Each year Fortune magazine publishes a "Most Admired" list of the top companies in the United States. Firms are rated on these eight dimensions: innovativeness, quality of management, long-term investment value, social responsibility to the community and the environment, people management, quality of products and services, financial soundness, wise use of corporate assets, and, if international, a ninth dimension: effectiveness in doing business globally.

For this assignment, Amazon is the organization with which you are familiar. Then, choose one of the eight dimensions used to rate top U.S. companies in which the organization appears to be underperforming.

Your presentation should address the following:

1. Explain the ramifications the underperformance is currently having on the organization. Identify the likely consequence of failure to improve in the selected dimension.

You are required to use at least three academic references to strengthen and support your claims and recommendations. Ensure you have supporting citations and specific examples.