Gilbert Juarez
MGT 411
NOV 18, 2014
Professor Martha Alcala
Annotated Bibliography
Article One:
McConnell, C. R. (2007). The Healthcare Managers Human Resource Handbook (1st ed.). Retrieved from UOPX
Although this was a Human Resource Management book the topics related to organizational function that deals with issues related to people such as compensation, hiring, performance management, organization development, safety, wellness, benefits, employee motivation, communication, administration, and training all tie in to innovation and management process. With strategic management and innovation being a vital component to a company’s success, the topics that were discussed in the book provided great contents and steps on strategic management and innovation. The topics were useful and interesting with dealing with complex process of merging two companies together to create an international company that is powerful; the way that it suggested to accomplish this was expansion of a business. Uniting two diverse companies with distinct business processes, strategies, and cultures is a definite challenge of mergers, Involving companies from a different culture is even more challenging. People, financial, and operational processes need to be reviewed by executives in order for a new set of rules, procedures, and practices to be developed for the new company. This reference was good because it provided more than one way to accomplish globalization.
Article Two:
Teece, D. J. (2009). Dynamic capabilities and strategic management: organizing for innovation and growth retrieved from UOPX
This article focuses on the ways in which companies that create products can successfully deal with technological and intellectual property complexity. The authors present a framework designed to help guide managers of innovating firms in designing appropriate strategy when seeking to bring an innovation to market in a multi-invention context. The author uses