SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from January 2001

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from January 2001

From the Editor-in-Chief.(Abstract)
January 1, 2001... This issue contains five articles covering topics that address past management practices and current technology-based developments. In the first article, Miller and Vaughan review the work of Lyndall Urwick and Mary Parker Follett and conclude...

Messages From the Management Past: Classic Writers and Contemporary Problems.(Abstract)
January 1, 2001... In his 1990 book Managing on the Edge, Robert Pascale quoted a confused Midwestern marketing manager: In the past 18 months we have heard that profit is more important than revenue, quality is more important than profit, that people are...

Competitive Intelligence Activity Among Small Firms.
January 1, 2001... In the 1960s and 1970s, American Companies faced little foreign competition, and a majority of the world's market was within the United States. Corporate strategy simply consisted of new product development to meet the growing affluence of...

The Journey to Cyberspace: Reflections From Three Online Business Professors.
January 1, 2001... Teaching in cyberspace has become a reality to many business professors in recent years; others are thinking of making the trip. The authors of this paper have taken the journey, lived to tell the tale, and are committed to making the return...

Language Learning and International Business.
January 1, 2001... Willy Brandt, former German chancellor, once commented, "If I'm selling to you, I speak your language. If I'm buying, dann mussen Sie Deutsch sprechen (then you must speak German)" (Nurden, 1997:39). In an era of increasing foreign direct...

Electronic MBAs: The Future is Here.
January 1, 2001... Standing the economics of mass production on their head, the new information technologies push the cost of diversity toward zero. Knowledge thus substitutes for the once-high cost of change in the production process (p. 87). Moreover, as...