The Study of Social Issues in Management: A Critical Appraisal

This article offers a two-part criticism of the current state of research and...

BOOK REVIEW: Megamergers: Corporate America's Billion Dollar Takeovers

Book Review: MEGAMERGERS by Kenneth M Davidson

Issues in Understanding and Changing Corporate Culture

The current popularity of corporate culture has raised some important issues....

Changing Patterns of International Competition

What does international competition mean for competitive strategy? While ther...

A Debate on the Future of Research in Business and Society

At the 1985 Annual Meeting of the Social Issues Division of the Academy of Ma...

Toward CSR3: Why Ethical Analysis Is Indispensable and Unavoidable in Corporate Affairs

Corporate managers and business-and-society scholars cannot escape the normat...

Political Risk Analysis and Direct Foreign Investment: Some Problems of Definition and Measurement

Research and analysis of political risk assessment in overseas areas is encum...

The Breakup of the Bell System: A Case Study in Cultural Transformation

From an insider's viewpoint, the author describes the major steps in the Amer...

Political Risk in the Gulf: The Impact of the Iran-Iraq War on Governments and Multinational Corporations

This article examines the impact of the Iran-Iraq War on the neighboring coun...

Accounting Lag: The Obsolescence of Cost Accounting Systems

Contemporary changes in the organization and technology of manufacturing oper...

Worker Adjustment: The Missing Ingredient in Trade Policy

Since free trade benefits the economy as a whole, it ought to be feasible for...

Managing Culture: The Invisible Barrier to Strategic Change

The core beliefs of top managers can inhibit strategic change by producing "s...

Countertrade, Offsets, Barter, and Buybacks

Countertrade, offsets, barter, and buybacks have existed since before money w...

Creating Political Advantage: The Rise of the Corporate Political Entrepreneurs

Corporate political activity has been on the rise for the past 15 years. Whil...

The Impact of the Regulatory Life Cycle on Corporate Political Activity

This article examines the impact of the regulatory process on corporate polit...

BOOK REVIEW: Michael Porter’s Competitive Advantage

Book Review: Michael Porter's Competitive Advantage by Frederick E. Balderston.

High-Technology Location and Development: The Case of Orange County

This article analyzes the question of local high-technology location and deve...

Tax Reform and Real Estate

The recent tax reforms proposed by the Administration have occasioned bitter ...

MWBA (Managing By Walking Around)

In an excerpt from their new book, A Passion for Excellence, the authors show...

Organizational Demography: Implications for Management

The composition of organizations in terms of the length of service and age di...

Adjusting to a Strong $: Lessons from the European Experience

As a result of the rise in the value of the dollar against most other currenc...

Employee Practices at the Best-Managed Companies

A defining characteristic of the best-managed companies is the high value the...

Counter Evidence on Managements' Investment Myopia

Contentions that American managers are too myopic are, in a word, wrong. Whil...

Corporate Grassroots Programs in the 1980s

Record numbers of executives are enrolling in political education seminars as...

The Management Practices of Japanese Subsidiaries Overseas

The main purpose of this article is to identify and discuss the Japanese mana...

American and Chinese Managers in U.S. Companies in Taiwan: A Comparison

Trade between Taiwan and the U.S. has grown dramatically in recent years. By ...

East Asian Financial Systems as a Challenge to Economics: Lessons from Taiwan

Taiwan, Japan, and Korea have financial systems far from the liberal type, wi...

Labor Relations in China

This article focuses on the permanent workers in the 400,000 industrial enter...

Commercial Aircraft: Cooperation and Competition Between the U.S. and Japan

The article highlights the competition existing between the U.S. and Japan in...

U.S. Joint Ventures in China: Motivation and Management of Political Risk

Since the People's Republic of China approved the Law on Joint Ventures Using...

Lessons from the Chrysler Bailout

The Chrysler rescue marked a startling departure from political convention. A...

Marketing and the Modernization of China

Late in 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the ...

BOOK REVIEW: A Reader’s Guide to the Industrial Policy Debate

Reviews the book "A Reader's Guide to the Industrial Debate."

Creating Jobs Through Pension Fund Investments in Real Estate: Innovations from California

There are two important features that make real estate an attractive investme...

The American Semiconductor Industry and the Ascendancy of East Asia

Since the invention of the point contact transistor at Bell Laboratories in 1...

