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team in reality. AA can suggest to CP Director to lower or increase individual grade of a student from the team for specific quality of his/her input in the project. The Career Center provides AA with the contact information of the Client Companies representative(s). The Career Center also is available for any help in making the initial contact with the CC. 9. The Academic Advisors contact the Client Companies within 1-2 days after they are approved to work in the CP and discuss depth and scope of the CP students work required to achieve the objectives being set by the CC. 10. CP student teams decide on the major contact person or on other ways for the most efficient communication. 11. The CP Course Director arranges a meeting at GSOM to discuss the CP process, criteria and goals. At the meeting the CP teams elect the CP Team Coordinator and decide about the best time for the Initial Meeting at the CC premises. The CP team members also give to AA their short CVs with a focus on the academic and personal background to be forwarded to the CC with the purpose of pre-introduction of the CP Team and fitting of the topic, objectives, the depth and scope of the projected CP to the abilities of the students in the CP Team. 12. AA contacts the CC and arranges the Initial Meeting in such way that it balances the time availability situation of the CP students, so they do not have to miss other GSOM classes. Also, the AA discusses with the CC the details of the process, requirements to the CC by GSOM, the grading policy, grading components and criteria. AA also finds out from CC which criteria the CC will apply in assessing the quality of the CP work by the CP Team. AA asks the CC to prepare full information about the criteria to be given to the CP Team at the Initial Meeting. AA also collects Executive Summaries of each team-members professional profile to share it to CC as a supporting info for making the topics depth and scope ideal for this group. 13. The Initial Meeting happens. The picture of the CP work process, its deadlines and checkpoints are defined. There is some kind of confirmation (e.g. an email message) from the CC of the final version of the topic and requirements for the CP project work results and process. 14. After the Initial Meeting at the premises of the CC, and after an optional meeting with AA as a follow-up, the CP team submits to the CP Course Director the finalized topic of the CP with a signature (or electronic confirmation by AA), and a schedule of the planned work. 15. During Midterm the CP Team provides the CP Course Director with an Interim Report on the CP progress, accomplished work and challenges. 16. A special CP Course Commission is formed by the CP Course Director. 17. In about 8-9 weeks after start of CP, the CP Team develops a Final Report, and a special presentation of the accomplished work and results is held at the CC premises. The CP Team gets a grade 1-10 from the CC stated in the Assessment letter by the CC. CC gives a feedback after the Presentation. 18. AA and, if requested, CP Course Director provide a consultation regarding the Final Report writing and the Client Company & GSOM Presentation.
19. CP team submits the Final Report to the CP Course Director 2 days before the GSOM Presentation - to be shared with the CP Commission members. Failing to submit the Report on time results in failing the course or drastically lower grade for the course. 20. CP teams are informed of the time limits of their presentations, the date and the Rm number are confirmed for the Presentation. 21. Academic Advisor submits his/her Assessment Letter in English after the GSOM Presentation. 22. CP Academic Advisors or CP teams provide Client Company Assessment Letters in English after the CP Presentation. 23. Presentations by all CP teams are held at GSOM to provide the Commission members with the opportunity to hear all presentations it evaluates, to ask questions and to grade the teams. All other teams are required to learn from the other teams presentations and participate in the discussion of the projects. The Commission may consist of both GSOM faculty members, CP Director and representatives of the business community. 24. After the presentations, the CP team-members fill in the CP Course Questionnaires. 25. Grades (are announced within 2-3 days after all necessary documents are submitted (Company Assessment Letter, AA Assessment Letter, CP Course Questionnaires). 26. A feedback regarding the CP teams performance is available from the CP Commission after the presentations of all teams are finished. 29. If requested, CP Teams get a copy of CC Assessment Letter for their files/portfolio for career-building and networking purposes. It is also advised to e-mail a Thank You note to the CC to support a good business contact for a further career development in Russia or internationally. It is absolutely important to consider the Consulting Project work and contacts as a great networking and career-building opportunity.
The CP team will be avid to have the objectives of the project and to develop together with the CP and AA the framework and milestones of the further working process, deadlines, interim checking point in the work, mechanism and logistics of business communication with the company, and the ways of overcoming any possible barriers to do the best job in the CP project. 5. The issue of access to the information and data sometimes poses a barrier to overcome at the very initial and/further stages of the CP work. Some companies require the students to sign a Confidentiality Agreement. It is between the company and the students. Obviously, no sound recommendations can be developed if there is no quality business research and analysis, and the latter are absolutely impossible without sound data and information. It also benefits the goals, effectiveness and efficiency of the project if the students have access to the previous research/work on the issue of the CP topic. The majority of international companies do believe in the Integrity of the GSOM and international students. The CP students are also strictly forbidden to disclose companys confidential information during and after the CP work process.
