American Journal of Business: Volume 1 Issue 1

Global Marketing: A New Manifest Destiny?

Charles T. Crespy

Recent years have witnessed a “global” evangelism that has permeated both the trade and the academic press. The global doctrine has emerged as a new manifest destingy heralding…

Steel Marketing in Japan

Kiyoshi Kawahito

Domestic marketing of steel products by Japanese stell firms is a subjet little‐known to non‐Japanese analysts. This article examines the practices of steel sales, distribution…

The Japanese Phenomenon Without Stereotypes, and What We Can Learn from It (Part I)

James A. Lee

Most of the efforts to analyze the Japanese phenomenon have been in one way or another superficial or misguided. Moreover, there have been so many of them that most of us are…

Retirement Plans for the Self‐Employed Small Business Owner

Raj Padmaraj, Kenneth Balinski, Josef Blass

With the enactment of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Acts of 1982 (TEFRA) a number of legislative changes were introduced in the self‐employed business person’s…

Probability Assessment in Small Business

Jatinder N.D. Gupta, David F. Dianich

Many practical decision problems in small business involve situations where complexities of the situation and uncertainty of future outcomes require rational analysis. This paper…

Changing Computer Technology: What Can Managers Do?

Jo Ann Verdin, Anthony M. Pagano

Office tasks of typing, filing, scheduling and mailing have been increasingly automated over the past ten years. By the 1990s, 20‐38 million of the 50 million office jobs will be…

J. Dwight Peterson and the Rescue of City Securities Corporation 1930‐1940

E. Bruce Geelhoed

American business historians now posses a well‐established collection of literature relating to the investment banking industry. Due to excellent studies written by Robert Sobel…