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- 1994
- Chapter
Person and Environment in Talent Development: The Case of Creativity
By: T. M. Amabile, E. Phillips and M. A. Collins
- 1994
- Book
The Making of Global Enterprises
By: G. Jones
This volume presents new insights on the history of international business. Two main themes are addressed: how and when has global business developed over the last century? and what has been its impact on host economies? The volume includes a pioneering study by Mira... View Details
- January 1994
- Article
Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962
By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock
This article draws on a new database to describe the dimensions and characteristics of 685 foreign companies which established British manufacturing subsidiaries between 1850 and 1962. The numbers of foreign companies grew from the 1890s, expanded rapidly in the... View Details
- June 1993 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
COMCO Holding AG (B): COMCO Martech
COMCO Martech was a new breed of joint venture for COMCO Holding, a mid-sized Swiss-German company that had grown over a five-year period through tie-ups with small, start-up companies. Whereas a typical COMCO venture provided services to a large German retailer, was... View Details
- Article
Environmental and Organization Context and Executive Team Characteristics
By: S. Keck and Michael Tushman
- February 1992
- Background Note
Resources: The Essence of Corporate Advantage
Introduces the idea that a firm's resources are at the heart of corporate advantage. Identifies six characteristics of a resource that together describe its potential for creating value for the firm. View Details
- January 1992
- Case
Tom Monaghan: In Business for God
Describes the personal history of Thomas Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza, his role in building the company, his strong religious convictions, and the ways those have influenced company policy. The question is when to draw lines between individuals' religious... View Details
- January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
- Case
Lexon Corp. (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine
Lexon Corp. lawyers must decide how to respond to two lawsuits challenging the company's interception of electronic mail on privacy grounds. They must also formulate a company policy on e-mail. One suit was filed by an employee dismissed from her job after asking that... View Details
- April 1991 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Southland Corp. (A)
Examines the Thompson's $4.9 billion leveraged buyout of the Southland Corp. in 1987. As the original founders of Southland, the Thompsons were concerned about losing control over the company upon learning of the Belzberg family's acquiring interest. The teaching... View Details
- May 1990 (Revised April 1991)
- Background Note
Dirty Hands
A one-paragraph excerpt from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. Describes in the words of one character, the ethical problem of "dirty hands": the problem that doing the morally superior thing in some circumstances inevitably involves doing some things that are morally wrong.... View Details
- October 1988
- Article
Implementation Characteristics in Organizational Innovations
- February 1988 (Revised August 2000)
- Background Note
Note on the U.S. Freight Transportation Industry
By: Janice H. Hammond and John E. P. Morrison
Describes the major modes of domestic freight transportation (motor carrier, rail, air, water, and pipelines). Examines the characteristics of the transportation service that each mode provides and discusses changes in the industry that have resulted from recent... View Details
- 1988
- Chapter
Creative Human Resources in the R&D Laboratory: How Environment and Personality Impact Innovation
By: T. M. Amabile and S. S. Gryskiewicz
- October 1987 (Revised January 2013)
- Background Note
Note on Free Cash Flow Valuation Models
Explores some of the issues involved in valuing cash flow streams. A simple model is presented that reveals the effect on value of changing assumptions about the appropriate discount rate, the level of profitability, the growth rate of sales, the asset intensity ratio,... View Details
- May 1987 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
John Deere Component Works (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based system that was developed to more accurately trace overhead costs to individual products. Provides students with... View Details
- February 1985 (Revised September 1988)
- Case
Komatsu Ltd.
Reviews and updates the structure and characteristics of the earth-moving equipment industry presented in the companion case, Caterpillar Tractor Co. After revealing that CAT has suffered major financial losses during the period from 1981 through 1984, the case... View Details