Publications

1987
Chapter

State Trading and the Futures Market

By: James E. Austin and Kenneth L. Hoadley

Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Government and Politics; Financial Markets

spring 1987
Article

Second-Sourcing and the Experience Curve: Price Competition in Defense Procurement

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao

We examine a dynamic model of price competition in defense procurement that incorporates the experience curve, asymmetric cost information, and the availability of a higher cost alternative system. We model acquisition as a two-stage process in which initial production... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Government and Politics; Price; Competition; Mathematical Methods

Purchase

1987
Book

Food Policy in Mexico: The Search for Self Sufficiency

By: James E. Austin and Gustavo Esteva

Keywords: Food; Policy; Mexico

August 1986
Case

Dow Indonesia (A), Software Case

By: James E. Austin and Louis T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Indonesia

July 1986
Case

Nicaragua and the U.S. Trade Embargo

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Policy; International Relations; Nicaragua; United States

July 1986
Article

Management, Managers and Revolution

By: James E. Austin and J.C. Ickis

Keywords: Management

1986
Chapter

Food Marketing Public Enterprises

By: James E. Austin and Michael J. Buckley

Keywords: Food; Marketing; Distribution; Public Sector; Government and Politics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

May–June 1986
Article

Managing After the Revolutionaries Have Won

By: James E. Austin and John C. Ickis

Keywords: Management; Change

April 1986 (Revised June 1986)
Supplement

Mexico and the Microcomputers (B)

By: James E. Austin and Dennis J. Encarnation III

April 1986 (Revised June 1986)
Supplement

Mexico and the Microcomputers (C)

By: James E. Austin and Dennis J. Encarnation III

April 1986 (Revised June 1986)
Case

Mexico and the Microcomputers (A)

By: James E. Austin and Dennis J. Encarnation III

Keywords: Computer Industry; Mexico

spring 1986
Book Review

Book Review of No Free Lunch: Food and Revolution in Cuba Today, edited by Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins, and Michael Scott in Calories Count in Cuba

Keywords: Food; Government and Politics; Cuba

September 1985 (Revised October 1988)
Case

NIKE in China

By: James E. Austin and Francis Aguilar

Nike is reviewing its strategy for producing shoes in China for the U.S. market. Compares the experience in China with that in other countries. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Production; Manufacturing Industry; China; United States

May 1985
Article

SAM is dead - long live SAM

By: James E. Austin and Gustavo Esteva

1985
Book

Gender Roles in Development Projects: A Case Book

By: Catherine Overholt, Mary B. Anderson, Kathleen Cloud and James E. Austin

Keywords: Gender; Growth and Development; Projects; Books

1985
Chapter

Small-Scale Enterprise and Women

By: James E. Austin and Maryanne Dulansey

Keywords: Business Ventures; Gender

February 1985 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling and James Wallace

How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating In Health Care course book. This note and case series enables readers to conduct... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Valuation; Health Industry; Retail Industry

Educators

Purchase

1985
Article

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