Showing papers in "Business Horizons in 1991"

TL;DR: For the better part of 30 years now, corporate executives have struggled with the issue of the firm's responsibility to its society, and it became quickly apparent to everyone, however, that this pursuit of financial gain had to take place within the laws of the land.

TL;DR: A wizard from a faraway place visited the United States of America and observed that while the products continued to be bought in large quantities, there seemed to be few efforts made by the companies to ask the people of this land what they really wanted.

TL;DR: In this paper, a discussion of the role of stakeholders in the management of a corporation is presented. But the focus is not on maximizing profits for stockholders, but on protecting the rights and interests of the other stakeholders.

TL;DR: A number of positions have been taken on the issue of "corporate social responsibility" (hereafter referred to as CSR) in an effort to defuse some of this complexity as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of who is harmed and who benefits from corporate actions, and what can be done to reduce the harms and increase the benefits of corporate behaviors.

TL;DR: Parkinson's dilemma reflects the plight of a significant number of executives today as mentioned in this paper, who fear the "out-of-sight, outof-mind" phenomenon most of all (Adler 1987).

TL;DR: In this paper, a managerially based understanding of corporate social responsibility and the "common good" is proposed, and a process by which corporations and other organizations in society can raise up social responsibility for explicit consideration in decision making.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the sales and market share effects of six major negative publicity incidents in the automotive industry that have occurred during the past 25 years and found that negative product information has a significant impact on sales.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a brief look at how the study of consumer behavior has evolved since its inception and show that individual-oriented consumer behavior of the past will change to a more collective style in the 1990s and that consumers will undoubtedly have a distinctive theoretical decision model that will grow out of the future decision making environment.

TL;DR: This article found that only two privately held companies had articulated and communicated statements of their core values, and only one of them had published them publicly, while most of the others did not.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify global competitive challenges and describe means by which executives may respond to them and describe ways by which companies may respond today,s turbulent marketplace will require companies to serve their markets or lose out to those who will.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reveal the true nature of corporate ethics codes and reveal that most of the rules that have been codified as "corporate ethical standards" and the like prescribe "micro" behavior of individuals within organizations.

TL;DR: Today's older population is healthier, wealthier, more active, better educated, and generally more satisfied with life than at any other time in history.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a few comments about the problem of reaching a widely shared conclusion on the responsibilities of management at the macro level of management, and suggest that instead of continuing those discussions it would be well to move back a step, or down a notch, and begin to consider the micro, "for what" responsibilities of managers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the most widely used selection tool, the traditional hiring interview, has only a 15-20 percent chance of accurately predicting job performance, and that the key is being able to define and measure effective behavior that produces bottom-line results, and to distinguish the average from the highly competent performer in a systematic and defensible staffing process.

TL;DR: The traditional wisdom on new products is that a firm should be either market-driven or technology-driven, that is, give the market either what it wants or what technologists believe it will want as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the many ways firms do not take others into consideration to not do them good, while attempting to do well themselves, and what are the insignias of the socially responsible firm? What do corporate leaders say and do about such matters?

TL;DR: In this paper, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries concluded that the agency systematically violated state law and ordered Nordstrom to pay back wages estimated at $30 to $40 million.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the interests of corporate constituencies that give rise to questions on the order of "To Whom is the Corporation Responsible?" are often separate, but they are not separable.