Business Horizons articles from November 1995

Business Horizons archives from November 1995

Argue with success. (success can mask business weaknesses)(Column)
November 1, 1995... As a budding baseball fan in the 1950s, I hated the Yankees. I hated them because they always won. They always got the big hit, the double play, the "career year" from a critical player, that enabled them to put to rout those who presumed to...

The legacy of leadership revisited. (traits of successful executives)
November 1, 1995... Leaders have been studied extensively in terms of traits, behaviors, situations, and, currently, their ability to be transformational. Despite this effort, though, there is no "simple pattern of traits" that defines leadership. The evidence for a...

Managing change in business: views from the ancient past.
November 1, 1995... The sentiment was uttered by the ancient Greek thinker, Heraclitus, more than 2,000 years ago: "Everything is born in strife and is in constant flux; and whatever lives, lives by destroying something else." But it could just as easily have been...

Learning to change. (in business)
November 1, 1995... A colleague and I recently examined the "Letters to the Shareholders" from about 50 corporate annual reports to try to understand what is on corporate leaders' minds. What we found is that leaders today are preoccupied with changing the way their...

People and their organizations: rethinking the assumptions.
November 1, 1995... "Come gather round, people, wherever you roam, And admit that the waters around you have grown. You'd better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone, For the times they are a'changin'." --Bob Dylan The ways in which organizations...

A corporation by any other name ...?(naming or renaming a firm)
November 1, 1995... A company's name is the cornerstone of its identity, the foundation for communicating its image. Most firms are well aware of the importance of their names, and do not consider them to be of mere cosmetic value. It is a strategic issue that has...

Forms of address and status leveling in organizations.
November 1, 1995... Within the past decade and a half, programs of employee involvement have become more and more common in business organizations. Most such programs entail some decentralization of decision-making authority along with greater employee participation...

Outsourcing in distribution: the growth in importance of transportation brokers.(survey)
November 1, 1995... The licensed transportation brokerage business has experienced phenomenal growth during the past two decades. In 1975 there were 70 transportation brokers licensed by the Interstate Commerce Commission., by 1988 the number had exploded to...

Success strategies for Russian-foreign joint ventures.
November 1, 1995... There is no question that starting a joint venture in Russia is not for the faint of heart. International joint ventures, or IJVs, in Russia must deal with a weak infrastructure, an unstable environment, constantly changing legislation,...

Internationalization of American business programs: case study Ukraine.
November 1, 1995... Ukraine, like other former Soviet republics, is in great need of a variety of economic, political, and social reforms. In the realm of economics, serious progress toward reform has been impeded because important policy makers either continue to...

Managing in the age of the mass merchant. (chain mega-stores wield power in the marketplace)
November 1, 1995... Since coming into prominence in the early 1980s, mass merchants have grown to play a crucial role in today's marketplace. These dynamic retailing firms, which have broken traditional rules, now hold a commanding position in many markets. In their...

Selling your service business.
November 1, 1995... Downsizing? Rightsizing? Whatever the term used, the realization that jobs are disappearing has clearly entered the consciousness of U.S. managers and professionals in all fields. Many may ponder what to do about the genuine likelihood of being...

Bring Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe.
November 1, 1995... Reviews of current books discussing subjects on the horizon of business activities, particularly those on controversial issues being encountered by both practitioners and teachers, will be considered for publication. Manuscript guidelines are...

Leading With Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit.
November 1, 1995... The reviewer, William Howe, is an assistant professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. Had enough of the traditional social science and business management accounts of leadership? Tired of the...

Scuttle Your Ships Before Advancing.
November 1, 1995... The reviewer, Ma Guoping; is a graduate student at the Center for Information Media at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota. The study of history has seldom been a concern in the business community. However, this may no longer remain the case...