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This article reports the results of a study of innovation and product development at 245 manufacturing sites in the UK and Germany. It examines the relationship between design and performance and the competitiveness of the UK and Germany in design and manufacturing. Overall, few sites reached “world‐class” standards ‐ 9% in Germany and 3% in the UK, although many sites were not far below these st

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1996.tb00127.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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This case history of British Steel Corporation (BSC) is based on personal experience: the author was advisor to the Chairmen between 1976 and 1981 ‐ the period when the company, still publicly owned, adopted the critical measures on which the turnaround was founded. BSC has been a model for a successful heavy industry turnaround and subsequent privatisation, even if some of its circumstances were unique. This article argues that it was the management rather than government which created the framework for change and that the steel strike of 1980, seen at the time as a disaster, became the watershed for fundamental change. Several of the principal actors achieved effects which were the opposite of what they intended: the article is about irony as well as stee

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1996.tb00128.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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Transnational bribery has sometimes been seen by companies as an unavoidable part of the price of “getting the deal”. As this article indicates, allegations concerning bribery ‐ which may or may not be valid in specific instances ‐ are common in many industries and many countries; and despite moves to curb it, especially in the USA, it may still be increasing. This article describes the steps which have been taken so far in the OECD and elsewhere to tackle it, ending with the author's own assessment of the most realistic programme for

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1996.tb00129.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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“Manufacturing good, marketing bad” was the official view in the Soviet Union ‐ with dire economic results. Even in the market economies, tax authorities are prone to take the Soviet

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1996.tb00130.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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This second 1996 Stockton Lecture focuses on poverty as a cause of international conflict ‐ and on what businesses can do or avoid doing to reduce it. Poverty, Roddick argues, fuels revolution. And while the western armaments industry is especially to blame, big institutions like the World Bank and the multinationals have all contributed to causing conflict. Her answers to the problem include more “microenterprise” and fair trading initiatives by multinationals in local communities in the developing world. Her central message is that business “must not only avoid hideous evil; it must actively d

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1996.tb00131.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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To minimise conflict between cultures, you must first analyse ‐ measure even ‐ the differences between them. That is the starting point for the third 1996 Stockton Lecture, reproduced here. The author identifies seven dimensions by which cultures can be distinguished from each otherwhich he defines as: Universalism versus Particularism; Collectivism versus Individualism; Affective versus Neutral relationships; Specificity versus Diffuseness; Achievement versus Ascription; Orientation towards Time; and Internal versus External Control. According to Dr Trompenaars, “Culture is the manner in which these dilemmas are reconciled, since every nation seeks a different and winding path to its own ideals of integrity.” Not only will conflict be reduced by this reconciliation, he argues, but businesses “will succeed to the extent that this reconciliatio

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1996.tb00132.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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This feature summarises recent working papers which are of particular relevance to managers or policy makers. They are listed in alphabetical order by first author.

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1996.tb00133.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0955-6419    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8616.1996.tb00126.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY