Table of contents
INTEGRATING STRATEGIES FOR CLUSTERS OF BUSINESSES
Donald F. Heany, Gerald WeissU.S. corporations have been paying attention to strategic planning at the line‐of‐business level. However, something more is needed. According to the authors, strategic planning…
EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: ONE ROAD TO PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT
Samuel J. DavyMany American companies in mature industries have become uncompetitive because restrictive work practices and labor costs have outstripped productivity. One answer to the dilemma…
A FOUR‐PHASED RESCUE PLAN FOR TODAY'S TROUBLED COMPANIES
Patrick F. DolanIn the wake of unprecedented numbers of company failures, many businesses are now scrambling to elude a similar fate. The author offers a program for rescuing today's troubled…
RETAILING STRATEGIES IN INFLATIONARY TIMES
Michael Etgar, Paul ShrivastavaAlthough inflation has abated somewhat in the United States, its specter still looms on the horizon. Indeed, inflation is expected to remain endemic to most advanced nations in…
LINKING CORPORATE STOCK PRICE PERFORMANCE TO STRATEGY FORMULATION
Ben Branch, Bradley GaleThe price of a company's stock affects many aspects of its operations, ranging from access to capital to executive compensation to acquisition strategy. Unfortunately, too few…
GAINING INSIGHTS THROUGH STRATEGY ANALYSIS
George DayThe past decade has seen widespread adoption of specific strategy analysis methods ranging from PIMS to portfolio management. Recently, disenchantment has set in. The answer lies…
EFFECTIVE INNOVATION MANAGEMENT: MISSING LINK IN STRATEGIC PLANNING?
Michael A. McGinnis, M. Robert AckelsbergFollowing World War II, American corporations enjoyed twenty‐five years of prosperity and technological dominance. That has changed dramatically in recent times. Management has to…
The Rescue and Resuscitation of Chrysler
Lee A. IacoccaWhen I came to Chrysler in 1979, the Michigan State Fairgrounds were jammed with thousands of unsold, unwanted, rusting Chryslers, Dodges, and Plymouths. Foreign operations were…
The Issues in Japan‐U.S. Economic Relations
W. Michael BlumenthalOver the last twenty or thirty years, in spite of the frictions and difficulties that have arisen from time to time, economic relations between the United States and Japan have…
Confronting the Communications Revolution
Joseph L. DionneIn today's fast‐changing business environment, decisionmaking has become increasingly complex. Managers must juggle data on resources, costs, inflation and disinflation, market…
Managing Change: How Dayton Hudson Meets the Challenge
Kenneth A. MackeThe ability to manage change is an important challenge for any business, but a particularly critical one for a retailer—whose business is to serve as the purchasing agent for an…
“Debranding”: A Product Strategy With Profit Potential
A. ParasuramanThe growing consumer demand for, and acceptance of, so‐called no‐name brands of a variety of food, as well as nonfood, products—from cooking oil to cotton swabs, tomato juice to…
TO Grow … or Not to Grow …?
Milton LauensteinOr not to grow? Can this be a serious question? Is there a company that does not embrace growth as a principal objective? The thesis of this column is that in many companies…
Tools for Managing in Mature Operations
William C. NapperLike many midwestern companies that decades ago started business in industries now considered basic, Borg‐Warner currently has a number of strategic business units in mature…
ISSN:
0275-6668Renamed from:
Business Strategy SeriesOnline date, start – end:
1980Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Ms Nanci Healy