INDEX
abandonment (products, programs, policies and routines)
accounting systems
activity-based
see also cost accounting
Afghanistan, Soviet aid to
Africa, lack of civil society
African Americans
Age of Discontinuity, The (Drucker)
agribusiness
agriculture, protection polices for
agrobiology market
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Alcoholics Anonymous
Aldi
Alliance for Progress aid plan
Alliances
American Heart Association
American Mental Health Association
Archdiocese’s parochial schools
Asia’s Pacific Rim
AT&T
automobile industry
cost accounting in
international manufacture
Japan
United States
auto market
international
protectionist policies
balance sheets
going concerns
banks
alliances/partnerships
changes in
cost accounting in
and noncustomers
Bell Telephone System
benchmarking
Benetton
blue-collar workers
African American
as an organizable group
current social problems for
job losses to developing countries
jobs moving to Japan
retreat after 1990,
rise and fall
unions for
as a well-paid group
Body Shop
Boxer Rebellion
budgets, as a going concern
bureaucracies, arrogant
business audits
business cyles
business models
business sins
businesses
causes of failure
definition of
see also companies, family businesses, organizations, theory of the business
cable TV
Canada, deficit problem
Canon
capital
appropriations processes
capital funds
investment analysis
as a key resource
Carter, Jimmy
cash cows, misuse of
cash flow
catalog sales
change
exploitation of
and innovation
child-care provision
Chile
democracy in
free market in
China
coastal China
education
financial services
health care
joint ventures in
legal/administrative framework
neo-classicism in
services, need for
state enterprises
transportation needs
U.S. trade policy
Chinese, overseas
envy toward
information sharing by
management by family ties
Chrysler
churches
civil service
civil society, export of
civilization
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
closed shop
Coca-Cola Company
Columbia/HCA Healthcare
commercial paper
communication
companies
causes of failure
legal and economic
competence information
competencies
for individuals
organizations, see core competencies
competition
computer data process, and accounting
consensus management
consortia
consultants
consumption manipulation
continuous improvement policies
control, with activity-based accounting
core competencies
analysis of
GM
Marks & Spencer
corporations, future of
cost accounting/control
in Japanese keiretsu
in manufacturing
and non-producing costs
in services
traditional
see also accounting systems
cost effectiveness
cost-led/driven pricing
costing, see economic chain costing
crusades, moral
customer driven policies
Czech Republic, neo-classicism in
data
databases
inside and outside
use of
Dean Witter, and Sears
decentralization
deficit spending
democracy
demographics
Department of Agriculture, trimming
department stores
Deutsche Bank
theory of business change
development aid
Die Weber (Hauptmann)
direct investment
Disability Aid
Disraeli, Benjamin
diversification
domestic economic policies
and world economics
domestic servants
move to industry
reduction in use of
downsizing in the government
drugs
DuPont
Durant, William
economic chain costing
economic interests, compromising
economic performance, businesses
Economic Value-added Analysis (EVA)
economics of small scale
education
the knowledge worker
need to define quality and productivity
spending trends
Eisner, Robert
electronic data systems
employee societies
employees
hours and pensions around 1900,
knowledge and non-knowledge
knowledge workers as
employment flexibility
employment security
empowerment
energy market
entitlements, need to cut
Espy, Mike
European Economic Community
retailing in
Export–Import Bank
family
impact of knowledge work on
as a social unit
family businesses
family members in
management succession
outsiders in
see also Chinese, overseas
Family Service America
farmers
declining numbers of
move to industry
as a social group
working/living conditions
Federalist Papers, The (Locke)
feeding business problems, sin of
feminism
feudalism
Fiat
financial panics
flexible manufacturing
food imports to developed countries
Ford Motor Company
cost accounting in
foreign aid
failure of
to support, not degrade
foreign investment
foreign policies, shift to knowledge aspects
foreign trade and investment
foundation information
France
domestic economy
1981 flight of capital
free market
civil society dependence
power and limitations
Friedman, Milton
functional society, for neoclassicism
Future of Industrial Man, The (Drucker)
futures budgets
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Tonnies)
gender roles in knowledge work
General Electric
rethinking
General Motors
business acquisition policy
capital-appropriations process
core competencies
cost accounting in
flexible manufacturing
market share and profit
organization
Saturn Division teams
Geological Survey office
Germany
financing unification
income inequality
the Keynesian propositions
neo-classicism in
teams
unemployment benefits
wage costs compared
welfare in
GI Bill of Rights
Goldsmith, Stephen
Gore, Al
government
abandoning programs
and the civil service
downsizing
and economy control
effective
federal budget
federal deficit