The Institutional Foundations of Japanese Industrial Policy

In Japan, macro industrial policy has been of much greater importance than in...

Global Competition: The New Reality

The article presents several issues related to global competition. Since mid-...

Are the Expectations of Women Managers Being Met?

Despite legal sanctions and political pressure from women's organizations to ...

Restoring the Competitive Edge in U.S. Manufacturing

The article discusses several issues related to manufacturing industries in t...

BOOK REVIEW: Silicon Valley Fever

Reviews the book "Silicon Valley Fever," by Everett M. Rogers and Judith K. L...

Reconciling Management Research and Practice

It is a truism that a professional school represents a marriage between theor...

The Future of Business Education

By virtually any measure, the business of business education appears to be bo...

The Limits of Business Self-Regulation

In a liberal democracy, there are limits to the extent to which socially resp...

Business Schools and Their Critics

In the hunt for causes of the competitive problems challenging American indus...

Evaluating Merger Performance

According to authors' their work with several large diversified manufacturers...

Sanctions, Incentives, and Corporate Behavior

This article briefly examines a few specific cases where certain corporations...

Market Positioning in High Technology

The article discusses various issues related to market positioning in high te...

High-Technology Exports from Newly Industrializing Countries: The Brazilian Commuter Aircraft Industry

Embraer Aircraft Co., a Brazilian state-owned aerospace company, began export...

Capital Financing Strategies of the Japanese Semiconductor Industry

In 1980, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) published a study prepa...

Assessing the Nestle Boycott: Corporate Accountability and Human Rights

In October 1984, the International Nestlé Boycott Committee announced the ter...

Understanding the Cultural Environment: U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade Negotiations

In spite of the official position of the U.S. government since the Soviet inv...

Putting Technology into Strategic Planning

Technological change can either create or destroy profits, markets and indust...

The Paradox of 'Corporate Culture': Reconciling Ourselves to Socialization

The article focuses on systematic means by which firms bring new members into...

The Ethics of Hardball

At a Sunday picnic, an easy game of softball is a safe bet to make sure that ...

Entrepreneurial Strategies

The article discusses several strategies in connection with business. Being "...

Lessons from the Best Companies to Work For

The article lists some of the wonderful benefits available to employees at th...

Trade Deficits, Industrial Competitiveness, and the Japanese

As nearly every month brings new record deficits in U.S. merchandise trade an...

The Continuing Increase in the Use of Sophisticated Capital Budgeting Techniques

The results of the three surveys clearly show that firms are increasingly usi...

Loyalty and a Sense of Purpose

This article focuses on the industrial efficiency and loyalty of Japanese emp...

Regulation in America: A Historical Overview

This article is excerpted from the concluding chapter of Thomas McCraw's "Pro...

Who Should Control the Corporation?

This article debates over the control of the organization, the major debate r...

BOOK REVIEW: Taking Mayo and MacGregor Seriously

Reviews the book "Managerial Engineering: Techniques for Improving Quality an...

Revitalizing American Industry: Managing in a Competitive World Economy

This article focuses on the need for revitalization of American industries to...

The Industrial Policy Debate Re-examined

This article focuses on the American industrial policy as of September 1984. ...

The Export Trading Co. Act: A Viable International Marketing Tool

No one expects the Export Trading Company (ETC) Act to rapidly spawn export t...

The Misalignment of the U.S. Dollar and the Japanese Yen: The Problem and Its Solution

The article focuses on the misalignment of the U.S. dollar and the Japanese y...

Managerial Communication: The View from Inside

This article focuses on managerial communication. One important day-to-day ta...

Merger Decision Making: An Ethical Analysis and Recommendation

There are three distinct phases in the successful execution of a merger. The ...

Management and Magic

Business decision makers operate in a world where there is a high degree of r...

Golden Parachutes: A Closer Look

This article describes various aspects related to the policy of golden parach...

Reforming Corporate Governance

Over the past one hundred years, the impact and range of the modem corporatio...

Women in International Management

This article focuses on the role of women in international management. The in...

The Decline of the Japanese System of Management

This article focuses on the decline of the Japanese System of Management. Iro...

What Japan Learned from the U.S.--That We Forgot to Remember

A good deal of Japan's recent success has its roots in what the Japanese lear...

The Future of Industrial Relations

Industrial relations also has a long history of rather well-informed individu...

