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How To Create a Corporate Competitive Intelligence System
N. Carroll MohnVirtually all managers acknowledge the importance of understanding their competition in the marketplace. As a result, interest has grown rapidly in formalizing competitive…
Do Small Firm Leveraged Buyouts Add Value to the U.S. Economy?
David S. KrauseFollowing a discussion of the theory of entrepreneurship, this article explains why small firm leveraged buyouts are likely to produce more innovative, efficient, and profitable…
Rediscovering Creativity ‐ Unlearning Old Habits
Frank J. SabatineCreativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship are “buzz words” frequently used by American business professionals when discussing the question of how to adapt to our rapidly…
Is In‐Substance Defeasance of Debt Too Good To Be True?
Barbara Apostolou, Raymond JeffordsMany managers have taken advantage of the benefits associated with engaging in in‐substance defeasance of debt. For example, defeasance can generatea ccounting gains that result…
An MIS Design Framework for Financial Planning and Budgeting Systems
Roger L. Hayen, Richard L. Hartley, Edward J. FisherVirtually all businesses must perform financial planning and budgeting. The paper presents a normative design framework for developing a management information system to support…
Criteria For Excellence In Organization Development: Perceptions and Actualities
Albert S. KingThis article presents a comparative survey of organization evaluations of criteria for management excellence and their relevance to developing business organizations. The…
Union Officer Perspectives on Quality of Worklife
Brian P. Heshizer, Harry J. MartinAnalysis of the responses of 131 local union officers to a questionnaire found that a number of variables are related to the attitudes of union leaders toward quality of worklife…
Difficult Management Training: Will it Fly in the USA?
Gene MurkisonBuilding on the work of Berlew and Hall (1966),who found significant positive relationships between the difficulty of first jobs and later managerial success, this study of…
A Financial Profile of Firms Favored by Institutional Investors
Bruce C. PayneFor years institutional investors have concentrated their holdings of common stock in a relatively small group, the “institutional favorites.” While the market performance and…
Patterns of Error and Neglect in Security Analyst Forecasts
Richard J. DowenIt is well documented that firms that are neglected by analysts and large institutions provide superior investment performance. This paper studies whether that effect is caused by…
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