8. AA will contact the CC to find a time slot and date convenient for everybody to meet at the CC premises. Be ready that the meeting may be appointed for early morning or early evening not to miss any classes at GSOM. 9. Be on time for the Initial Meeting at the CC premises. You have a team you are responsible for as well. There can be traffic problems, so plan accordingly. Discuss with your team-members the goal of the meeting, your knowledge about the company and its standing on the market, both Russian and international, be ready with good questions to develop a very clear picture what the client wants and expects from the CP. At the Initial Meeting at the company its important to introduce yourself, to show your motivation, the confidence based on your background, achievements and potential as aspiring professionals. As a result of the Meeting you will also need to get the CP topic finalized. To be able to analyze the information quickly, the reading you have done about the company and industry both on the Russian and international level will prove to be very useful. The meeting is important to get answers for the questions you will raise, the issues you may identify, priorities you will see in the CP work on the issue. Listen attentively. Clearer the picture of your CC and its vision of the results is, easier and more enjoyable the CP work will be. If necessary, express your concerns, ask practical questions (about the procedure of your work at the CC, about the access to the info and the people from other departments- if it is necessary for your CP success, etc). Ask about the criteria the CC will be using in assessing the quality of your Teams work. 10. After the Meeting the CP team must send the finalized CP topic to the CP Course Director, as well as the schedule of the steps in the project by the CP team. 11. In the end of November (Fall Semester) or in the end of March (Spring Semester) your team must send an Interim Report covering the work accomplished by this date with a signature (or an electronic confirmation) by your AA. Basing on this interim report your team will get Pass as a midterm grade in the CP. In the beginning of the CP discuss with your AA his/her schedule and the best time and day of the week when your CP Team can contact him/her for an opinion, advise, help, suggestion, critique etc. The AA is appointed to guide you in the project and to make sure that everything possible is done to help your CP Team reach the objectives of the CP work.
For assessment of the Final Report presentation, the following criteria are used:
Close correlation between the objectives as they are stated in the Report and by the CC, and the results, recommendations and conclusions. Availability of all sections of information, analysis and discussions to support the objective and achieving of the results, recommendations and conclusions as they are stated in the Final Report Clarity in presentation, text, analysis and all other segments of the Final Report No misspelling or other signs of sloppy report-writing Level of organization of the written presentation of the CP work Following all rules of Reference, Bibliography and Report writing as used at GSOM Effort level to make it reader-friendly, well-structured, and professionally-looking
GSOM Presentation quality criteria: 1. Meeting the time limits, structuring of the presentation to meet the Audience needs 2. Quality of the slides, with absence of spelling & grammar and other mistakes or sloppiness. 3. Dynamic nature of the presentation & enthusiasm of the presenting team 4. Knowledge of the subject and clarity in the purpose of the presentation. 5. Highlighting the most important issues, results, recommendations to achieve the focus of the audience. The CP is graded in ECTS, and it means that it is done on a competitive basis among the teams. Team members get the same grade except rare situations when a specific team member happened to ignore the need to add his/her input in the team work as was expected by the team. In this case, there should be a written request from the team to exclude the student from the grading result. In this case the student will have to repeat the course.
The Final Report shall have the following core parts: 1. Title page 2. Plan (Content) Samples of a Title Page and a Plan are available in the Appendix 1. 3. Introduction. It should clearly state the CP topic, objectives, theoretical and practical importance, the level of novelty of the issue for the current business practice. There should be detailed and logically-structured description of the CP Teams approach in their work on the issue. It is important to keep in mind that a reader pays attention not so much on what could have been done and said in the work, but on the objectives of the CP work, the solution and how they were accomplished. 4. Final Project Core Part: 4.1 Company and Industry Profile and Analysis related to the CP topic and objectives. 4.2 Business Theory applicable to the CP Issue. 4.3 Description of the research and experimental/practical work done by the CP team to accomplish the objectives. Statement of the results. Relevant illustration of the results implication. 4.4 Recommendations 4.5 Prioritizing (if applicable) of the recommendations. Discussion of a possible follow-up research work to achieve a greater depth/scope of a solution for the CP problem and adjunct problems the company and/or industry face. 5. Conclusions CP Final Report conclusions are expected to be worded so that they reflect the goal and objectives of the CP as they were stated in the Introduction. This Part may also include concise and limited comments on the achieved results of the CP. 6. BIBLIOGRAPHY (according to the format in Appendix 1) 7. Final Report Appendix It may include the data, charts, exhibits etc to which the CP team refers a reader of the Final Report.