incompetent with social problems
insolvency from spending
in knowledge-based society
lobby system unsatisfactory
money for nonprofits
proper functions of
restructuring
rethinking
returning to solvency
and the social services
in society of organizations
taxing nonprofits
“Green Revolution” Indian aid
Hanna, Mark
Health care
need to cut
spending trends
Honda
Hong Kong, democracy in
Hoover, Herbert
hospitals
change, need for
outsourcing
power of
rethinking
housing, spending trends
Hughes Electronics, under GM
human resources
human rights
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
hypermarkets
IBM
flexible mass production
Network Station Management
PCs and mainframes
theory of business changing
Ikea furniture
income inequality
income spending trends
industrial workers, working/living conditions
inflation
information
on competence
executives’ needs
foundation
information flows
inside and outside
knowing what to know
in manufacturing, delivery and retailing
noncustomer
resource allocation
responsibility
for strategy formulation
total factor productivity
trends
infrastructure markets and privatization
innovation
and change
as a core competence
in organizations
purposeful
social
institutional trade
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (North)
Intel
intellectual arrogance
interest rates
international aid
international economy
International Monetary Fund
International Rescue Committee
international terrorism
international trade
and the world economy
investment, see direct investment, portfolio investment
Italy
financial panic
pension system problem
Ito-Yoka-do Company
Japan
bubble economy
auto industry
competitive methods of attack
computer strategy
consumption manipulation
costs within keiretsu
democracy in
domestic consumption, stimulation
domestic/world economy
employer social attitude
endaka (high yen)
entire production control economics
European trade
food imports
foreign business obstacles
fuel and energy imports
government long-term policy
incomes inequality
inro
investment abroad
jobs from investment abroad
kaizen
and the Keynesian propositions
knowledge application in
lifetime employment
long-term policy commitment
MITI
netsuke
real estate debacle
savings and interest rates
teams in organizations
telecommunications strategy
in times of recession
U.S. trade with
U.S.–Japanese strategic alliance
wage costs compared
Jefferson, Thomas
job creation, with foreign investment
Johnson, Lyndon B.
joint ventures
Judson Center
“just-in-time” delivery
Kaiser Permanente
kaizen
Kennedy tax cuts
Keynesian concepts
“Deficit State”
economics
welfare state
knowledge
cost and price
importance of applying
knowledges
and life-long learning
productivity definition needed
quality definition needed
as a resource
and the world economy
knowledge management
knowledge society–201, 206, 208
and the social sector
social tasks in
knowledge workers
as bosses
career movement of
education/experience required
as employees
gender roles
and generalists
key position of
loyalty
managing
rise of
specialist nature of
specialized
supervision of
in teams
Kroc, Ray
Le Dèfi Américain (Servain-Schreiber)
leading/lagging indicators
legal systems, need for
leisure spending trends
Lexis database
life insurance market
lifetime employment
liquidation values
liquidity projections
London Interbank market
loyalty, of knowledge workers
Machiavelli
McKinley, William
Macy stores
mafia, as a family business
Malinowski, Bronislaw
management
definition and purpose
family businesses
of individuals
levels reduction
managers
changing role of
finding and training
functions of
of knowledge employees
in a knowledge society
Managing for Results (Drucker)
mandated trade
Mandarin meritocracy
manufacturing
output trends
Mao, Chairman
Marcuse, Herbert
market-driven policies
market homogeneity
market researchers, as knowledge workers
market share
marketing relationships
markets, newly developing
Marks & Spencer
core competencies
and cost stream management
Marshall, Alfred
Marshall Plan
Marx, Karl
measuring, and counting
Medicare, pruning required
Medieval feudalism
merchandise trade
Merck pharmaceuticals
Mexico
financial panic in
neo-classicism in
Military aid, U.S. and Soviet
MITI
Mitsubishi
money flow market
multinational corporations
nanny state
neo-classic economics
network society
neurosurgeons
New Deal
New Realities, The (Drucker)
Nightingale, Florence
Nissan
noncustomers
nonprofit sector
bureaucracy hostility to
money raising
solving social problems
North American economic block
nuclear subs, safety in
nurses, and gender roles
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
O’Connell, Brian
one-stop service
opportunity and risk, in capital appropriations
opportunity starving
optimum market standing
organizations
civil service
and the community
continuity and stability
definition
and diversification
employees and non-employees
in general social sector
and governments
innovation, and management of change
joining and leaving
knowledge exploitation
knowledge workers in
“literati” and “managers” in
management of
managers in
military
power of
restructuring
single-mindedness in
social responsibility
outsourcing
Pacific Rim
panics, financial
parachurches
part-timers
participative management
partnerships
patching policies
PCs, and mainframes
Penney, J.C.
