A declaration on open regionalism in the Pacific

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As the focus for its Ninth General Meeting - the first ever in the U.S. - the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) chose "Open Regionalism: A Pacific Model for Global Economic Cooperation." In support of this theme, representatives of the twenty Pacific economies that make up the Council prepared and signed an unusual declaration. It sets forth, for the first time anywhere, the conditions essential for an open region and commits the Council to work in support of these conditions. PECC also issued an accompanying statement that presents the rationale for its San Francisco Declaration. Together, the Declaration and Statement bring the unofficial PECC to a new stage in its historic mission of shaping an open Pacific region. Now its challenge will be to give effect to the Declaration. Several important projects are being considered. For maximum effect, this work will require the cooperation of the new official government organization, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Interpretation and construction, Economic aspects, Economic policy, Commercial treaties, Trade agreements, Pacific Area, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council

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Coming of middle age in Business and Society

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When it was a new, lively field of study, Business and Society quickly gained an important place in the curriculum by addressing issues largely ignored in business education. Today, that growth is slowing down, not because the issues are less important, but because many of them are being addressed by the functional fields of business. The future of the field will be importantly determined by its ability to become part of the evolving changes shaping the business curriculum. This article is based on the keynote address presented at the Annual Research Workshop on the Social Issues Division of the Academy of Management, San Francisco, California, August 12, 1990. CMR invited three other leading scholars in the field - Lee Preston of the University of Maryland, James Post of Boston University, and Karen Paul of the Rochester Institute of Technology - to offer their comments on Cheit's address. Their responses follow the article. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

College faculty, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Curricula, Study and teaching, University of Maryland, Community relations, Boston University, Preston, Lee E., Post, James E., Paul, Karen, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Business schools and their critics

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Critics blame the declining U.S. economy on business education. However, such criticism of business education has been occurring since the nineteenth century. Part of the problems currently facing the business schools stems from trying to appease conflicting views of the old and modern criticisms.

Analysis, Competition (Economics), Management research

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