Issues Management in an Uncertain Environment

Issues management may be an unfortunate misnomer. Certainly, no corporate sta...

Difficulties in Overseeing Ethical Policy

This article focuses on the significance of ethical policy in business manage...

How to Negotiate With the Japanese

This article focuses on a study conducted to find successful methods of negot...

Housing Policies for California in the 1980s

This article presents views of the author on housing policies for California ...

Why the Human Resources Management Function Fails

Since the end of the Second World War, the field of human resources managemen...

BOOK REVIEW: Recent Additions to the Social Regulation Literature

Reviews several books on social regulation. "Going by the Book: The Problem o...

Political and Economic Teamwork: The Development of the Microelectronics Industry of Japan

This article focuses on the political and economic development in the microel...

Economic Analysis and Strategic Management

The purpose of this article is to explain why economic analysis has until rec...

Making American Manufacturing Competitive

A great contest is changing the industrial foundations of the world economy a...

How to Select a Business Strategy

A business strategy has two core elements. The first is the product-market in...

Values and the American Manager: An Update

The values of American managers, particularly those of top executives usually...

Perspectives on Strategy: The Real Story Behind Honda's Success

The intent of the strategy model has always been to assess the relationship o...

Five Steps to Strategic Action

The article presents five approaches to developing and implementing strategy ...

Export Strategies for Small American Firms

One important reason for the minor involvement of the U. S. companies in expo...

Designs for Corporate Entrepreneurship in Established Firms

Until recently, the Schumpeterian distinction between entrepreneurial and adm...

Corporate Responsibility in a Changing Legal Environment

The goal of corporate social responsibility models is to understand, evaluate...

The Ecological Analysis of Business Strategy

Considering populations of firms in the context of competitive dynamics can a...

Strategy Follows Structure: Developing Distinctive Skills

Distinctive organizational performance, for good or ill, is almost entirely a...

The Specialist Strategy

The question remains as to whether sociologists should even bother considerin...

Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame

There is currently a convergence of attention and concern among managers and ...

Arendt's Action Philosophy and the Manager as Eichmann, Richard III, Faust, or Institution Citizen

Hannah Arendt was a respected and controversial philosopher and political the...

The New Meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility

The article presents a discussion on social responsibility of business. The f...

A Keynesian View of the Budget Deficit

The two instruments of macroeconomic management available to the government a...

Industrial Policy and International Competition in High Technology

The U.S. continues to lead in the research and production phases of industry....

BOOK REVIEW: Corporate Social and Political Action

Reviews several volumes of the book "Research in Corporate and Social Perform...

When Business Closes Down: Social Responsibilities and Management Actions

There is no single reason why so many business and plant shutdowns have occur...

Business and Government: The Origins of the Adversary Relationship

Throughout American history, the proper relationship between the public and p...

Public Policy and Price Per KWH

Perhaps no industry better represents a microcosm of industrial society than ...

The Image of Business on Prime Time Television

Television entertainment, beneath its consensus on uplift and the well-appoin...

Venture Capital and the Growth of Silicon Valley

Today, new business formation and venture capital have been enjoying an unpre...

California Transportation: Inventory and Prospects

The article comments on the transportation system of California. California h...

Just-In-Time Purchasing: A Challenge for U.S. Industry

Traditional U.S. purchasing is under assault. Japanese purchasing practices, ...

Regulatory Reform: A Report Card for the Reagan Administration

Reforms of federal regulation since 1981 have been modest. At the statutory l...

BOOK REVIEW: Business Ethics

Reviews several books related to business ethics. "Moral Issues in Business,"...

Environmental Regulation: Some Lessons From British Policy

The adversarial relationship between business and government in the United St...

Marketing to the Hispanic Community

Hispanics make up a consumer market of numerous segments and particular needs...

Revolution and War in the Persian Gulf: The Effect on MNCs

This article analyzes the effects of the recent developments in Iran--namely,...

Assessing OPEC's Pricing Policies

The failure of analysts to understand OPEC behavior is traced in part to the ...

Point of View: The New Management Thinkers

The new management thinkers bring both fresh insights and a revival message t...

The Concerns of the Rich/Poor Consumer

After two decades of the pursuit of consumer rights through regulation, a new...

Evaluating Quality Circles: The American Application

In what represents a reversal in the flow of knowledge between the two countr...

