Management Decision articles from July 1997

Management Decision archives from July 1997

Multiculturalism in a labor market with integrated economies.
July 1, 1997... Introduction Immigration and its rapid growth in the past two decades, together with the formation and consolidation of economic blocks such as the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), have brought to the...

Korean auto producers: Asia's next major force in Europe.
July 1, 1997... Introduction Ten years ago, pessimistic reports appeared in Western newspapers about the Olympic Games to be held in Seoul, the capital of South Korea in 1988. Such reports questioned the wisdom of holding such a major global event in a...

Legislation for the environment: does it work? - an empirical study into selected UK-based chemical manufacturing firms. (includes appendix)
July 1, 1997... Introduction Since the first Earth Day in 1970 which marked the beginning of the rise of global environmentalism (Bailey, 1995, p. 1), environmental consciousness among the British public has grown steadily. In a survey carried out by the...

Leadership as competence.
July 1, 1997... Introduction This article contends that leadership is a fundamental organizational competence. It defines leadership. It identifies and describes features of the context and process of leadership. It analyses key aspects of leadership...

The crisis of wealth creation.
July 1, 1997... Wealth does not exist in infinite volume, it has to be created. The creation of new wealth which is necessary to support growing social expectations is determined by the ability to create new market values in the form of a new knowledge that...

The cognitive style and strategic decisions of managers.
July 1, 1997... Introduction The importance of knowing oneself and one's competitors was already found to be extremely important in ancient war strategies. More than 2,000 years ago it was said: Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you...

Capital structure: perspectives for managers.
July 1, 1997... Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining wealth (Alfred Marshall). Introduction Thursday, 13 July 1876: The man rode through the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. He had long believed his horse his greatest asset....

International motivational differences.
July 1, 1997... Introduction International differences in work-related values The study of international differences in work-related values has been extensively carried out by Geert Hofstede. His cultural maps of the world are interpreted in four cultural...

East Asia as an independent engine of growth: prospects and implications for managers.(Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from the Region)
July 1, 1997... States that since the mid-1980s, substantial deregulation and competitive liberalization of the South-East Asian economies in their trade and investment regimes has resulted in greater integration of their economies with the North-East Asian...

A strategic perspective on overseas Chinese networks' decision-making.(Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from the Region)
July 1, 1997... Introduction Academic journals[1-4] and the popular press[5-7] have recently published a great deal about overseas Chinese networks' (hereafter referred to as the Networks) management and decision-making styles. The authors have either tried...

When the tourists flew in: strategic implications of foreign direct investment in Vietnam's tourism industry.(Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from the Region)
July 1, 1997... When the tourists flew in The Finance Minister said "It will boost the Economy The dollars will flow in." The Minister of Interior said "It will provide full and varied employment for all the indigenes." The Minister of Culture said "It...

Defending against MNC offensives: strategy of the large domestic firm in a newly liberalizing economy. (multinational corporation)(Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from the Region)
July 1, 1997... States that waves of liberalization are blowing across developing countries leading to the creation of new opportunities for multinational corporations (MNCs). Proposes that MNCs respond to such new opportunities with a set of offensive moves...

An examination of strategic foreign direct investment decision processes: the case of Taiwanese manufacturing SMEs. (small and medium-sized enterprises)(Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from the Region)
July 1, 1997... Proposes that due to the worsening business environment in Taiwan in the 1980s many manufacturing enterprises, the majority being labour-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), were moving out to other developing countries....

Skills for successful international assignments to, from and within Asia and the Pacific: implications for preparation, support and training.(Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from the Region)
July 1, 1997... First makes the case that effective preparation, support, and training for international assignments to, from or within Asia and the Pacific need to be based on sound models of the skills required to meet the challenges of those assignments for...