Intranets or corporate information portals can have tremendous impacts on modern organizations. Today’s intranets are not just sources for publishing and posting internal documents and corporate policies, but instead are sources for knowledge management, work group collaboration, and on-line access to a multitude of other applications that support end-user tasks. Despite these impacts, there is...

Business groups played an important role in the economic development of East Asian countries. Yet business groups in East Asia face an uncertain future. Following the Asian Crisis, foreign creditors and investors have demanded that business groups have more transparent operations and stronger corporate governance. At the same time, as governments in East Asia have loosened trade barriers, busin...

T H I S PAPER PROVIDES A BRIEF summary of what w e a t the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre believe we have learned about corporate strategy over the last ten years. It lays out the basis for our ideas about corporate parenting and the implications of parenting theory for management decisions. It is structured around nine propositions, each of which attempts to convey both what we have lear...

Toyota Motor Corporation and Nissan Motor Corporation were established in 1937 and 1933 respectively. They have been facing the same global challenges as well as the same politicoeconomic changes domestically and globally. They have similar business resources such as work force, capital, products, technology, and information. How, then, can there be such major differences in their overall busin...

The use of information technology to enhance classroom learning and deliver corporate training is the latest trend and focus of much research in the computer-mediated communication (CMC) and development industry. Technological advances continue to alter the various ways in which academic and organizational training is facilitated and conducted. This paper presents a review of the available lite...

For corporate memory and enterprise ontology systems to be maximally useful, they must be freed from certain barriers placed around them by traditional knowledge management paradigms. This means, above all, that they must mirror more faithfully those portions of reality which are salient to the workings of the enterprise, including the changes that occur with the passage of time. The purpose of...

For a commercial company it is very important to be able to transfer relevant information to corporate knowledge. Therefore, a new concept must support and manage the information-to-knowledge and the knowledge-to-information cycle by using trustworthy knowledge repositories and personalised retrieval systems. The xFIND system represents an approach to a future-oriented knowledge system, which s...

We assess the impact of institutions on Chinese firms’ corporate investment in an investment Euler equation framework. We allow the variables measuring institutions to affect the rate at which firm managers discount future investment payoffs. Applying generalized method of moments estimators to large samples of Chinese firms, we estimate the stochastic discount rates derived from actual investm...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become the social focus with the pressure of social problems. As we all know, accounting report and analysis have become an important instrument of strengthening CSR. The current situation and problems of Corporate Social Responsibility Accounting (CSRA) disclosure in China were analyzed firstly. Then, in the light of foreign feasible practice, the cont...

We examine voluntary disclosures of information about corporate strategies. We develop a model in which managers choose whether to reveal their strategic plans only to some partners of the firm or also to the outside world. We show that managers face a tradeoff when deciding whether to disclose their private information to outsiders. On the one hand, by disclosing their intentions, managers bec...