The Public Affairs Function

Corporate public affairs is a relatively young staff function. As such, its m...

Who Should Control Nationalized Companies?

Every large organization must have a system of control, a process for selecti...

Managerial Values and Corporate Codes of Ethics

An analysis of 119 corporation conduct codes suggests that top executives of ...

The Corporate Role in the Not-So-Great Society

Direct federal support and corporate philanthropy are two of the many mechani...

Women on Fortune 500 Boards

Over the past decade, the ranks of female directors in Fortune 500 companies ...

Can Industry Self-Regulation Work?

What has been our experience with industry self-regulation-the setting of sta...

Industrial Policy: A Solution in Search of a Problem

Evidence from the 1970s does not support the view that the United States is "...

How to Conduct a Successful Media Interview

Few issues have caused as much concern among managers over the last decade as...

Why Are Prices for Stock Index Futures So Low?

Stephen Figlewski is an associate professor of finance at New York University...

Business and Society Exchanges: A Framework for Analysis

The authors propose a conceptual framework for the analysis of business-socie...

The 1982 Union Wage Concessions: A Turning Point in Collective Bargaining?

Arguments that 1982 marked a turning point in union wage determination are ov...

The Future of Investment in Real Estate

Real estate is an established investment medium for pension funds and for ind...

BOOK REVIEW: Has Corporate Public Affairs Come of Age?

Reviews three books. "Fighting to Win," by Edward A. Grefe; "The Public Affai...

Commodity and Financial Instrument Options

James W. Hoag is an assistant professor of finance in the Schools of Business...

Looking Back at Topeka: General Foods and the Quality-of-Work-Life Experiment

The Topeka Pet Food Plant has been one of the most highly publicized examples...

American Industry in International Competition: Government Policies and Corporate Strategies

The article focuses on government policies and corporate strategies. The auth...

An Interview with Mark Garman

Mark B. Garman is a professor of finance and management science in the School...

Dealing with Premature Employee Turnover

The article focuses on premature employee turnover. Focusing on the turnover ...

Shareholder Democracy: A Reality or Chimera?

The article focuses on shareholder democracy. Champions of shareholder partic...

Stockholders and Stakeholders: A New Perspective on Corporate Governance

The article shows that the concept of stakeholders in an organization can be ...

David Pyle on Short-Term Interest Rates

David H. Pyle is the Willis H. Booth Professor of Banking and Finance in the ...

Trends in Shareholder Activism: 1970-1982

The article examines the evolution and the effects of politically oriented sh...

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Reagan Era and Beyond

The article focuses on corporate social responsibility in the U.S. One way to...

Intensive Growth Opportunities: An Extended Classification

The article focuses on the intensive growth opportunities open to a firm. Mar...

BOOK REVIEW: Teaching Materials in Business and Society

The article focuses on teaching materials in business and society. Contempora...

The Public Backlash Against PACs

The article focuses on the management of public affairs. The American public ...

The 'Internationalization' of the Japanese Economy

The article focuses on the internationalization of the Japanese Economy. Fore...

Organizing a Strategic Information Scanning System

For a strategic information scanning system to provide useful strategic infor...

Worker Motivation: Unsolved Problem or Untapped Resource?

A new study of almost eleven thousand hourly employees in thirty-seven firms ...

Webb-Pomerene and the Construction Industry

The Webb-Pomerene Act exempts manufacturing associations formed for the purpo...

Spin-Offs and the New Firm Formation Process

Spin-offs-new firms created by individuals breaking off from existing ones to...

Corporate Social Responsibility in Hong Kong

The reputation of business in Hong Kong includes alleged exploitation of labo...

Why Large Corporations Purchase Property/Liability Insurance

The purchase of property/liability insurance by a large, widely held corporat...

FSLIC: A Financial Buffer?

The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation is responsible for insurin...

Productivity: A New Perspective

A major concern in the U.S. today is our low level of productivity increase. ...

Should a Country Move toward International Strategic Market Planning?

`In government-guided country international strategic market planning (CISMP)...

The Theory Z Organization from a Power-Control Perspective

The attractiveness of the Theory Z organization is not due to any inherent im...

Should the Consumer Price Index Determine Wages?

The article focuses on relation between consumer price index (CPI) and wages....

Marketing Information Systems: Uses in the Fortune 500

The article focuses on marketing information systems and their uses in the jo...

