Response
On January 26, 2004, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed the first lawsuit against a suspected phisher who was a Californian teenager who allegedly created a webpage designed to look like the America Online website, and used it to steal credit card information
US 2005 : Anti-phishing Act of 2005 – although not implemented, under this law those who created fake web sites and s
responsibility of making their own
information technology decisions ?
-Should IT infrastructure be centrally controlled and managed?
-What is the relationship between central information systems management
and business unit information systems management?
-How will infrastructure costs be allocated among business units?
Each organization will need to arrive at answers based o
responsible for developing the IKEA range and making it available to stores and customers all over the world.
TSO: The Trading Service Office is responsible for the sourcing of IKEA products with good function and quality, at the lowest possible cost (landed is store). TSO is operating under service agreements with IKEA Trading Agents.
Suppliers of raw materials
Sub-supplier
Components: Compo
Rope Pull: greater levels of productivity but with diminishing returns as group size increases
Caused by either equity concerns or a diffusion of responsibility (free riders)
Managerial Implications
Build in individual accountability
Prevent social loafing by:
Setting group goals
Increasing intergroup competition
Using peer evaluation
Distributing group rewards based on individual effort
cost strategy then traditional budgetary control may help implementation. However, few companies compete on price alone so additional performance measures may be non-financial, such as delivery or queuing time.
In some businesses, strategy is seen as involving organizational learning rather than as a top-down, centralized process. In this business model, management accounting may be use