A comparison of the quality of European, Japanese and U.S. mission statements: A content analysis

European Management Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 393-401

  Bartkus, Barbara ^a   Glassman, Myron ^a   McAfee, R Bruce ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mission statements; Stakeholder; Web sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644266900     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2004.06.013     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. J.A. Bailey Measuring your mission Management Accounting 44 3 1996 44-47
2. C.K. Bart Sex, lies, and mission statements Business Horizons 40 6 1997 9-18
3. C.K. Bart Mission matters CA Magazine 131 2 1998 31-34
4. C.K. Bart N. Bontis S. Taggar A model of the impact of mission statements on firm performance Management Decision 39 1 2001 19-35
5. B.R. Bartkus M. Glassman R.B. McAfee Mission statements: Are they smoke and mirrors? Business Horizons 43 6 2000 23-28
6. C. Bartlett S. Ghoshal Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution 1989 Harvard Business School Press Boston
7. M. Botterhill Changing corporate culture Management Services 34 6 1990 14-18
8. R. Culpan O. Kucukemiroglu A comparison of U.S. and Japanese management styles and unit Management International Review 33 1 1993 27
9. S.W. Davies K.W. Glaister Business school mission statements - the bland leading the bland? Long Range Planning 30 4 1997 594-604
10. D.J. Dalrymple L.J. Parsons Marketing Management: Text and Cases 6th edn 1995 John Wiley & Sons New York
11. T. Donaldson L.E. Preston The stakeholder theory of the corporation: concepts, evidence and implications Academy of Management Review 20 1 1995 65-91
12. S.K. Esrock G.B. Leichty Organization of corporate web pages: publics and functions Public Relations Review 26 3 2000 327
13. Guyon J. and Hjelt P. (2001) Companies around the world are going the America Way; and despite the critics, the trend isn't stopping Fortune Magazine November 26, 114
14. R. Ireland M. Hitt Mission statements: importance, challenge and recommendations for development Business Horizons 35 3 1992 34-43
15. P. Jones L. Kahaner Say it and Live it: The 50 Corporate Mission Statements that Hit the Mark 1995 Currency-Doubleday New York
16. K. Ju-Pak Content dimensions of web advertising: a cross-national comparison International Journal of Advertising 18 2 1999 207-231
17. J.P. Katz D.L. Swanson L.K. Nelson Culture-based expectations of corporate citizenship: a propositional framework and comparison of four cultures International Journal of Organizational Analysis 9 2 2002 171-199
18. Knight R. and Pretty D. (2001) Mastering investment: seeking value from changes in Europe. Financial Times June 25
19. L. Leuthesser C. Kohli Corporate identity: the role of mission statements Business Horizons 40 3 1997 59-67
20. I.M. Levin Visited revisited Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 36 1 2000 91-107
21. J.W. Meyer B. Rowan Institutionalized organizations: formal structure as myth and ceremony American Journal of Sociology 83 2 1977 340-363
22. A. Miller Strategic Management 3rd edn 1998 Irwin-McGraw Hill Boston
23. J.A. Pearce F.R. David Corporate mission statements: the bottom line Academy of Management Executive 1 2 1987 109-116
24. J. Pearce II K. Roth Multi nationalization of the mission statement SAM Advanced Management Journal Summer 1988 39-44
25. S. Rafaeli F. Sudweeks Networked activity Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 2 4 1997
26. N. Singh H. Zhao X. Hu Cultural adaptation on the web: a study of American domestic and Chinese websites Journal of Global Information Management 11 3 2003 63-80
27. J. Sullivan Japanese management philosophies: from the vacuous to the brilliant California Management Review 34 2 1992 66
28. M. Vander Weyer Mission Improvable: for cliched syntactically-challenged copy mission statements are hard to beat Management Today September 1994 66-68
29. G.S. Yip J.K. Johansson J. Roos Effects of nationality on global strategy Management International Review 37 4 1997 365-386