Management's Role in Declining Productivity

The article focuses on the management's role in declining productivity. When ...

Selection and Training Procedures of U.S., European, and Japanese Multinationals

The article focuses on selection and training procedures of United States, Gr...

Linking Strategic Planning and Management Manpower Planning

The article focuses on link between strategic planning and manpower planning....

Improving Marketing Productivity: The 80/20 Principle Revisited

The article focuses on improving marketing productivity. A small proportion o...

The Product Portfolio and Man's Best Friend

The article focuses on the BCG Matrix. Most strategic planners are familiar w...

Multinational Capital Budgeting: Foreign Investment Ufnder Subsidy

The article focuses on multinational capital budgeting, foreign investment un...

BOOK REVIEW: Management Implications of Drucker’s Managing in Turbulent Times

Reviews the book "Management Implications of Drucker's Managing in Turbulent ...

The Influence of Sex on Managers in the Service Sector

The article focuses on influence of sex on managers in service sectors. Using...

Leadership in a Declining Work Ethic

The American post-war generation seems to be less motivated toward success, l...

Foreign Investment in LDCs: Egypt

Most Low Developed Countries (LDC) need foreign capital to finance economic d...

Help for Chief Executives: The Outside Consultant

In corporate sector, need for outside help has increased enormously since the...

Business Ethics: A Trojan Horse?

Peter F. Drucker has been acclaimed as the "foremost philosopher of American ...

Four Faces of the Fully Functioning Middle Manager

Since the very beginning, the status of middle managers has been much more de...

Management and the New Egalitarianism: McGuire Revisited

Apologists of capitalism have always argued that the system is more productiv...

Sizing Up New Capital Dividend Reinvestment Plans

A New York stock exchange study reported that inadequate capital investment, ...

No-Fault Criminal Liability for Executives

According to traditional criminal law principles, a person cannot be found gu...

Alternative Approaches to Complying with NEPA: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

On January 1, 1970, the enactment of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)...

Housing Crisis in California

Most people in California enjoy the housing shortage; very few are suffering ...

Planning Executive Dismissals: How to Fire a Friend

While the dismissal of an executive is nearly always traumatic event for the ...

Rationalizing the Unrelated Acquisition

This article argues that unrelated diversification is consistent with a histo...

Strategic Management for Multiprogram Nonprofit Organizations

The task of managing a multiprogram non-profit organization can be arduous. S...

HP-Grenoble: Case Study in Technology Transfer

The transfer of a product or process from one location of an organization to ...

Internal Control of Managerial Integrity: Beyond Accounting Systems

The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented number of public disclosures o...

Selecting Among Alternative Grand Strategies

Grand strategies are typically formulated to promote synergy in operations ov...

Corporate Political Activism

Political involvement can be broadly defined as participation in the formulat...

Executives under Fire: The Burnout Syndrome

Worker burnout is suddenly a major concern in American industry and governmen...

Motivational Segments in the Sales Force

Traditionally, sales management has been neglected by marketing scholars. Rat...

Deceptive Practices in Marketing Research: The Consumer's Viewpoint

Consumers do, in fact differentially react to the ethical stature of various ...

Total Involvement as a Productivity Strategy

Examines the importance of the total involvement of board of directors and em...

The Inflation Audit

Examines the need for an inflation audit among firms to counter the impact of...

Designing a Budgeting System with Planned Confusion

Explores the potential virtues of dual budgeting processes coexisting within ...

Job Enrichment through Symbol Management

Analyzes the job enrichment tools that helps managers to exert a considerable...

Performance Appraisal: Here Comes the Judge

Proposes a modern philosophy of employee performance appraisal for U.S. compa...

Toward an Age of Humility

Examines the impact of stagflation on the economic conditions of the develope...

The SEC’s Pollution Disclosure Requirements: Are They Meaningful?

Analyzes the relevance of the pollution disclosure requirements of the U.S. S...

The Sales Force Management Audit

Describes the areas an auditor should examine when performing a sales force m...

Employee Rights and Corporate Restrictions: A Balancing of Liberties

Examines the issue of employee rights and corporate restrictions in the U.S. ...

Boards of Directors: Adversaries or Advisors

Examines the nature of powers of the board of directors. Importance of the b...

An Executive-Level Perspective on the Strategic Management Process

The article presents an executive level perspective on the strategic manageme...

