Business Horizons articles from September 1997

Business Horizons archives from September 1997

Accountant and economist? Confessions of a professional hybrid.
September 1, 1997... A battle-scared double agent from the "cold war" finds that economists and accountants can learn from each other. When I decided (with a little help) a number of years ago that the time had come to begin work on a PhD, I never guessed the...

Ten strategic audit questions.
September 1, 1997... Use these questions as a springboard to transcend linear planning, hard-vs.-soft criteria, and the scientific method. In other words, think strategically. It would be erroneous to maintain that strategy as a concept is new. In fact, it is...

The emergence of consumer power in China.
September 1, 1997... Armed with more disposable income and developing tastes, Chinese consumers are having their say in shaping the directions of this huge and growing retail market. Volumes have been written about the monumental experiment in economic reform...

Scaling the Great Wall: the Yin and Yang of resolving business conflicts in China.
September 1, 1997... A philosophy of push and pull, compete and cooperate, may sound contradictory to many Americans, but it is the basis for attaining success in doing business with the Chinese. There has always been an air of mystery about China, a land so...

Maverick thinking in open-book firms: the challenge for financial executives.
September 1, 1997... More than just a fad, OBM is attracting growing interest from open-minded firms seeking innovative ways to confront fierce competitive pressures. In a December 1995 article in Financial Executive, Robert Falconi characterized open-book...

Capital structure decisions: what have we learned?
September 1, 1997... Were Modigliani and Miller right forty years ago? The determination of an optimal capital structure has been one of the most contentious topics in the finance literature since Modigliani and Miller (MM) introduced their capital structure...

Separate and unequal: the nature of women's and men's career-building relationships.
September 1, 1997... From mentoring to networks, from the home front to the links, successful men and women executives tend to take quite different paths to top. Share a joke with the guys in the locker room after a lunchtime racquetball game. Take your wife to...

True teams or tag teams?
September 1, 1997... Putting the right kind of teams in place can equal the difference between failure and success. When AT&T/GIS--formerly, and now again, known as NCR--attempted to implement teams across the division during its brief period as a subsidiary of...

Quality system chaining: the next link in the evolution of quality.
September 1, 1997... Normally competing firms have begun to cooperate and "integrate and quality" by designing and chaining their quality management systems in this, the fifth era of the quality story. Like Darwin's concept of continual evolution in developing...

The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus.
September 1, 1997... 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 ore...

Employee Participation in Europe.
September 1, 1997... The reviewer, Alfred Diamant, is a professor of political science and West European studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Although the two books under review would seem to deal with different and contrasting issues on two...

What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less Educated Workers.
September 1, 1997... The reviewer, Alfred Diamant, is a professor of political science and West European studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Although the two books under review would seem to deal with different and contrasting issues on two...

Mean Business: How I Saved Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great.
September 1, 1997... The reviewer, Robert D. Gulbro, is a professor of management at Athens State College, Athens, Alabama. This bestseller was penned by a CEO who has worked for several firms and has run more than one successfully. Written for management scholars...