pensions
are for
need to cut
people, as a scarce resource
Perot, Ross
personal performance
Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit Management
Peterson, Peter G.
pharmaceutical industry
pluralism
Point Four aid plan
Politics, Who Gets What, When, How (Laswell)
politics, and moral issues
portfolio investment
post-capitalist society
poverty leading to degradation
Practice of Management, The (Drucker)
premium pricing
presidents
accountability of
friends of
rules for
wives
price-driven costing
Princess Casamassima, The (James)
priority tasks, social and political
private sector
privatization
problem feeding (business)
Procter & Gamble
productivity information
profit
and market share
total and margin
property rights, guaranteeing
protectionist policies
public sector
railway infrastructures
rapid growth dangers
Reagan, Ronald
research labs, cost management
resource-allocation information
responsibility, by organizations
restructuring government
retail discounters, cost accounting
retailing
information revolution in
store appeal importance
rethinking government
Rivlin, Alice
Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek)
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Rosenberg, Anna
Rothschilds
safe, and unsafe, behavior
safety net, international aid
Salvation Army
Samaritans
saving, and oversaving
schools
change in
as social reform tools
Schumpeter, Joseph
Sears, Roebuck and Company
and cost stream management
failures and successes
secretaries, and gender roles
self-employed workers
services, and activity-based accounting
services trade
Servistar
7-eleven outlets in Japan
Sharp
shopping centers
Siemens, George
Singapore
democracy in
knowledge application in
skills, rate of change
social problems, government incompetence
social responsibility, of organizations
social sector
government/ organization relations
organizations
volunteers in
see also nonprofit sector
social security, need to cut
social transformations
society of organizations
and the common good
and government
Sony
Sorel, George
South Korea
domestic economy
knowledge application
Soviet Empire, neo-classicism in
specialists
speculative profits
starving business opportunities
strategy
information required for
outside help needs
strength analysis
structural trade
structural trends
subsidiaries, managing
supermarkets
surgeon, as a knowledge worker
survival insurance
Sweden
deficit problem
domestic/world economy
investment abroad and jobs
Taiping Rebellion
Taiwan, democracy in
teams
in America
baseball-style
in Japan
jazz combo
for knowledge workers
soccer-style
tennis-style
technologists
telephone services market
temporary workers
Thatcher, Margaret
theory of business
obsolescence of
reality fitting
testing requirement
understanding in organizations
time-and-motion study
totalitarianism
Toyota
Toys ‘R’ Us
transactional accounting
transactional money flows
treasury function
Truman, Harry S.
TV shopping
tyranny and responsibility, organizations
uncertainty, planning for
unemployment benefit
need to cut
unexpected success/failure
unions
for blue-collar workers
in General Motors
power of
retreat after 1900,
United Kingdom
domestic/world economy
inequality of incomes
National Health Service
unemployment benefits
welfare in
United States
auto industry
domestic/world economy
economic policies
economy’s power shift
financial panics
incomes inequality
Japan, trade with
military
overseas competition
protectionist policies
services export
trade deficit
unemployment benefits
welfare problems
universities
change in
power of
unsafe behavior
Veteran’s Administration
volunteers in social sector
U.S and non-U.S.
see also nonprofit sector
wage funds
Wal-Mart
War on Drugs
wealth creation, information for
welfare
bureaucracies
controlled experiments in
encouraging nondependence
failure of
international
reducing spending on
results and needs aspects
welfare underclass (U.K.)
West Germany, domestic/world economy
West Point, core competencies
Wilson, Charles E.
workers, see blue-collar workers, employees, knowledge workers
World Bank
world economy
and domestic policies
need of economic theory for
world information flow
world money flow market
Xerox