What Product Benefits To Offer to Whom: An Application of Conjoint Segmentation

The article presents a case of the use of conjoint segmentation by a radio co...

Inside a Soviet Management Institute

The article presents observations of the author about one of the Soviet Union...

Social Character and the New Automobile Industry

The article presents a study of the accurate profile of profile of purchasers...

Sales Force Management: Integrating Research Advances

The article presents a three-stage conceptual model of personal selling and t...

Marketing Dilemma: Change in the Eighties

The article presents the results of survey of four groups of individuals with...

Strategic Portfolio Management in the Multibusiness Firm

The article presents a research on the process by which firms are implementin...

Utility Depreciation: An Inequity

The article critically examines depreciation as a theoretical accounting conc...

Decertification: Is the Current Trend a Threat to Collective Bargaining?

The article focuses threat to labor movement due to increase in decertificati...

Social Responsibility and Portfolio Performance

Examines the use of investment exclusion and investment targeting as social r...

Participative Management: Myth and Reality

Investigates problems in the implementation of participative management in U....

Shareholder Suits: Good News and Bad News for Corporate Executives

Assesses the legal hazards that corporate executives in the U.S. face in conn...

Retirement in Peril: Inflation and the Executive Compensation Program

Looks at how inflation can erode traditional postretirement benefits and offe...

The Uphill Struggle for Job Enrichment

Focuses on obstacles to job enrichment in business organizations. Complexity...

Supporting the Rich

Focuses on government provision of financial aid to rich, modern U.S. corpora...

Matching Technology and the Design of Organization Units

Focuses on technological issues that need to be considered in the unit design...

Productivity: Learning from the Japanese

Analyzes the Japanese productivity system and considers its applicability to ...

A Case for Corporate and Management Ethics

Offers arguments in support of the view that corporate and management ethics ...

Foundations of a Political Strategy for Business

This article describes a conceptual framework for planning corporate politica...

Barriers to Entry: Antitrust’s Search for a New Look

Sociologists believe it is a serious mistake for antitrust to tamper with end...

Private Management and Public Policy

The contention that the responsibility of the corporation for social concerns...

Corporate PACs as Fundraisers

During the 1970s corporate political action committees (PACs) emerged as an i...

Global Competitive Pressures and Host Country Demands: Managing Tensions in MNCs

The article discusses four management approaches for facing global competitiv...

Monte Carlo Simulation for Management

The purpose of this article is to provide a better understanding of the capab...

OD in Cross-Cultural Settings: Latin America

The article discusses organizational development (OD) in cross-cultural setti...

Free Market vs. Social Responsibility: Decision Time at the CED

The posture of business toward society can be a crucial determinant of how we...

The Anti-Export Policy of the U.S.

The objective of this article is to analyze the anti-export policy of the U.S...

Managerial Perceptions of Two Appraisal Systems

This article presents a longitudinal study of employee reactions to two types...

Fighting Regulation: The Regulatory Review

The article evaluates the probable contributions of the proposed regulatory r...

The Channels Manager: Marketing’s Newest Aide?

The article examines the rationale for having a channels manager, organizatio...

Free Enterprise in a Free Society

Most of the private sector has long recognized the significance of the free e...

Ten Questions about MBO

Since the development and popularization of the concept of management by obje...

Are State-Owned Enterprises Unfair Competition?

In recent times there has been a growing concern in the U.S. about the mounti...

Flexible Price Agreements: Purchasing's View

The article examines perceptions about, and the use and strategy of flexible ...

Corporate Codes of Conduct

The article presents a broad survey of corporate executives and a content ana...

Linking Public Affairs with Corporate Planning

In order to cope effectively with the frequently disruptive outside factors, ...

Increasing the Effectiveness of Marketing Research

The article suggests two approaches to marketing research that managers can u...

Internalization Theory and Corporate International Finance

Internalization theory is a recognition of market imperfections that prevent ...

How Managers Cope with Terrorism

Terrorism has caused many firms to adopt separate strategies for particular c...

The Equity Component of the Executive Compensation Program

The article discusses methods of delivering equity to executives, and will ex...

Integration of Intent to Leave and OD Interventions

From an examination of the turnover-related literature and the organizational...

Women Executives in MNC Subsidiaries

The article explores the attitudes of male managers toward women as senior ex...

The Product Manager

This article examines product management from the viewpoint of the marketing ...

