"As a new president takes over in Washington, three intertwined threats imperil the world. One is internal. The others are external. The internal threat is a potent and increasingly anti-patriotic, anti-competitive, anti-meritocratic, and sky-is-the-limit federal deficit spending political...

This article assesses the experience in the United States with the 1971-1973 wage and price controls. From the mixed evidence two main conclusions are reached. First, in competitive product and labor markets with a reasonably elastic supply of the product the government's setting prices below...

Industrie- und Handelsmanager in Deutschland sehen sich mit einem zunehmend größeren Problem konfrontiert: mit der dramatisch gesunkenen Marken- und Einskaufsstättenloyalität ihrer Kunden. Der Handel versuchte bislang, sich durch den Preis gegenüber dem Kunden zu profilieren; die Industrie...

Driven by rapidly changing business environments and increasingly demanding consumers, many organizations are searching for new ways to achieve and retain a competitive advantage via customer intimacy and CRM. In this context, new strategic frameworks and cooperation with everybody along the...

Responses to a telephone survey of managers in 276 companies show that in those companies the senior employee is more likely to be promoted over the junior employee in cases in which the vacancy is posted, the relevant employment unit is small, the position is not managerial, and the manager...