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Business Communication and Architecture
(SAGE PERIODICALS PRESS, 1996)
Visual persuasion in constructing buildings is often a part of business strategy. Architects, for instance, try to link corporate goals with management's desire for company buildings to represent, for instance, the mission, ...
The Effects of CEO Succession and Tenure on Failure of Rural Community Hospitals
(Sage Publications, 1996)
Little research has examined the independent and interactive effects of CEO succession and tenure on organizational failure. In this study, the authors found independent effects of CEO succession and tenure on organizational ...
Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders
(Sage Publications, 1996)
The article describes a field study of a large-scale management development program designed to stimulate middle managerial change. The development of a change typology suggests that middle managers are capable of making ...
Determining transfer batch sizes in trip-based material handling systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-10)
Trip-based material handling systems such as AGV systems or lift trucks are often designed with a given flow matrix (or from-to chart), which typically shows the number of loaded trips that the devices must perform per ...
The GMAT Analytical Writing Assessment: Opportunitw or Threat for Management Communication?
(Sage Publications, 1996)
Instituted as a regular part of the GMAT in October 1994, the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) has the potential to serve as a diagnostic tool in MBA programs. This article describes the new test and reviews the uses ...
The Income Tax Compliance Cost of Big Business
(Sage Publications, 1996)
A survey of 1,329 of the largest corporations m the United States reveals that the average annual cost of compliance with federal and subfederal corporation income taxes is approximately $1.565 million, implying an aggregate ...
Improved methods for the determination of hansen's solubility parameters and the estimation of solvent uptake for lightly crosslinked polymers
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1996-12-19)
Two new methods for determining Hansen's three-dimensional solubility parameters (3DSP) for lightly crosslinked polymers are presented and evaluated using commercial glove materials composed of butyl, natural, nitrile, and ...
Strategic alliances and interfirm knowledge transfer
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1996-12)
This paper examines interfirm knowledge transfers within strategic alliances. Using a new measure of changes in alliance partners' technological capabilities, based on the citation patterns of their patent portfolios, we ...