Here's a great article from our friends at BSchool.com on the weirdest of all those many, many trade shows and conventions held around the globe. Read:
10 Most Bizarre Business Conventions in the World | BSchool.com Business Schools Directory
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
10 Most Bizarre Business Conventions in the World | BSchool.com Business Schools Directory
Here's a great article from our friends at BSchool.com on the weirdest of all those many, many trade shows and conventions held around the globe. Read:
10 Most Bizarre Business Conventions in the World | BSchool.com Business Schools Directory
Monday, January 24, 2011
Senior Moments: A New, Knowledge on Demand Marketplace Matches Firms with The Right, Seasoned Experts to Fill Their Needs for Expertise | Bizcovering
How can companies needing senior executive perspectives find that on demand? Likewise, how do retired or semi-retired senior managers and consultants find a market for their many years of experience and perspective? A new, start-up firm has a solution that enables both sides of the knowledge management equation to use new technologies and social media to meet the growing need for knowledge and expertise on demand.
Read more:
Senior Moments: A New, Knowledge on Demand Marketplace Matches Firms with The Right, Seasoned Experts to Fill Their Needs for Expertise | Bizcovering
David Wyld, Professor of Management
Southeastern Louisiana University
Wyld About Business (http://ping.fm/lGaPN)
Fox News on The Potential for State Bankruptcies to Occur
Here at Wyld About Business, we've been covering an emerging political and investment topic, that of the potential for individual states to declare bankruptcy (See State Bankruptcy Option Is Sought, Quietly). Now, Fox News has brought the topic to the front burner. Watch this interview below with Shepard Smith and Jordan Goodman, the author of Master Your Debt (ironic, isn't it!). Watch below and comment here on the blog:
We do live in interesting - and yet, scary - times!
David Wyld, Professor of Management
Southeastern Louisiana University
Wyld About Business (http://ping.fm/13DSS)
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Best Romantic Movies
These are the list of some romantic movies that I already seen. And these are all my favorites. These movies have its different kind and ways of finding true love. It also shows the different meaning and approach about love.
Read All -==> Best Romantic Movies
(pictures via Wikipedia)
Hello Writer
Hello writer,
February is near and love will fill the air soon. Valentines signs and symbols such as love letters, love story, poems, pictures of hearts and roses will be everywhere. Some of the people will look for some love story that relates them, love letters that has the same message they want to convey and poems that will catch someone’s heart.
Is Social Networking Actually Making Us Less Connected...And Less Human: One MIT Professor Thinks So
Image via WikipediaWhat is social media doing to us? An ironic question I guess since you are reading this on a blog, and likely on your phone or iPad! One MIT Professor, Sherry Turkle, argues that all our technological connections are destructive to our real connectedness.�The Guardian describes the situation in its opening its coverage of her book:
The way in which people frantically communicate online via Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging can be seen as a form of modern madness, according to a leading American sociologist. "A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological," MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes in her new book, Alone Together, which is leading an attack on the information age.
You can read the complete article below:
Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US | Media | The Observer
And of course, she appeared on The Colbert Report and discussed her ideas there. Watch below and comment here on the blog (consider as Colbert asked whether texting is OK at a funeral?):
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We do live in interesting times...
David Wyld, Professor of Management
Southeastern Louisiana University
Wyld About Business (http://wyld-business.blogspot.com/)
Saturday, January 22, 2011
New Article in the Journal of Supply Chain Management on Bidding Behavior in Reverse Auctions
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Three researchers have just published a major new article on bidder behavior in reverse auctions in the procurement process in the leading journal, the Journal of Supply Chain Management. The article info is as follows:
TITLE: TO BID OR NOT TO BID: DRIVERS OF BIDDING BEHAVIOR IN ELECTRONIC REVERSE AUCTIONS
AUTHORS: SENGUN YENIYURT, STEVIE WATSON, CRAIG R. CARTER, CYNTHIA KAY STEVENS
ABSTRACT:
Electronic reverse auctions (eRAs) are a popular tool used in sourcing and business research. However, the complexity of decisions made during this type of auction is not yet fully understood. The authors use data from a published laboratory experiment that had examined the impact of eRA auction configuration on buyer price and supplier perceptions of opportunism. In the present study, the authors analyzed data from the 11,882 time-interval observations and 2,549 bids submitted by suppliers to explore the factors that affect suppliers' decisions to submit bids in eRAs. The effects of supplier characteristics, bidding history and experience, auction configuration, and timing on the propensity to bid at a specific point in time during the eRA are estimated utilizing continuous time hazard rate analysis techniques. Our results indicate that the supplier's need for cognition and number of prior auction failures, online auction configuration, and the rank status of a supplier's bid at a given point in time all significantly affect the propensity to submit a bid. Also, if suppliers have previously submitted many bids in the online auction, they tend to submit more subsequent bids, suggesting an escalation of commitment dynamic that may underlie the potential for a bidding frenzy.
Unfortunately, the Journal of Supply Chain Management doesn't make their full content online, but for info on how to get the article, go their website at this link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-493X.2010.03214.x/abstract
David Wyld, Professor of Management at Southeastern Louisiana University and Director of the Reverse Auction Research Center (http://www.reverseauctionresearch.com/)
From the Reverse Auction Research Center: http://reverseauctionresearch.blogspot.com/
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