APPENDIX 1. TITLE LIST FORMAT, TABLE OF CONTENT, LITERATURE REVIEW, REFERENCES (AS REQUIRED FOR GSOM MASTER THESIS & OTHER WORKS).
St. Petersburg State University Graduate School of Management Program _______
CONSULTING PROJECT TOPIC (CENTERED, NO QUOTATION MARKS) (NAME OF THE CLIENT COMPANY)
Consulting Project Final Report by ____________ (name) (name) ______ ______________________ Academic Advisor: (name, academic title) St. Petersburg Year
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Table of Content
Introduction 1. Chapter title. 1.1 Paragraph title 2. Chapter title. Conclusions Recommendations List of References.. Appendix 1. Appendix title Appendix2. Appendix title
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The literature review portion of the CP Final Report is designed to (1) familiarize you with essential background on your topic; (2) familiarize the reader of your CP work with what has already been written on the topic; (3) demonstrate that the study you intend to undertake is original, that is, has not already been done; and (4) show where the study you will perform fits into the general literature in the field, that is, what gap it will fill in the relevant body of knowledge. A literature review is not an annotated bibliography, nor should it be just a series of disjointed paragraphs, each summarizing a different article or book. The literature you identify must be read, summarized, discussed, synthesized and analyzed, not just listed. It will probably be necessary for you to categorize the literature you survey to make sense of it for yourself and your readers. In other words, you will need to identify the key issues or questions that will be part of your thesis and then structure your literature review around those issues or questions. Segments of the literature review often are introduced by statements such as:
Several authors have contended that privatization will mean higher costs and less access on the Internet (Brown 2005; Sedov 2006).
Then within that paragraph you would pull out what other authors have said on that particular issue:
Taking the contrary view, Maloff (2006), has argued that that fierce competition has the Internet on the edge of a new wave of cost reductions.
This would lead you into another point of view. Then you would move on to the next issue. (Please see Attachment 1 for more tips). At the end of the literature review you should identify what remains to be done in this area, that is, what hasn't been written yet, and state briefly how your study will help fill that gap in the literature. Do not rely on only one method for identifying relevant literature. Certainly you will want to use computerized databases, such as EBSCO, Science Direct, etc., to help you identify appropriate literature, but do not forget to read the references in items you find and to check bibliographies in books. These can be invaluable sources of other relevant materials. All literature reviews must be carefully referenced. The School of Management of the SPb State University uses the author-date system of source citation, also known as Chicago. Sources are cited in the text of the thesis, in parentheses, by the authors last (family) name, the publication date of the work cited, and a page number if needed. Full details appear in a single, comprehensive reference list at the end of the thesis. The general rules for the author-date system are set forth in The Chicago Manual of Style, the standard manual for academic editors. The SOM version of the author-date system is based on the 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (Attachments 2, 3).
Attachment 1 In-Text Author-Date Citations Traditionally, the presence of incomplete contracts is seen as posing incentive problems (Hart 1995). Recent management research has began to explore dynamic capability (Teece et al. 2002; Teece and Pisano 2004). According to Kletzer (2001), two-thirds of workers displaced from import-competing industries who found new employment earned less on the new job. For example, Flood and Taylor (1996) show that long-run data support , as denoted in Box (2) in Figure 1. Goldberg (2002) examines a panel of BIS data on investigates the role of argues that claims that comments that has noted that mentions focuses his attention on looked at report similar results and suggest that challenge analyze propose estimate the 2006 cost to consumers at $24 billion, or around $1 million per job saved in the industries.
