Sarah Sanderson King is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University. She is the author of Human Communication as a Field of Study: Selected Contemporary Views, and co-author with Donald Cushman of Political Communication: Engineering Visions of Order in the Socialist World, both published by SUNY Press. Donald P. Cushman is Professor of Communication at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Communication in Interpersonal Relationships (with L. Cahn), published by SUNY Press, and Message-Attitude-Behavior Relationships (with R. McPhee). He has served as a consultant for governments and private corporations in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and Yugoslavia.

"This book brings together a theoretically interesting and pragmatically useful collection of writings in the area of high-speed management and global business. The role of high-speed management in the survival of corporations provides a refreshing and needed perspective on changing values and conditions in the global marketplace. The authors present a series of fascinating perspectives on the topic of high-speed management and organizational communication, with interesting and pertinent case studies of both U. S. and foreign firms." — Richard J. Dieker, Western Michigan University

• 1. High-Speed Management and Organizational Communication: A Road MapSarah Sanderson King2. High-Speed Management: A Revolution in Organizational Communication in the 1990sDonald Peter Cushman and Sarah Sanderson King3. High-Speed Management and Global CompetitionAndrzej K. Kozminski4. High-Speed Management, Environmental Scanning, and Coalignment of External Resources: Strategic AlliancesBranislav Kovacic5. Leadership—Creating High-Speed Synergy in the OrganizationKrzysztof Obloj6. High-Speed Management and the New Corporate Culture: IBM and GE—A Study in ContrastsAnne Maydan Nicotera7. Organizational Teamwork: A High-Speed Management PerspectiveYanan Ju8. High-Speed Management and Contingency Value Chains: Time as a Competitive Advantage in the Global MarketplaceNils M. Larsen and Pat Joynt9. High-Speed Management and New Product DevelopmentGeorge Tuttle10. The Influence of High-Speed Management on Small BusinessRowland G. Baughman11. High-Speed Management and Continuous Improvement: Teamwork Applications at General ElectricJanet M. Flynn and Franca Caré12. High-Speed Management at the Toyota and General Electric CompaniesScott R. Olson13. Communication and Management in the Global EconomySarah Sanderson King and Donald Peter CushmanContributorsIndex