MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTING WEB

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Investment Management Questions

Question 22

22. Fill in the table below and discuss the compatibility of the investment management concepts with the concepts of communitarian and individualistic capitalism.

Concept Communitarian Individualistic
 Organizational structure? Horizontal or flat. Vertical or hierarchical.
 Information flow? Horizontal & bottom up. Vertical & top down.
 Culture within the organization? Cooperative consensus
team building culture.
Competitive culture.
 Investment analysis approach? Integrated (portfolio)
and long term.
Project by project
 and short term.

The communitarian, collectivist, or team oriented concepts are compatible with the investment management approach. The individualistic concepts are incompatible.