As Haldane and Taylor (2003) clearly point out: IMF facilities can usefully be used as a kind of insurance policy. [. . .] Liquidity crisis represents a real hazard that such insurance can help mitigate (p. 122). In particular, like Goldberg (2002), we find that or/ We find that (as found by Dages et al. 2000; Peek and Rosengren 2000; and Goldberg 2002). Lane and Milesi-Ferretti (2004) explore the theoretical link between provide evidence that discuss survey the literature on use a consensus classification to check
The study by Bailliu, Lafrance, and Perraut (2002) is noteworthy in that it combines
In a recent paper, Mishkin (2000) enumerates Studies such as Van Rijckeghem and Weder (2003) have shown that Research in the 1990s (for example, Ramey and Ramey 1995) reached a conclusion that Recent research also considers various channels (for example, Mendoza 1997; and Turnovsky and Fatas 2000). In addition, Lucass (1987) work suggested that The concept has been recently developed by Calvo and Talvi (2003). Ghosh and others (1997) is an early example where this distinction is made. There is a large empirical literature studying the role of . For example, using a variety of methods, several researches, including Sachs and Warner (1995), Frankel (1999) and Dollar and Kraay (2002), show that Berg and Kruger (2003), Baldwin (2003), and Winters (2004) provide extensive surveys of the literature on trade and growth. That was one of his central tenets in his 1966 book, Modern Economic Growth (Kuznets 1966). His 1982 book The Slave Power is still He quoted the North British Review (February 1992, 142), saying . As described in Andrew C. Revkins NASA Curbs Comments on Ice Disaster Movie (New York Times 2004), . For industrial countries, Eichengreen, Rose, and Wyplosz (1996) use an alternative measure Previous work (for example, Lane and Milesi-Ferretti 2004) has not found a systematic effect of The well-known analyses of Balassa (1964) and Samuelson (1964) provide an appealing explanation of Following Canzoneri, Cumby, and Diba (1999), we use restrictions on to derive a simple form of the relation The argument that is made in Palmer (2000) and Peek and Rosengren (2000). This argument is made by Porter (2004). Analysts, such as Kuznets, Burns, and others thought that (Kuznets 1961; Colm 1962; and Samuelson 1992). The Ramey and Ramey (1995) results are based on a data set that Evidence suggested that (Berg and Pattillo 1999a).
In light of this research, IMF staff has implemented various models to predict , as described in Berg and others (2000). Some discussion of the role of can be found in IMF (2002) and in Berg and others (2000). For a review of recent developments in this literature, see Abiad (2003). was the model of Kaminsky, Lizondo, and Reinhart (1998). The second model assumes that , as in Armingtons (1969) model. While the basic data set we use is the latest version of the Penn World Tables (Heston, Summers, and Aten 2002), we supplement that with data from various other sources, including . Most of the dates of are taken from Bekaert, Harvey, and Lundblat (2002). The first test (IPS), based on Im, Persan, and Shin (2003), indicate that A chronology of crises in the region was obtained from Caprio and Klingebiel (1999) and Bordo and others (2001). Growth and interest rate figures come from the International Financial Statistics (IFS), published by the International Monetary Fund. The credit ratings used are those reported by Institutional Investor magazine. This ratio is calculated from the BISs Consolidated Banking Statistics. These figures, which include , come from Salomon Smith Barney (2000). There were about 21 million people thrown on a job market of about 60 million including the armed forces and the defense establishment (U.S. Bureau of the Census 2003, Table 220).
Attachment 2 In-Text Parenthetic Reference Corresponding Reference List Entry BOOKS Single author: (Grant 2005) Grant, Robert M. 2005. Contemporary strategy analysis. 5th ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
For direct quotations the page number is also included: (Sherman 2004, 23-24) Sherman, Andrew J. 2004. Franchising and licensing: Two powerful ways to grow your business in any economy. 3d ed. New York: AMACOM. Volkov, A. 1991. Sweden: Social-economic model. [In Russian.] Moscow: Mysl. Volkov, Dmitri L. 2006. Financial accounting: Theory, application, and reporting. [In Russian.] St. Petersburg: Publishing House of St. Petersburg State Univ. Claw, Kenneth E., and Donald Baack. 2004. Integrated advertising, promotion, and marketing communications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Maher, Michael W., Clyde P. Stickney, and Roman L. Well. 2006. Managerial accounting: An introduction to concepts, methods, and uses. 9th ed. Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South-Western.
