The New Leaders or The Asian Financial Crisis

The New Leaders: Leadership Diversity in America

Author: Ann M Morrison

By the year 2000, white males will represent less than one third of the American workforce. In this universally praised work, Ann Morrison, co-author of Breaking The Glass Ceiling, becomes the first to offer companies practical strategies for moving tomorrow's new leaders -- white women and people of color -- into the executive ranks. Using personal interviews with nearly 200 managers in organizations noted for their model diversity programs, Morrison presents a very definite, step-by-step action plan that will prove invaluable to leaders looking to guide their businesses into the next century.

Library Journal

This book builds on Breaking the Glass Ceiling (Addison-Wesley, 1987), which Morrison coauthored, and addresses issues of concern to white women and people of color. It is based on a study involving 16 organizations (both profit and nonprofit) identified as role models in diversity in management. The book is organized in three parts. The first discusses organizational benefits of developing diversity. The next part presents a strategy designed to make upper-level management positions available to nontraditional managers. The last part suggests specific steps to design and implement a diversity plan. Effective coverage of an important topic for the future; recommended for practitioners and students of management.-- Grace Klinefelter, Ft. Lauderdale Coll., Fla.

Booknews

Intended primarily for organizational leaders, but useful also to employees who differ in gender and ethnicity from management and want insight on how to get ahead. Describes the benefits and challenges of actively seeking women and minorities for management track positions, and tells how to do it. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Contagion and Consequences

Author: David Vines

The first theoretical analysis of the Asian Financial Crisis--perhaps the single most important economic event of the 1990s--starts by presenting a factual and analytic overview of what happened. It goes on to consider why crisis turned into collapse, speculative attacks, and contagion and finishes with a round table discussion of policy issues. The distinguished contributors are from organizations including IMF, the World Bank and the Bank for International Settlements. This is vital reading for policy professionals as well as researchers and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Preface
	List of conference participants
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations and acronyms
	Introduction	1
1	The role of macroeconomic and financial sector linkages in East Asia's financial crisis	9
	Discussion
2	The Asian crisis: lessons from the collapse of financial systems, exchange rates and macroeconomic policy	67
Appendix	Thailand, a stylised chronology
	Discussion
3	Are capital inflows to developing countries a vote for or against economic policy reforms?	112
	Discussion
4	The Asian crisis: an overview of the empirical evidence and policy debate	127
	Appendix
	Discussion
5	Capital markets and the instability of open economies	167
Appendix 1	solving the model in the Leontief case
Appendix 2	why full financial liberalisation - unlike foreign direct investment - may destabilise an emerging market economy
	Discussion
6	Volatility and the welfare costs of financial market integration	195
	Discussion
7	A theory of the onset of currency attacks	230
	Discussion
8	Contagion: monsoonal effects, spillovers and jumps between multiple equilibria	265
	Discussion
9	Contagion and trade: why are currency crises regional?	284
	Appendix
	Discussion
10	Competition, complementarity and contagion in East Asia	312
	Appendix
	Discussion
11	Coping with crises: is there a 'silver bullet'?	357
12	Must financial crises be this frequent and this painful?	386
13	Round Table discussion	404
	Index	412