Technology Issues Facing Corporate Management in the 1990s

Paul J. Dixon; Darwin A. John

The article discusses major issues raised by the authors and several senior information technology executives in large corporations that affect the way technology is introduced and used in major corporations.

These issues and drivers (primary causes of change) are likely to have the most significant impact on the management of information technology within corporations now and in the future. If these drivers are acknowledged as real (or validated by research as real), then the understanding of their impact on both corporate organization and technology managemen would very much benefit by research.

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The Effects of Ownership Structure on Corporate Restructuring

Jennifer E. Bethel; Julia Liebeskind
Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 14, Special Issue: Corporate Restructuring. (Summer, 1993),
pp. 15-31.

This paper investigates the relationship between ownership structure and corporate restructuring in a sample of 93 surviving public Fortune 500 firms during the period 1981-87. The results show that blockholder ownership is associated significantly with corporate restructuring, suggesting that many managers restructured their corporations during the 19802 only when pressured to do so by large shareholders.

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Determinants of Corporate Capital Structure in East Asia: Are there differences fromo the Industrialized Countries

Mamoru Nagano
Waseda University Institute of Finance
Juli 2003

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This paper investigated micro-economic variables that determined corporate capital structure in the East Asian countries of Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. In general, there is a high level of dependency by firms on short-term external financing. Based on empirical analyses, the study found a significant negative relationship between firm profitability and corporate debt-to-equity (DE) ratio in all the sample countries. Firm size also has a direct relationship with DE ratio in many countries. On the other hand, the relationship between corporate debt-to-equity (DE) ratio and firm’s tangibility -- generally significant in the industrialized countries -- is entirely insignificant even in the post-crisis period.

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A Comment on Gilbert's 'The Twilight of Corporate Strategy'

by. Alan Bauerschmidt
Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 14, No. 5. (Jul.,1993), pp. 397-399.

A comment on Gilbert's 'The Twilight of Corporate Strategy'

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