Executive Strategy or Regional Financial Markets

Executive Strategy: Strategic Management and Information Technology, Vol. 1

Author: Frederick Betz

A modern theory of executive strategy for the information age

The information revolution has radically transformed virtually every aspect of business today. Yet, no book has fully addressed its impact on strategic management-until now. In Executive Strategy: Strategic Management and Information Technology, Frederick Betz builds on his pioneering work concerning the management of technical innovation to explore the powerful relationship between traditional strategic management and today's computer and communications technologies.

By adapting established strategy-related concepts and processes to the strategic management challenges faced by companies in the information age, this book offers readers the background they need to guide processes ranging from the creation of strategic business models and the development of comprehensive planning scenarios to the strategic management of business diversification and the formulation of information strategy.

Concepts are developed with a survey of the older business literature on strategy and the newer information strategy literature, and illustrated by a wealth of new technology and e-commerce-related case studies. The case studies, presented in the book and on its accompanying Web site (execstrat.com), are drawn from leading companies such as Apple Computer, Pixar, AOL Time Warner, and Amazon.com.

From the Internet and e-commerce to the role of computer-aided tools such as inventory control and project management software, the world of information technology is filled with innovations that have crucial ramifications for the strategic management of every business. This bookequips present and future engineering and business professionals with the road map they need to help steer the modern organization skillfully through the twists and turns of this new and exciting business landscape.

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This work offers background needed to understand strategic management challenges faced by companies in the information age, covering concepts and processes for the creation of strategic business models, the development of planning scenarios, strategic management of business diversification, and the formulation of information strategy. Concepts are developed with a survey of older business literature on strategy and the newer information strategy literature, and illustrated with case studies from companies such as Apple Computer, Pixar, and Amazon.com. Betz is program director in the Technology Management Program of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland University College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Regional Financial Markets: Issues and Policies

Author: Dilip K K Ghosh

Top financial scholars from around the world analyze regional economic issues in light of the recent Asian financial crisis. As a result of that crisis, and the ensuing reforms, corporations, governments, individual investors have pursued a variety of strategies to cope with the fast-changing economic situation. Each chapter treats a separate issue and offers policy recommendations. Among the theoretical and empirical analyses collected here are those relating to nonperforming loans, economic restructuring, bank forecasting, prediction of corporate failure, Islamic banking issues, new measurement of systematic risk of delisted stocks resuming trading operations, and the lead-lag relationship and pricing efficiency of regional stock exchanges.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Introduction
1	From turbulence to tranquility : reform and restructuring in Malaysia	1
2	Portfolio investments in Australia : 1988-1997	13
3	The level of managerial ownership, leverage, and dividend policies : Hong Kong evidence	33
4	Examining the performance of the Malaysian life insurance sector : efficiency and productivity growth	51
5	Assessing corporate financial distress in Malaysia	73
6	Cross-sectional predictability of stock returns at the Colombo stock exchange	95
7	Linking commercial bank lending into determinants of price level in Malaysia	117
8	Optimal financial structure : a Modigliani and Miller dynamic model for Mexican corporations	137
9	Thai capital market integration using relevant assets	157
10	Intraday systematic patterns, lead-lag relationships, and pricing efficiency : evidence from the Kuala Lumpur composite index futures	181
11	The 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, corporate restructuring, and earnings per share of listed companies	223
12	The national economic recovery plan : perception of financial market	247
13	Cost efficiency and economies of scale in Asian banking	265
14	Factors influencing capital structure in three Asian countries : Japan, Malaysia, and Pakistan	283