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The Japanese Cooperative Sector, Mark A. Klinedinst, Hitomi Sato Jun 1994

The Japanese Cooperative Sector, Mark A. Klinedinst, Hitomi Sato

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No abstract provided.


Management Buyouts And Small Business Performance: An Exploratory Examination And Research Agenda, Garry D. Bruton, J. Kay Keels, Elton Scifres Jan 1994

Management Buyouts And Small Business Performance: An Exploratory Examination And Research Agenda, Garry D. Bruton, J. Kay Keels, Elton Scifres

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Management buyout activity is increasingly shifting from large firms to small firms. However, to date, little is known about how such activities impact the performance of small firms. This research has identified a sample of small firms that have undergone a management buyout and found that, relative to other firms in their respective industries, these small buyout firms experienced performance gains similar to those experienced in buyouts of larger firms. Suggestions for extending this area of research are made.


Economic Performance - It's Only Part Of The Picture, Annette M. Nellen, K. Marucheck Jan 1994

Economic Performance - It's Only Part Of The Picture, Annette M. Nellen, K. Marucheck

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No abstract provided.


Cost Overrun Optimism: Fact Or Fiction, David D. Christensen Jan 1994

Cost Overrun Optimism: Fact Or Fiction, David D. Christensen

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Program managers are advocates by necessity, When taken to the extreme, program advocacy can result in the suppression of adverse information about the status of a program gram. Such was the case in the Navy's A-12 Program. In A-12 Administrative inquiry, Beach (1990) speculates that such abiding cultural problems were not unique to the Navy. To test that assertion, this paper examines cost overrun data on 64 completed acquisition contracts extracted from the Defense Acquisition Executive Summary database. Cost overruns at various contract completion points are compared with projected final cost overruns estimated by contractor and government personnel. 17 comparison …


An Experiment With Electronic Mail And Constitutional Theory, I. Trotter Hardy Jan 1994

An Experiment With Electronic Mail And Constitutional Theory, I. Trotter Hardy

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No abstract provided.