Synopses & Reviews
The Impact of 9-11 on Business and Economics is the second volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. Morgan. The series brings together from a broad spectrum of disciplines the leading thinkers of our time to reflect on one of the most significant events of our time. The volume reflects on the changes in organizational practices, changes to various industries from transportation and logistics, risk management, food, and the emerging war service industry, and changes to the international financial system. Contributors include Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Paul Smith, Jay Sultan, and other leading scholars.
Review
"An excellent collection of new perspectives for understanding and undertaking measures to apply the lessons from that terrible tragedy.”--John F. Lehman, Chairman, J.F. Lehman & Company, Member, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9-11 Commission)
Review
“Morgan has compiled a timely, thought-provoking collection exploring the global economic and financial impact of Americas 9/11 terrorist attack. [The essays] challenge the reader to reflect, from the esoteric to the pragmatic, on the changes that have occurred and that will continue to affect global business and the ways in which business and finance are conducted. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels of undergraduate students, professionals, and general readers”--Choice"An excellent collection of new perspectives for understanding and undertaking measures to apply the lessons from that terrible tragedy.”--John F. Lehman, Chairman, J.F. Lehman & Company, Member, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9-11 Commission) “So much had been written about how global geopolitical landscape was profoundly changed by 9/11. Its impact on the global economic landscape was no less profound, but has rarely been comprehensively examined. This volume remedies this neglect and provides a most thoughtful assessment of how 9/11 affected business and economics. It also provides vital clues for understanding some precursors of the current economic crisis.”--Nitin Nohria, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and coauthor of In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century
Synopsis
In an inspired piece of criticism, Mohaghegh tracks the idea of chaos into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the so-called "Third Worlds," exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature. Concentratingon writings of the twentieth-century Middle Eastern new wave, including the chaotic configurations of Sadeq Hedayat and Ahmad Shamlu, Mohaghegh uncovers provocative experiments with the outer boundaries of thought and text. What surfaces, in the end, is a rising language of blindness and burial, one that has cast an enigmatic shadow across the future of world literature.
About the Author
Matthew J. Morgan is Director of the Business Systems Analyst Group at Starwood Hotels. He has served in a variety of teaching appointments at various institutions, including Assistant Professor of Government at Bentley College, Lecturer of Organizational and Political Communications at Emerson College, and others. Morgan is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and has completed graduate work at Harvard Business School and the University of Hawai`i. He served six years in U.S. Army intelligence, including a tour in Afghanistan in which he was awarded the Bronze Star. He is the author of A Democracy Is Born (2007) and The American Military after 9/11: Society, State, and Empire (2008).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments * About the Contributors * Foreword--James Heckman * Introduction--Matthew J. Morgan * SECTION I: The Impact on Organizations and Institutions * Leading Change after Crisis-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew J. Morgan * The Effects of 9/11 on the Management of Human Capital in the U.S.--Jack N. Kondrasuk * What Have We Learned from 9/11? The Importance of Human Resource Crisis Planning--Lisa Mainiero and Mousumi Bhattacharya * The Wealth of Nations in the Post 9/11 Era: Lessons from Alternative Futures Planning--Mark Safford and Peter J. Kennedy, Jr. * 9/11, Intelligence and the Senior Executive--Benjamin Gilad * SECTION II: Industry Impacts * Crisis in a Fragile Industry: Airlines Struggle to Survive in an Uncertain Future--Dawna L. Rhoades * The Effects of 9/11 on the Travel Industry-- David Clark and James McGibany * The U.S. Welcome Mat: A Case Study of Post-9/11 Tourism Promotional Efforts--Lisa Fall and Heather Epkins * Achieving National Preparedness: Security Practices in the Motorcoach Industry Post 9/11--Kathryn Ready * The Food We Eat: Safer Now or Then?--O. Shawn Cupp and Allan S. Boyce * Realization of Mega Catastrophes: The Insurance and Risk Management Industries--Etti Baranoff * The Emergence of the War Service Industry--Dina Rasor * SECTION III: The Impact on the International Financial System * Terrorism Finance: Understanding the Financial Foundations of Contemporary Terrorism--Paul J. Smith * Risk Premium, Volatility, and Terrorism: New Evidence-- Jahangir Sultan and O. David Gulley* Contagion and Impulse Response of Emerging Stock Markets to the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks--Kyung-Chun Mun * The Impact of 9/11 on Debt Markets--Irvin W. Morgan, Jr., and James P. Murtagh *The Financial Market Impact of 9/11 and Risk Mitigation Policy on Transportation--Anthony Homan * Business as Usual? Strategic Trade Flows Since 9-11 Between the U.S. and Mexico--Carlos Olmedo, Roberto Tinajero, and Dennis Soden