Advances in Competitiveness Research articles from January 1 2002

Advances in Competitiveness Research archives from January 1 2002

Global anxiety: militarization or integration of the world economy?
January 1, 2002... Amid the gloom of current world affairs, there are hopeful signs and promising opportunities that stand out, by which the current state can be withstood. On May 24, 2002, the U.S. and Russia signed a landmark nuclear arms pact, which cuts the...

How the United States used competition to win the Cold War.
January 1, 2002... ABSTRACT This paper looks at the end of the Cold War as the end of a monumental competition. Until 1981, the United States competed mainly on its own side of the playing field. It was a good defensive effort called containment, but it...

The language of national insecurity: prediction, strategy, and geopolitics.
January 1, 2002... ABSTRACT Credible predictions (in the sense of forecasting future events) are notoriously difficult to achieve in human affairs. Predictions, once made public, invite counter maneuvers by adversaries. But whether presented in public or...

Competitive success in an age of alliance capitalism: how do firm-specific factors affect behavior in strategic alliances?
January 1, 2002... ABSTRACT This paper suggests that alliances may not necessarily be the first cut strategy for all firms. It explores the theoretical proposition that while partnerships can be beneficial, some firms may simply fail to generate relational...

Global IT/IS outsourcing: expectations, considerations and implications.
January 1, 2002... ABSTRACT This paper discusses the issues of global IT/IS outsourcing from four interrelated aspects: forming an appropriate global IT strategy, using proper global IT platforms, managing international data sharing, and surviving the...

The labor productivity competitiveness of U.S. versus foreign commercial banks.
January 1, 2002... ABSTRACT The productivity of labor, measured as the ratio of employees to total assets, has since the 1970s been a common measure of bank performance. Using what this article argues is a better indicator of the competitiveness of...

An empirical study of the desirability and challenges of implementing transnational marketing strategies.
January 1, 2002... ABSTRACT The integration-responsiveness (I-R) framework was employed to study the relationship among the alternate international marketing strategies (multidomestic, multifocal, global, transnational). Specifically, the study investigated...

Global governance: take me to your leader.
January 1, 2002... ABSTRACT Business globalization is about doing business globally. This apparent tautology underscores a very basic corporate misconception--that domestic and international markets are so different in their goals and practice that they...

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation.(Supply Chains to Virtual Integration)
January 1, 2002... Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation Sunil Chopra, and Peter Meindl. NY: Prentice Hall, 2001. Supply Chains to Virtual Integration Ram Reddy and Sabine Reddy. NY: McGraw Hill, 2001. Reviewed by Menberu Lulu,...