Management Research News: Volume 20 Issue 8

Comparing Corporate Environmental Activities in Australia and the UK

Michael Jay Polonsky, Abby Ghobadian, Howard Viney

The environment continues to command serious attention as a key consideration in the corporate strategy process, both within the specialised environmental management literature…

CEO Pay in the American Insurance Industry

Kevin J. Sigler

Academics believe that shareholder and management interests can be productively aligned by directly linking CEO compensation to firm performance (Abowd [1990], Agrawal & Mankelder…

Practices of Excellent Companies in the American Computer Industry

Mike Pelly, Brian H. Kleiner

Although there are many companies in the computer industry which represent excellent examples of success stories, Apple Computers, Hewlett Packard, and Microsoft, were chosen…

Managing the Finance Lease Decision

John Pointon

This article reports on a programme of research into finance leasing, which has, in part, been financially supported by the Research Board of the Institute of Chartered…