The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp market decline while raising heterogeneous responses across companies related to their employees, supply chain, and repurposing of operations to provide needed products and services. We study whether during the 2020 COVID-19 induced market crash, investors...

Microsoft acquired DATAllegro in July 2008 and is preparing the new release of its BI platform for 2010. Projects "Gemini" and "Madison" are extensions to Microsoft's business intelligence strategy: a new version of Analysis Services and data warehousing functionality from DATAllegro,...

SAP AG bought Business Objects SA in 2008. The acquisition is designed to accelerate SAP's growth with the addition of thousands of new customers and a new product line to address the fast-growing market for business intelligence (BI) software. As SAP had its own BI product (NetWeaver BI), the...

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company who delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms report presents a global view...

By acquiring Hyperion Solutions in 2007, Oracle consolidated its position as a leader on the BPM Market. Released in the July 2008, the new BPM platform is called Oracle EPM System and includes a number of innovations and capabilities to improve business insights and decision-making. Oracle EPM...

Research to date has shown that companies can accumulate resources over those strictly needed in order to overcome the uncertainty associated to a crisis. But the usage, redeployment, or consumption of this excess of resources when facing an adverse environment is yet underexplored. As suggested...

We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of US companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high purpose firms come in two forms:...

This paper presents a critical review of the relevant literature on managerialism and performance management in higher education. Afterwards, it features an inductive research that involved semi structured interview sessions with academic members of staff. The interpretative study relied on the...

This study defines SHRM as employee/business performance relationship. Employee performance has an impact on performance of business departments in this model; and, performance of business departments have an impact on firm performance. In addition, American model of SHRM defines SHRM with HR...