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New Organization Forms for Manufacturing Competitiveness

Jay Galbraith of the Center for Effective Organizations and FIAT conducted their second “traveling seminar” in order to study new forms of organization being used by manufacturing companies.

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The Effectiveness of Self-Managing Teams: A Quasi-Experiment

This study by S. Cohen and G. Ledford, Jr. uses a quasi-experimental design to assess the effectiveness of self-managing teams in a telecommunications company.

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Implementing Effective IHRM Practices: A Challenge for MNCs in the 1990s

Janice M. Beyer and John Milliman argue that multinational corporations (MNCs) of the future will be faced with a – whole new array of challenges, thus necessitating international HRM practices (IHRM) that are able to adapt to changing pressures.

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The New Plant Revolution Revisited

This article by Edward Lawler III reviews and updates an earlier article “The New Plant Revolution.” Concludes that the new plant model has worked well, but has some weaknesses. These include lack of financial incentive, team effectiveness and full business integration.

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Contextual Determinants of Human Resource Management Effectiveness in International Cooperative Alliances: Evidence from the People’s Republic of China

Mary Ann Von Glinow and Mary B. Teagarden argue that international cooperative alliances, especially joint ventures in developing countries with command economies such as the People’s Republic of China, encounter myriad factors pertaining to HRM that constrain or influence their effectiveness.

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A Profile of Meetings In Corporate America: Results of the 3M Meeting Effectiveness Study

This report by Peter M. Monge, Charles McSween, and JoAnne Wyer presents the findings of the 3M Meeting Effectiveness Study. 903 people from 36 small, medium, and large companies in the public and private sectors completed a detailed survey describing the last meeting they attended.

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Organizational Culture: A Key to Financial Performance?

Caren Siehl and Joanne Martin discuss how the quantity of organizational culture research has increased dramatically during the last decade (e.g., Barley, Meyer, & Gash, 1988), in part because so much of it has held out a tantalizing promise: that culture may be a key to enhancing financial performance.

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Organizational Response to Government Regulation: A New Theoretical Perspective

Philip H. Birnbaum and Edward J. Ottensmeyer argue that students of organizational strategy lack a fully specified framework for studying and better understanding the strategies shaped by organizations in response to government regulation.

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Competitive Advantage and the Basis of Competition

Philip H. Birnbaum and Andrew R. Weiss conducted an exploratory analysis of the basis of competition in 13 specific industrial sectors.

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Service in Manufacturing: Some Strategic and Theoretical Implications

In this paper by David E. Bowen, Caren J. Siehl, and Benjamin Schneider, approaches to enhancing the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing operations are re-conceptualized as ways of restructuring production operations to include attributes of service operations.

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The Quality Circle and its Variations

The academic and practitioner literature on quality circles (QC’s) is reviewed in this article by G. Ledford, Jr., Edward E. Lawler III, and Susan A. Mohrman.

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Compiled Opinion Editorials

A compiled set of opinion editorials by Edward E. Lawler III and Warren Bennis is presented.

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