Emphasizes the importance of supporting new businesses in under‐developed nations, describing the Zambian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (Zacci) attempts to provide a consulting service for small businesses at no cost. Reports the implementation of the Zacci Management Assistance...

Although corporate structures in Japan and, to a lesser extent Korea, have been examined in the literature, in most cases the framework is not comparative. In other cases the framework is comparative, with keiretsu and chaebol compared to US conglomerates. A third foreign conglomerate, the...

Restructuring activities in Eastern Europe have been widely discussed. Examines firm‐level impediments to the conversion of state‐owned enterprises to market‐oriented firms operated for a profit. Based on the experience gained in several consultancies in Hungarian plants, the greatest...