Journal of World Business articles from June 1999

Journal of World Business archives from June 1999

Coordinating Manufacturing and Marketing in International Firms.
June 22, 1999... During the 1990s, manufacturing managers faced intense pressures from several quarters: international competitive pressures to achieve low costs, high quality, and delivery flexibility simultaneously, organization pressures to take a more...

Cross-National Diversity: Implications for International Expansion Decisions.
June 22, 1999... Managing diversity for productivity" and "the globalization imperative" are among the buzzsayings of the 1990s, with the implication that the successful firm of the new millennium will have to be global, and thus of necessity, effective at...

Combinative Capabilities and Organizational Learning in Latecomer Firms: The Case of the Korean Semiconductor Industry.
June 22, 1999... The dynamic of world business is expressed in the shifts in competitive advantage between firms and nations. But what accounts for these shifts? How do some newly industrialized countries like Korea or Taiwan successfully generate completely...

International Performance of Multinationals: A Hybrid Model.
June 22, 1999... Despite rapidly growing international investment by multinational firms over the past two decades, little research has been reported on the determinants of international performance. There are two principal approaches to examining the...

The Euro Versus the U.S. Dollar: An Overview.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1999... While enterprises worldwide have been preoccupied with the millennium bug, they have paid scant attention to another event of much greater long-term significance. Exactly 1 year before the year 2000 blazes its trail over worldwide computer...

What are the Functions of Corporate Home Pages?(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1999... No one is quite sure how many people use the Internet, but estimates for the United States place the figure somewhere in the 20-50 million range (Reynolds, 1998). U.S. on-line advertising revenue, about $940 million in 1997, was expected to...