More than three authors: (Allen et al. 2005) Allen, Brandt R., E. Richard Brownlee II, Mark E. Haskins, and Luann J. Lynch. 2005. Cases in management accounting and control systems. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. International Organization for Standardization. 2001. Information and documentation: Bibliographic references. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/6902e.htm. Chapter in a single-author book: (Downs 1967, 16-17) Chapters or introductions by someone other than the author: (Porter 2005) Porter, Michael. 2005. The CEO as strategist. In Strategy bites back: It is far more and less, then you ever imagined, by H. Mintzberg, B. Ahjstrand, and J. Lampel. Harlow, England: Prentice Hall FT. Downs, Anthony. 1967. The life cycle of bureaus. In Inside bureaucracy, 5-23. Boston: Little Brown.
Contribution to a multiauthor book: (Clipson et al. 1995) Clipson, C., J. Steen, A. Tornquist, and P. Ullmark. 1995. Building for new production concepts. In Enriching production: Perspectives on Volvos Uddevalla plant as an alternative to lean production, ed. A. Sandberg, 137-156. Aldershot: Avebury.
Or several contributions to the same book: (Sandberg 1995) Sandberg, Ake, ed. 1995. Enriching production: Perspectives on Volvos Uddevalla plant as an alternative to lean production. Aldershot: Avebury.
Clipson, C., J. Steen, A. Tornquist, and P. Ullmark. 1995. Building for new production concepts. In Sandberg 1995, 137-156.
Russian authors: (Shirokova 2005) Shirokova, Galina V. 2005. Organizational change management. [In Russian] St. Petersburg: Publishing House of St. Petersburg State Univ. Kushelevich E., and G. Philonovich. 2004. Modeli zhiznennyh tsiklov organizatsii. In Management: Vek vek I, eds. Oleg S. Vikhanskii and A.M. Naumov. Moscow: Economist.
ARTILES IN PERIODICALS (JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS) Article in a journal: (Greiner 1998) Greiner, Larry E. 1998. Evolution and revolution as organizations grow. Harvard Business Review 76 (3):55-68.
Miller D., and P. Friesen. 1984. A longitudinal study of the corporate life cycle. Management Science 30 (10):1161-83.
Same author, same year: (Shirokova 2005a) Shirokova, Galina V. 2005a. Managing stereotypes and organizational life-cycle. [In Russian.] Vestnik of St Petersburg State University: Management Series 8 (2):76-95. ________. 2005b. Theory O and theory E as organizational change strategies. [In Russian.] Management in Russia and Abroad 1:61-68.
(Shirokova 2005b)
Article in a popular magazine: (Lashinsky 2006) Newspaper article: Your text giving the Title of the Article here (SanktPeterburgskiye Vedomosti, 5 April 2006, A7) News items from daily newspapers are rarely listed in a reference list, unless the newspaper is referred to several times and constitutes a substantial part of the documentation. If the newspaper citation needs to be included in the reference list, follow this model: Lashinsky, Adam. 2006. The Hurd way: How a salesobsessed CEO rebooted HP. Fortune, April 17, 91-96.
Unsigned articles: (New York Times 2002) New York Times. 2002. In Texas, ad heats up race governor. July 30.
Article from a full-text database: (Kazanjian 1988) Kazanjian R.K. 1988. Relation of dominant problems to stages of growth in technology-based new ventures. Academy of Management Journal. 31 (2): 257-279. Retrieved from EBSCO.
Public documents: (U.S. Senate Committee 1956, 910) Online newspapers, news services: (Mitchell and Bruni 2001)
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. 1956. The Mutual Security Act of 1956. 84th Cong., 2d sess. S.Rep. 2273.
Mitchell, Alison, and Frank Bruni. Scars still raw, Bush clashes with McCain. New York Times, March 25. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/politics/25VCCA. html (accessed January 2, 2002). Satel, Sally. 2003. OxyContin half-truths can cause suffering. USA Today, October 27. Retrieved from EBSCO. Reuters. 2001. Russian blasts kill 21, injure more than 140. Yahoo! News, March 24. http://dailynews.yahoo.com.
(Stenger 1999) Stenger, Richard. 1999. Tiny human CNN.com, December 20. http://www.cnn.com/1999/TECH... . Site content: (Federation of American Scientists) Federation of American Scientists. Resolution comparison: Reading license plates and headlines. http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/petet_bio.html Schwartz, G.J. 2000. Multiwavelength analyses of classical carbon-oxygen. PhD diss., Arizona State Univ.
Theses and dissertations: (Schwarz 2000) Papers presented at meetings: (OBrien 1987)
OBrien, T.C. 1987. Touching greatness: Some aspects of . Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York.
