Business Horizons articles

Recent articles from Business Horizons

Organizational Decline--A Stimulus for Innovation?(management research)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... The Fastnet is a race for oceangoing sailboats that is held biannually in the North Atlantic. In 1979, a severe storm hit the racers, producing winds in excess of 70 mph and waves over 30 feet high. During the storm, 24 yachts out of the 300 competing were abandoned by their crews, and 15...

Getting to Know the Neighbors: Grupos in Mexico.(business alliances)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Over the last two decades, a wealth of information has appeared in the academic press examining the structure and competitive behavior of such organizational forms as the Japanese keiretsu, the Korean chaebol, and the business networks of the overseas Chinese. Such research has provided...

Cultural Protectionism.(globalization and the motion picture industry)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... With globalization has come the progressive dismantling of many formal barriers to trade and investment as well as the establishment of global markets for goods and services. Greater economic interdependence among nations has been coupled with a greater sense of interconnectedness, as...

Interfirm Diversity in Global Alliances. (Executive Briefing).(management)
November 1, 2001... Global strategic alliances join in a common cause companies headquartered in two or more countries. Andersen Consulting reports that the average corporation now manages more than 30 alliances, while many hold portfolios that contain hundreds. Alliances already account for between 6 to 15...

The Editor's Chair.(Dennis W. Organ, Business Horizons)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
November 1, 2001... Dennis W. Organ, Editor I've never fully endorsed the maxim that a picture is worth a thousand words. As an academic whose tool of choice is the verbal medium, I insist that a few well-chosen words can convey a message more precisely, reliably, and profoundly than any picture. But...