What the info superhighway means for business. (Cover
Story)
The evolution of communications technologies is a history of business
opportunity. Whenever people are presented with a richer means to stay
in touch, they tend to seize it.
In 1924, the age of radio . . .
Monster on the loose: the civil justice system.
Americans are facing a monster...just as terrifying as, and certainly
more real than, anything coming out of Jurassic Park. It is abuse of the
civil justice system. According to a survey, 69 percent . . .
The privatization issue of freeing internal markets.
Must Things Get Worse Before They Get Better?
The process of privatization is complex. Although privatization
originally mean a shift from public to private provision of goods and
services, the term . . .
The rush to privatize in the Asia-Pacific region.
Privatization redefines the role of the public sector. Since the
early 1980s, privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has become
the cornerstone of the economic policies of the Asian . . .
Building support for privatization: Russia and the United
Kingdom.
Privatization can create wrenching cultural change that results from
the transfer of public business to private ownership. To manage this
change, governments must gain the support of as many groups . . .
Privatization in Russia.
When the Russian government first introduced the so-called
"privatization cheque" as a key element in its privatization
program, the concept seemed to make some sense. But now that the . . .
Pitfalls in privatization in Kazakhstan.
One of the major shifts in economic across the globe in the last
decade involve the transition from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to
private enterprise. Perhaps no region has felt the effects of . . .
Privatization: the long road to success in Argentina.
During the 1970s, Argentina plunged into a public finance crisis.
After 30 year of growth in public expenditures, the fiscal deficit had
grown to more than ten percent of the Gross Domestic Product . . .
Learning lessons from privatization in Latin America.
"I'm looking for the Brazilian Lee lacocca to save CSN . .
.," Brazil's then-infrastructure minister, Ozires Silva, told
Roberto Procopio de Lima Netto back in March 1990. "Would you
accept the . . .
Policy and management requirements for privatization.
Lessons from International Experience
Governments throughout the world, especially in developing nations
and in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe, have been
trying to implement . . .
Overcoming public employee opposition to privatization.
Privatization is a political process. Despite evidence of sizable
cost savings, public officials often face strong opposition to
privatization and competitive contracting. A 1992 Reason . . .
The Philadelphia competitive contracting story.
President John F. Kennedy was once asked how he became a war hero as
captain of the PT 109. Kennedy's answer was simple: "They sunk
my boat."
When I took office in January 1992, Philadelphia was . . .
Chicago city government: smaller in size but greater in
performance.
People all over the world have understood the basic principles of
free-market economics for thousands of years, yet only in the last few
years have governments recognized the role of competition in . . .
Privatization: American style.
"Privatization" has become a public sector buzzword, a
motherhood-and-apple-pie principle of American public management. It is
impossible to pick up any major newspaper without seeing an . . .
The politics of privatization.
In organizations, and particularly in governments, a crisis is the
tocsin for a call to action. It was the crises that faced Mayors Daley
and Rendell (Chicago and Philadelphia)--who tell their . . .
Arithmetic - the western way.
Publishing material that is misleading or incorrect should be the
number one sin editors try to avoid. The prestigious Los Angeles Times
recently failed miserably in that respect.
William Pfaff wrote . . .
The Seven Cultures of Capitalism.
Authors Charles Hampden Turner and Alfons Trompenaars of The Seven
Cultures of Capitalism (Currency/Doubleday, 1993) have examined and
compared the most prominent capitalist nations (Canada, France, . . .
New health benefits rule has big impact on businesses and
workers. (Financial Accounting Statement Number 106)
A new rule that requires U.S. firms to account for the future cost of
retirees' health benefits has triggered a bewildering array of
responses including moves to reduce benefits, lawsuits, . . .
Toasts: rhetoric and ritual in business negotiation in Confucian
cultures. (includes related article)
One of the baffling episodes for most North American business people
who travel to China, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong is the ritual of the
welcome banquet and its toasts. Bemused travelers return . . .
New women in Japan: taking care of themselves.
On a July afternoon, just after arriving in Tokyo, I was following
Yoko's spiked high heels and tailored dark suit through the lush,
sticky-warm landscape of a hotel garden. Although we were in the . . .
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