Business Horizons articles from January 1999

Business Horizons archives from January 1999

The editor's chair.(editorial coverage of Business Horizons journal)(Editorial)
January 1, 1999... James Naisbitt based his identification of megatrends on a monthly content analysis of several thousand local newspapers. He and his staff counted the number of column inches devoted to the coverage of various kinds of events. Megatrends...

Leveraging the Web for corporate success.(World Wide Web)
January 1, 1999... Beyond merely adding sales, the World Wide Web can enrich long-term corporate value and competitiveness as a solid part of a firm's strategic plan. If there is one thing management can count on in today's world, it's another person...

Cyberservice: taming service marketing problems with the World Wide Web.
January 1, 1999... Here comes mass customization to the rescue. And you thought marketing your services was going to be hard.... In many of the world's advanced economies, services today account for a far greater proportion of gross national product than...

Sales managers: marketing's best example of the Peter Principle?
January 1, 1999... It's time to update the venerable job of managing the sales force. Corporate bottom lines depend heavily on the effectiveness of sales managers. Czinkota, Kotabe, and Mercer (1997) contend that the sales manager's responsibility for...

Ganbatte: understanding the Japanese employee.
January 1, 1999... Dependent, diligent, hard-working, and committed - there is more to the unhappy Japanese worker than the West tends to perceive. Since the early 1970s, various research findings coming from Japan on employees' work attitudes and job...

Organizational learning in China.
January 1, 1999... In this newly opened market, experience and historical data are limited and government policies are perpetually changing. Foreign investors must learn as they go. Despite thorough planning, many foreign-owned companies today are having a...

Dangerous directives? Liability and the unstable worker.
January 1, 1999... How can an employer comply with the EEOC's psychiatric guidelines in an era of workplace violence and negligent hiring litigation? These hiring strategies and practices offer a way. In March 1998, on a late winter's day in Newington,...

The use and abuse of power in supply chains.(includes related articles on supply chain partners)
January 1, 1999... "Channel bullies" can be turned into allies through cooperative measures that strengthen a supply chain and benefit all its members. The ability of groups of companies to perform the spectrum of supply functions more efficiently than one...

Accounting choices and EVA.(Economic Value Added)
January 1, 1999... Is Economic Value Added the "magic bullet" it has been hyped to be? Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the accounting construct known as Economic Value Added (EVA[R]). The September 27, 1993 cover story of Fortune declared...

Just what is an Ideation Group?(industrial design group of Haworth Inc.)
January 1, 1999... ideation n: the capacity for or the act of forming or entertaining ideas. - Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary Back in 1948, G.W. Haworth started a small furniture business in Holland, Michigan, leaving a high-school teaching career...

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Ron Chernow As everyone knows, Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, is a billionaire. His push for power and control in the software industry is constantly in the news and is being watched closely by many. When the government states its case,...

aol.com: How Steve Case beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Kara Swisher Here is a book for anyone interested in computers, the Internet, technology, business comebacks, or how to succeed after everyone else has given up. aol.com documents the history of America Online and its major players, all...

The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus: Practical Lessons for Today.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Charles C. Manz Early in his work, Charles Manz, the Nirenberg Professor of Business Leadership at the University of Massachusetts, points out that his intention is not to preach or to convert readers. Although his book is based on...