Business Horizons articles from November 1992

Business Horizons archives from November 1992

Ethnicity in the service of motivation. (Editorial)
November 1, 1992... I have been warned not to write this article, that it would not be correct to employ the passions of ethnicity as a management tool, and that to do so is divisive and contrary to the civic progress made over the past 20 years. But my...

Sayonara, Uddevalla? (production methods of Volvo's Uddevalla plant in Sweden)
November 1, 1992... Can Volvo's humanistic Uddevalla plant compete with the Japanese lean system? The global automobile industry will never be the same. It is entering the most competitive, innovative, stressful, and paradigm-shifting decade since its very...

Volkswagen's American assembly plant: fahrvergnugen was not enough. (international marketing)
November 1, 1992... "We pulled a big rabbit out of the hat," beamed Pennsylvania governor Milton Schapp in September 1976. Schapp was referring to the finalizing of the deal that brought Volkswagen's first American assembly plant to Pennsylvania. Local and state...

Japanese national culture as a basis for understanding Japanese business practices.
November 1, 1992... There is no shortage of articles that attempt to present keys to understanding the actions of Japanese businesses and their executives. Clearly missing from this wealth of "expert" treatises is the influence of Japanese national culture on...

Fitting socially in Fortress Europe: understanding, reaching, and impressing Europeans.
November 1, 1992... Analyses abound about the attractiveness of the markets of Europe 1992, the new restrictions that may apply to American companies, and the enhanced competition they will encounter there. These matters have to be scrutinized and translated into...

What is customer-driven marketing?
November 1, 1992... W. Edwards Deming has been warning Western managers for many years that we are in a new economic age. No longer can they conduct business as usual and expect their organizations to prosper or survive in the long term. Whereas many American...

Replacing the founder: exploding the myth of the entrepreneur's disease.
November 1, 1992... The entrepreneur holds a unique and often envied position within the business community. The notion of a risk taker who bucks the odds to build a business empire captures the twentieth century imagination in much the same way that great...

Entrepreneurial renewal. (preventing professional burnout)
November 1, 1992... Founders can kill their own businesses by suffering power failures. Fortunately the damage can be reversed. Great owner-managed companies are built in the will and wake of their entrepreneur's internsity, focus, work ethic, and capacity...

Alcohol abuse in the workplace: a managerial dilemma.
November 1, 1992... All methods of dealing with alcohol abuse have their drawbacks, but one way or another, managers must take action. The initial problem faced by all levels of supervision in dealing with alcohol abuse in the workplace is finding a realistic...

The parable of the strategic scopes. (different perspectives of the business environment)
November 1, 1992... One must have more than one view of reality to succeed. Once upon a time there were Three Kings, each of whom wanted to lead and manage a country called CEO. They all worked hard to promote themselves as the best. To become CEO King, each...

Boosting plant performance with gainsharing.
November 1, 1992... What do these manufacturers have in common: Bell & Howell, American Safety Razor, Atlas Powder, Bradley Corp., Carrier/United Technologies, Champion Container Corp., Champion Spark Plug, Cincinnati Milacron, Adolph Coors, Dover Corp., Eaton,...

Scrutiny on the Bounty: business rewards for crime tips. (offering employees a reward for helping solve a crime)
November 1, 1992... Executives surveyed think rewards are more appropriate in non-business related crimes involving their employees than in business-related ones. Business executives are sometimes confronted with criminal acts that take place on their...

The Essence of Leadership: Strategy, Innovation, and Decisiveness.
November 1, 1992... The reviewer, Joseph C. Santora, is a professor of business administration and humanities at Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey. Since the early 1980s, there has been a proliferation of books on leadership from a variety of...

The Marketing Revolution: A Radical Manifesto for Dominating the Marketplace.
November 1, 1992... The reviewer, Dan Rutledge, is an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. The promise made to the reader in The Marketing Revolution is to open "a radical manifesto for dominating the marketplace" in the...