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Issue 1, 1990

Proprietary Technology: The Next Challenge for the NICs

The future economic success of the Asia Pacific region is predicated on developing and sustaining a successful manufacturing sector. This must include not only primary processing and secondary manufacturing, in which the region has considerable experience, but the development of proprietary...
Issue 4, 1990

Redefining the Corporation

In recent years, a great many corporations have been reshaping - or at least attempting to reshape - themselves, with varying degrees of success. In North America, at least, the 1980s could easily end up being called the Decade of Downsizing. Reasons for this trend include deregulation, volatile...
Issue 1, 1990

Viewpoint Beyond Tiananmen: Is There a Future for Foreign...

The recent events in China's Tiananmen Square sent a deep shudder through the boardrooms of many firms in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. While most foreign companies doing business in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have felt somewhat uneasy about making significant commitments...
Issue 4, 1990

Viewpoint What Executives Need to Learn

Executives who understand their work in terms of a flow of information are still a very small minority. Most of us continue to use computers primarily to do things we have always done - that is, to crunch numbers. Information - which means the right knowledge to take effective action - is still...
Issue 3, 1990

Toward Effective Supplier Management: International...

The purchasing function is acquiring high priority in the eyes of senior management for a number of reasons. First, increasingly global strategies for marketing and manufacturing require equally global approaches to sourcing. The skills and knowledge required for effective worldwide sourcing are...
Issue 3, 1990

Industry/Government Partnering: Toward a New Industrial...

Confronted with an increasingly competitive business environment at both national and international levels, corporations of all sizes are finding collaboration, teaming, and partnering more and more important, both tactically and strategically. Corporations increasingly recognize that the larger-...
Issue 3, 1990

Viewpoint The Other Germany: An Open Door to Europe and...

"With German unification apparently imminent, there is a danger that Americans will adopt a passive attitude towards commercial relations with the German Democratic Republic (GDR). European and Japanese firms, however, are not waiting for unification, but are moving quickly and decisively to take...
Issue 2, 1990

How the Japanese Manage Risk

Americans hear so much about Japan as the success story of the international economy, they sometimes forget that the Japanese have economic problems of their own. Japan has its declining industries such as steel and its low-wage competitors such as South Korea and Taiwan. And in an era of fast-...
Issue 2, 1990

Corporate Management of a Major Crisis

The way a company manages a major crisis can literally spell the difference between life and death - both for the immediate victims of the crisis and for the company itself. Over the past decade, several major crises have had severe environmental, health, and safety consequences, as well as drastic...
Issue 1, 1990

Strategic Alliances in High-Tech Industries

As the next century approaches, significant trends now emerging in global economics and technology will have major implications for corporate international strategies. While Europe and North America are forming stronger regional trading blocs, Western firms are also pursuing increasingly attractive...