JL.pdf


Essays on Learning and Investor Behavior
A dissertation  for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Management
by Juhani Linnainmaa
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/prg/phd/Dissertation_JL.pdf

Multi-Item Supply Chain and Revenue Management Problems

2004, Columbia

http://www.meiss.com/download/Joern-Meissner-PhD-Thesis.pdf


Lean Manufacturing Management: The Relationship between Practice and Firm Level Financial Performance
Eric Oscar Olsen,
2004
Graduate School of the Ohio State University
http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Olsen%20Eric%20Oscar.pdf?osu1086113492

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Hari Abyhankar, Inventory Control for High Technology Capital Equipment Firms, PhD Thesis, MIT Sloan School of Management, Feb. 2000 (Download PDF).
Research Advisor: Stephen C. Graves
Opher Baron, Pricing and Admission Control for Shared Computer Services Using the Token Bucket Mechanism, PhD Thesis, MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2003 (Download PDF).
Research Advisor: Gabriel R. Bitran
Brian Tomlin, Supply Chain Design: Capacity, Flexibility and Wholesale Price Strategies, PhD Thesis, MIT Sloan School of Management, February 2000 (Download PDF).
Research Advisor: Stephen C. Graves
Sean Willems, Two Papers in Supply Chain Design: Supply Chain Configuration and Part Selection in Multigeneration Products, PhD Thesis, MIT Sloan School of Management, February 1999 (Download PDF).
Research Advisor: Stephen C. Graves

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Thesis Sites

http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/868/browse?type=subject&submit_browse=Subject

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x841.xml

Ohio State University
http://etd.ohiolink.edu/search.cgi?q=instcode:osu&field=&pagesize=30&dept.facet=Business%20Administration&sort=author

The Knol Included in the collection
PhD Dissertations (Thesis) - Subject Knol Collection



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Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM and Emerging Business Opportunities

Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM and Emerging Business Opportunities
( http://cmr.berkeley.edu/articles/2009_51_4_5525_accenture_award.pdf )

Charles A. O’Reilly III
J. Bruce Harreld
Michael L. Tushman

California Management Review Vl.51. No.5, Summer 2009

The paper quotes the work of Stubbart and Knight on life of Companies.

In a comprehensive study of the more than six million U.S. firms, Stubbart and Knight note that only a tiny fraction of firms live to age 40, probably less than 0.1%. Then it brings out the two points of view organizational ecology whose position is that environment changes drastically at certain points of time and only organizations which are in alignment with the new environment survive and others will vanish. The organizational adaptation theory claims that environment gives sufficient opportunity to firms to adapt. Firms that adapt survive and firms which do not make attempts to adapt or fail to make appropriate and sufficient changes fail and disappear.

In this paper, the authors describe how IBM adapted successfully to live beyond 100 years. They stated that both the theories can be supported.