Working papers and other unpublished works: (Ferber 1971) Ferber, R. 1971. Family decision-making and economic behavior. Faculty Working Paper 35, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Attachment 3
REFERENCES
Allen, Brandt R., E. Richard Brownlee II, Mark E. Haskins, and Luann J. Lynch. 2005. Cases in management accounting and control systems. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Claw, Kenneth E., and Donald Baack. 2004. Integrated advertising, promotion, and marketing communications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Clipson, C., J. Steen, A. Tornquist, and P. Ullmark. 1995. Building for new production concepts. In Enriching production: Perspectives on Volvos Uddevalla plant as an alternative to lean production, ed. A. Sandberg, 137-156. Aldershot: Avebury. Downs, Anthony. 1967. The life cycle of bureaus. In Inside bureaucracy, 5-23. Boston: Little Brown. Federation of American Scientists. Resolution comparison: Reading license plates and headlines. http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/petet_bio.html. Ferber, R. 1971. Family decision-making and economic behavior. Faculty Working Paper 35, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Grant, Robert M. 2005. Contemporary strategy analysis. 5th ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Greiner, Larry E. 1998. Evolution and revolution as organizations grow. Harvard Business Review 76 (3):55-68. International Organization for Standardization. 2001. Information and documentation: Bibliographic references. Ottawa: National Library of Canada. http://www.nlcbnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/690-2e.htm. Kazanjian R.K. 1988. Relation of dominant problems to stages of growth in technology-based new ventures. Academy of Management Journal. 31 (2): 257-279. Retrieved from EBSCO. Kushelevich E., and G. Philonovich. 2004. Modeli zhiznennyh tsiklov organizatsii. In Management: Vek vek I, eds. Oleg S. Vikhanskii and A.M. Naumov. Moscow: Economist. Lashinsky, Adam. 2006. The Hurd way: How a sales-obsessed CEO rebooted HP. Fortune, April 17, 91-96. Maher, Michael W., Clyde P. Stickney, and Roman L. Well. 2006. Managerial accounting: An introduction to concepts, methods, and uses. 9th ed.Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South-Western. Miller D., and P. Friesen. 1984. A longitudinal study of the corporate life cycle. Management Science 30 (10):1161-83. Mitchell, Alison, and Frank Bruni. Scars still raw, Bush clashes with McCain. New York Times, March 25. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/politics/25VCCA.html (accessed January 2, 2002).
New York Times. 2002. In Texas, ad heats up race governor. July 30. OBrien, T.C. 1987. Touching greatness: Some aspects of . Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York. Porter, Michael. 2005. The CEO as strategist. In Strategy bites back: It is far more and less, then you ever imagined, by H. Mintzberg, B. Ahjstrand, and J. Lampel. Harlow, England: Prentice Hall FT. Reuters. 2001. Russian blasts kill 21, injure more than 140. Yahoo! News, March 24. http://dailynews.yahoo.com. Sandberg, Ake, ed. 1995. Enriching production: Perspectives on Volvos Uddevalla plant as an alternative to lean production. Aldershot: Avebury. Satel, Sally. 2003. OxyContin half-truths can cause suffering. USA Today, October 27. Retrieved from EBSCO. Schwartz, G.J. 2000. Multiwavelength analyses of classical carbon-oxygen. PhD diss., Arizona State Univ. Sherman, Andrew J. 2004. Franchising and licensing: Two powerful ways to grow your business in any economy. 3d ed. New York: AMACOM. Shirokova, Galina V. 2005a. Organizational change management. [In Russian] St. Petersburg: Publishing House of St. Petersburg State Univ. ________. 2005b. Managing stereotypes and organizational life-cycle. [In Russian.] Vestnik of St Petersburg State University: Management Series 8 (2):76-95. ________. 2005c. Theory O and theory E as organizational change strategies. [In Russian.] Management in Russia and Abroad 1:61-68. Stenger, Richard. 1999. Tiny human CNN.com, December 20. http://www.cnn.com/1999/TECH... . U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. 1956. The Mutual Security Act of 1956. 84th Cong., 2d sess. S.Rep. 2273. Volkov, A. 1991. Sweden: Social-economic model. [In Russian.] Moscow: Mysl. Volkov, Dmitri L. 2006. Financial accounting: Theory, application, and reporting. [In Russian.] St. Petersburg: Publishing House of St. Petersburg State Univ.