Industrial Planning in Japan

The planning process for developing Japan's industrial structure has no paral...

Scanning the Future Environment: Social Indicators

The complexities and interdependencies in modern society accentuate the impac...

A Format for Directors’ Information Systems

The article proposes a format for an information system geared to the needs o...

The Information Seekers: Multinational Strategy Target

The cosmopolitan information seekers constitute a readily identifiable and re...

Response Errors in Survey Research

Indisputably, sample surveys hold a legitimate, perhaps primary, role in the ...

International Competition and U.S. Public Policy

International competition in high-technology industry is beginning to influen...

Organizational Design: Dealing with the Human Constraint

The article tries to integrate diverse approaches to consideration of the hum...

China's Law on Joint Ventures

This article examines the law on joint-ventures adopted by the fifth National...

Beyond EOE and Affirmative Action: Working on the Integration of the Work Place

This article discusses the importance of organizational integration program f...

Unions and Wages: What We've Learned Since the '50s

This article focuses on the issue of union wage determination in the U.S. For...

Variations in Corporate Social Performance

This article focuses on a study which aimed to examine the relationship betwe...

What's Bothering Those Shareholder-Plaintiffs?

This articles focuses on shareholder lawsuits against corporate officials in ...

A Theory of Return for Deposit: Economic and Logistical Implications of Legislation

This article describes business' problem, using Michigan as an example, and d...

What Corporate Ethics Statements Say

This article focuses on a specific set of behavior variables those dealing wi...

The Dimensions of Planning in Large, Industrialized Organizations

The case for current sophistication in planning techniques should not be over...

Marketing Executives' Perceptions of a Salary Increase

This article focuses on research which attempts to answers the nature of perc...

Foreign Acquisition in the U.S.: A Neomercantilist Challenge

Although foreign direct investment is not a new phenomenon in the United Stat...

Personnel Decisions: A Bayesian Approach

Examines the use of Bayesian analysis to evaluate the costs and values of inf...

Foreign Firms in Japan

Examines the problems faced by foreign business enterprises especially from t...

DSS and Strategic Decisions

Analyzes the reasons for sluggish development of decision support systems. C...

Individuals and the Organization

Focuses on the crisis between individuals and organizations. Change in the v...

Putting Information Technology To Work

Examines the effect of the use of programming resources for data processing o...

Real Estate as if Management Mattered

Examines the significance of management in real estate investments. Historic...

Corporate Courtship and Successful Joint Ventures

Focuses on how executives perceive joint ventures in a form to link the speci...

Human Resource Planning in U.S. Corporations

Examines the status of human resource planning in major U.S. corporations. E...

7 Myths About Quality of Working Life

Examines the relationship between quality of working life, organizational per...

Corporate Social Responsibility Revisited, Redefined

Focuses on the social responsibility of corporations. Scope of the definitio...

Styles of Mideastern Managers

Examines the managerial styles and philosophies of Mideastern executives. At...

Scanning the International Environment

There may be many reasons why a firm scans its international environment. Thi...

Motivation and Innovation: Who Are Workers Serving?

The article presents information on motivation and innovation. The proposed s...

Assumptions of Majestic Metals: Strategy through Dialectics

Today's executive is having difficulty sorting out sound from faulty assumpti...

Consumerism and Health Care Marketing

The article presents information on consumerism and health care marketing. On...

New Look at Corporate Goals

Corporate goals are often considered the starting point of effective manageme...

Children's Perceptions of Televised Fiction

The major reason for studying whether or not children perceive televised fict...

New Gold Rush

With the legalization of gold trading for American citizens on January 1975, ...

LDC Governments: Takeovers and Renegotiations of Foreign Investments

Governments of less developed countries have been initiating takeovers of for...

Organizational Control Systems as a Managerial Tool

Defective organizational control systems can be caused by an inadequate under...

The Golfer

In this article, the author discusses managerial activities in relation to ti...

Hidden Cost of Federal Energy Legislation

In this article, the authors discuss several aspects of the energy situation ...

Bit by Bit: Toward Decision Support Systems

This article focuses on the uses of decision support system in business plann...

Regulation and Innovation: U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry

This article discusses effects of governmental legislative amendment for regu...

Organizational Politics: Tactics and Characteristics of Its Actors

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Apricots for Ammonia: Barter, Clearing, Switching, and Compensation in International Business

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