American Journal of Business: Volume 3 Issue 1

The Impregnable Japanese Market: Fact or Fiction?

Rustan Kosenko

Japanese trade barriers purportedly contribute to the escalating US trade deficit with Japan. But Japan’s trade barriers are no more restrictive than those found in the US. Many…

The Role of Foreign Trade Zones in Business Strategy

Don R. Beeman, Sharon L. Magill

This article discusses the competitive advantage firms can derive from the wise utilization of foreign trade zones. Recent environmental changes which have necessitated an…

Foreign Trade Zones: The Mid‐American Experience

Zahir A. Quraeshi, Inayat U. Mangla, Mushtaq Luqmani

Foreign trade zone (FTZ) usage in the United States has increased substantially in this decade. This paper discusses the major reasons for that increase, which include a…

Insiders Can Disclose and Trade – Or Can They?

Monojit Ghosal, Kenneth L. Stanley

The article addresses the rather ambiguous doctrine of “disclose or abstain” with respect to insider trading. A brief review of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and court cases…

Bank Holding Company Dividend Policies and Share Prices

Adi S. Karna, Duane B. Graddy

This paper analyzes the relationship between dividend policy and the rate of return on bank holding company (BHC) stocks. We hypothesize that the representative investor in BHC…

Cost Finding and control for Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Zachariah Mathew, Yunus Kathawala

The use of robots to supplant direct labor, automated materials handling, computer controlled flexible manufacturing systems which are capable of producing a number of products…

The Financial Accounting System Viewed as a Control System

Neil A. Wilner

This paper views the outputs of the accounting information system as elements of a control system. These outputs may be of a financial accounting nature as well as a managerial…

The Expert System as a Decision Support Tool

Lawrence O. Jenicke

The commercial application of expert systems indicates a role for this technology as a competitive tool in a wise variety of business activities. The ability of an expert system…

The Power Index: A Tool for Achieving Proper Representation on Key Management Committees

Edward Blocher, Chee W. Chow

This paper describes a technique called the power index which a manager can use to evaluate the distribution of influence on key management committees. The important evaluation…