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Advances in Competitiveness Research articles from January 1 2000
An academic journal focusing on concept, theory, and research in commercial competitiveness and globalization. Articles discuss global economic, technological, and management issues. Includes book reviews. This is the research journal for the American Soc
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Advances in Competitiveness Research archives from January 1 2000
TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN WESTERN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST.(Review)
January 1, 2000... TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN WESTERN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Eli M. Noam (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1997, 244 pp.
One of the fastest growing and most dynamic global industry, telecommunications is emerging as an engine of growth and...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS TAKE-OFF IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES.(Review)
January 1, 2000... TELECOMMUNICATIONS TAKE-OFF IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES
Karl-Ernst Schenk, Jorn Kruse and Jurgen Muller (eds.), Avebury, 1997, 252 pp.
One of the fastest growing and most dynamic global industry, telecommunications is emerging as an engine...
LEAPFROGGING DEVELOPMENT: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESTRUCTURING.(Review)
January 1, 2000... LEAPFROGGING DEVELOPMENT: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESTRUCTURING
J.P.Singh, State University of New York Press, 1999, 300 pp.
One of the fastest growing and most dynamic global industry, telecommunications is...
What is the Meaning of Competitive Advantage?
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
The terminology used in the field of strategic management that might possibly garner the prize for the most overworked and least understood catch-phrase is "competitive advantage." The extension of that phrase into...
PLANNING FOR RESULTS-ORIENTED HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
Many stakeholders in higher education are seeking major educational reforms. Employers want more emphasis on job-related skills. State councils of higher education are seeking results-oriented measures of performance. Many...
ELECTRONICALLY WIRING THE NETWORK: EFFICIENT CONSUMER RESPONSE (ECR) ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI) AND INTERDEPENDENCE.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the phenomena of the electronic revolution in buyer-seller networks, the impact of electronic data interchange (EDI) in relation to the development of network formation, and the...
INTERNATIONALIZATION OF BORN GLOBAL AND GRADUAL GLOBALIZING FIRMS: THE IMPACT OF THE MANAGER.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
March and Simon (1958) argue that, due to a large behavioral component, strategic choices reflect the idiosyncrasies of decision-makers. To each administrative situation, each decision-maker brings his or her own set of...
THE EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE OF ASIAN BRANDS ON THE PURCHASE DECISIONS OF YOUNG AMERICAN CONSUMERS ON PRODUCTS FROM CHINA, JAPAN, AND SOUTH KOREA.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
The U.S. market has been a constant target of many firms around the world for the last half century, in particular Asian firms. Today, few people deny that a growing number of Japanese firms have successfully penetrated the...
CHANGING CORPORATE STRATEGIES: RESTORING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE THROUGH VERTICAL DISINTEGRATION.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
Since the early 1980s the U.S. manufacturing sector has been swept by corporate restructuring. As corporate restructuring encompasses significant and rapid changes in firms' assets, capital structure or organizational...
INTERNATIONAL GROWTH STRATEGIES: PURPOSES, MOTIVES AND RISKS.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
International growth strategies are equity-based expansions by corporations to acquire ownership in foreign firms that can be used to further the corporate goals. These equity based strategies are also referred to as direct...
TOWARD AN ADVANTAGE-BASED VIEW OF THE FIRM.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
Strategic Management researchers and practitioners alike have long been preoccupied with the phenomenon of persistent superior performance demonstrated by highly successful firms. As such, a great deal of attention has been...
COMPETITIVENESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REFLECTIONS ON THE GROWING DEBATE ABOUT GLOBALIZATION.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
The 21st century is here and our prognostications about the future are being realized. Nowhere have our predictions been more optimistic than in our discussions of global competitiveness. Competitiveness is, by definition,...
THE FUTURE GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS OF JAPAN AND GERMANY.
January 1, 2000... This year (1999) marks the 10th annual conference of the American Society for Competitiveness (ASC)--an organization focused on how firms and countries enhance their competitiveness. Competitiveness is no small matter. It plays a monumental...
ENRON, ENERGY AND GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Enron Corporation was created in 1985 as a result of a merger of four natural gas pipelines and one exploration and production (E&P) company. Enron today has five key businesses--wholesale trading, pipelines, new ventures, retail energy sales,...
RETHINKING COMPETITIVENESS.
January 1, 2000... In the era of globalization, the forces that dictate and shape events are intense, dynamic, and numerous. This makes many of the existing conceptualizations about competitiveness and the global firm's role in society obsolete if not totally...