Business Horizons articles from March 2000

Business Horizons archives from March 2000

And the winners are[ldots].
March 1, 2000... In the last Editor's Chair of 1999, I asked for your vote on the ten individuals who most influenced management thought in the twentieth century. The following notables, in alphabetical order, are the people you chose: Alfred Chandler ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DIGEST.
March 1, 2000... Empirical research addressing corporate governance issues continues to gain considerable attention. In this, our third annual Corporate Governance Digest, we provide an overview of the dominant research themes this past year. They include CEO...

Reengineering U.S. Environmental Protection.
March 1, 2000... Nearly three decades after the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, there is growing consensus that the current system of protecting the environment is inappropriate for meeting the challenges ahead, and needs to be overhauled....

Airline Marketing Alliances and U.S. Competition Policy: Does the Consumer Benefit?
March 1, 2000... When Northwest, the fifth largest U.S. airline (measured by passenger market share), and Continental, the nation's fourth largest, announced their planned "strategic global alliance" on January 26, 1998, the domestic era of major carrier...

Outsourcing Services: The Contract Is Just the Beginning.
March 1, 2000... It is not surprising that the comic strip characters Dilbert, a known cynic of business practices, and Cathy, who satirizes social mores, both parody the concept of outsourcing. In many ways, outsourcing has changed not just the face of the...

The Manager's Guide to Supply Chain Management.
March 1, 2000... "Competition makes the world go around. The only way to guarantee a supplier's attention to cost, service, and innovation is the ever-present threat of losing us as a customer." Vice President of Purchasing for a major steel company in...

Managing Global Expansion: A Conceptual Framework.
March 1, 2000... There are at least five reasons why the need to become global has ceased to be a discretionary option and become a strategic imperative for virtually any medium-sized to large corporation. 1. The Growth Imperative. Companies have no choice...

An Emerging Green Market in China: Myth or Reality?(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... An awareness of environmental degradation has been a long time coming in China. Since declaring its open-door policy in late 1978, China has been paying a high ecological price for its rapid economic growth in terms of worsening pollution and...

Trade in Thailand: A Three-Way Cultural Comparison.
March 1, 2000... Hundreds of definitions have been ascribed to the term "culture." Schiffman and Kanuk (1997) define it simply as the sum total of learned beliefs, values, and customs that guide the behavior of members of a certain society. Culture can exist at...

Seeing Red Over International Gray Markets.
March 1, 2000... International gray markets are imports by an unauthorized party that result in the parallel distribution of a manufacturer's product through an unplanned channel. This channel performs the same functions as planned channels. However, a product...