Advances in Competitiveness Research articles from January 1 2007

Advances in Competitiveness Research archives from January 1 2007

Corporate citizenship and sustainable development.
January 1, 2007... In two surveys conducted by the McKinsey Quarterly two striking results were found. The first is that executives around the world believe that the effective management of sociopolitical concerns must start with CEOs. These executives...

Executive discretion as a driver of firm competitiveness.
January 1, 2007... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In this paper we revisit with more precision and sophistication the phenomenon of executive discretion. Accordingly, we build and improve on limited theory of executive discretion by developing several propositions that...

Strategic planning-firm performance linkage: empirical investigation from an emergent market perspective.
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between strategic planning and firm performance in a non-western, emergent market context. Based on a sample of 28 Jordanian manufacturing organizations, and employing both financial and...

The application of the contingency it deployment strategy: evidence from the Middle East.
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Deployment research reveals that firms apply either one or both of two major deployment strategies: contingency and standardization. This paper is one of two related papers investigating the application of both of these strategies...

Building entrepreneurial e-commerce competitive advantage: a blending of theory and practice.(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A problem for small businesses acting entrepreneurially through extending their business onto the web is that they often lose their primary value-added proposition: the personal focus on the customer. As a result, the...

Project-based international business strategies: the case of the international construction services industry.(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Focusing on the International Construction Services (ICS) industry, this paper explores how far these models apply to non-traditional situations. Do such models capture how firms in the ICS industry compete? Do these models help...

The role of book value in high-tech valuation.
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This paper investigates the anomalous relationship between negative earnings and stock prices for the high-tech sector. We obtain evidence rejecting the claim that including book value in the valuation specification eliminates the...

A transaction cost analysis of restructuring alternatives.
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This study extends the transaction cost economics (TCE) rationale to a firm's choice of two restructuring alternatives--selling off assets and laying off employees. It hypothesizes that a firm's preference between sell-off and...

A leadership development model to improve organizational competitiveness.
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Firm competitive behavior and the sustained effort to remain effective and competitive are very important attributes of successful organizations. As Offstein and Gnyawali (2004) have pointed out, few researchers have carefully...

Measuring stages of concern of management academia about information technology based education.(Report)
January 1, 2007... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Indian management education is amid major transition from its traditional classroom teaching methods to information technology-based education. Conventional classroom courses will be reshaped and restructured to a...

Clusters and Competitive Advantage: The Turkish Experience.
January 1, 2007... Ozlem Oz New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 219 ISBN-10:1403936137 Management theorists have over the years developed various strategies to aid in addressing managerial issues. In particular, strategic management literature...