Business Horizons articles from March 2001

Business Horizons archives from March 2001

The Great Restructuring of 1787-1789.(contributions of Founding Fathers to US management theory)
March 1, 2001... Of the books I've seen on the history of management thought, I can't recall any mention of the "Founding Fathers" of America's federal era. Chroniclers of U.S. contributions to management concepts usually start with Frederick Taylor, with some...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DIGEST.
March 1, 2001... We are delighted to provide the fourth annual Corporate Governance Digest. Several themes continue to be central to research in this field. A few others occur with less frequency, but with no less importance. The dominant themes for the past...

E-Commerce in the U.S. and Europe--Is Europe Ready to Compete?
March 1, 2001... Electronic commerce, or e-commerce--the latest buzzword in business--is the online exchange of value, without geographical or time restrictions, between companies and their partners, employees, or customers. Nua (2000), an Internet survey firm,...

The Art and Science of Synergy: The Case of the Auto Industry.
March 1, 2001... The literature in the field of management tends to adopt the following axiomatic premise: To justify the inclusion of a business unit in the corporate portfolio, the business and/or the rest of the corporation must be better off. Early...

Competitiveness and Sales Management: A Marriage of Strategies.
March 1, 2001... Sales management focuses largely on the short term. Indeed, the long term may not even exist if yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, or even daily sales targets are not met. This myopic vision of sales personnel in concentrating on immediate...

Personal Knowledge, Corporate Information: The Challenges for Competitive Intelligence.
March 1, 2001... Personal knowledge and corporate information are two concepts that summarize the ways in which a company "knows" what has happened and what to do next. A great deal of a company's intellectual resources reside in the heads of its workers as...

Trust in the Networked Economy: Doing Business on Web Time.
March 1, 2001... "[Building bridges between manufacturers and their suppliers] requires unprecedented levels of trust and commitment in placing the fate of a company in the hands of people who aren't even employees." Davidow and Malone (1992) "Trust...

Pricing Strategy and the Net.
March 1, 2001... Among marketing mix variables, price alone directly affects a firm's revenue. Setting prices is a critical issue managers face. Traditional economic theory argues that decision makers are rational, and that managers will set prices to maximize...

Disintermediation in Question: New Economy, New Networks, New Middlemen.
March 1, 2001... Traditionally, disintermediation has been defined as a development that enables households to bypass banks and place their savings directly with other types of financial institutions. In the context of the Web, it has come to signify the...

Product Liability: Its Impact on the Auto Industry, Consumers, and Global Competitiveness.
March 1, 2001... From its beginnings in the Industrial Revolution, the growth in the large-scale manufacture of goods for mass consumption has led to the familiar benefits of the modern consumer society. However, a darker side has also been revealed--of...

The Effects of Adopting Cash-Balance Pension Plans.
March 1, 2001... In the mid-1980s, a newly designed pension plan, the cash-balance plan, was introduced to businesses in the United States. Since that time, more than 300 large companies have shifted their pension plans from the traditional defined-benefit...