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Reading the wind: how middle managers assess the context for selling issues to top managers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1997-05)
Issue selling is an important mechanism for creating change initiatives in organizations. This paper presents two studies that examine what middle managers think about as they decide whether or not to sell strategic issues ...
How Relationality Shapes Business and Its Ethics
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-09)
Just as Michael Porter's “five forces” provided a practical analytical tool for describing the forces that shape competitive strategy, so business ethicists ought to provide business leaders with a workable framework for ...
Work–family conflicts of women in the Air Force: their influence on mental health and functioning
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999-11)
This paper examined the effects of work and family stressors and conflicts on Air Force women's mental health and functioning. We analyzed data from a 1993 survey of representative stratified samples of 525 Air Force women ...
Evolutionary diffusion: internal and external methods used to acquire encompassing, complementary, and incremental technological changes in the lithotripsy industry
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1998-11)
This study links theories concerning methods that firms use to acquire technology with theories concerning types of technological change. We place particular emphasis on interorganizational relationships. We predict that ...
Ethics vs. economics: The issue of free trade with Mexico
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-04)
The authors, one an ethicist and the other an economist, look at the issue of free trade with Mexico and other low wage rate countries from the viewpoints of their disciplines. The conclusion of the paper is that these ...
Female labour force participation, fertility and public policy in Sweden
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-09)
This paper analyzes the role of public policy for Sweden's combination of high female labour force participation and high levels of fertility in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We present the central elements in the tax ...
An analysis of corporate ethical code studies: “Where do we go from here?”
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-01)
The dramatic increase in the number of corporate ethical codes over the past 20 years has been attributed to the Watergate scandal and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Ethical codes differ somewhat from profesional codes ...
Firm and environmental influences on the mode and sequence of foreign research and development activities
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1998-02)
This paper develops an explanation for the mode and sequence of entry that firms select for their international research and development activities. The hypotheses are based on the internalization and evolutionary theory ...
A Question of Power: Hydro-Quebec and the Great Whale Controversy a 35 Minute Video for in-Class Use
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-07)
A very large hydroelectric generating project has been proposed for the northern regions of Quebec. Numerous benefits will be derived from this project: inexpensive power, reduced pollution, and improved quality of life. ...
If HR were really strategically proactive: Present and future directions in HR's contribution to competitive advantage
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)
Current business conditions mandate greater competitive advantage from HR agendas and processes. To add greater competitive advantage, HR must contribute strategic value against criteria from customer and capital markets. ...