Competitiveness Review: Volume 14 Issue 1/2

COMPETITIVENESS OF POLISH FIRMS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION ENLARGEMENT

Marian Gorynia

The paper has two aims. The first one is to present a three‐dimensional concept of competitiveness of an enterprise. The concept of firm competitiveness discussed in the paper…

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING AND THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: THE EASE OF INTEGRATING INFORMATION BETWEEN CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FACTORIES IN MEXICO

Kathleen M. Utecht, Randall B. Hayes, Patrick A. Okonkwo

The current interest in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software systems is based primarily on the principle of the system: generating real time data, enabling linkages across…

HOW LOCAL COMPETITION FOR ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AFFECTS NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS

John P. Blair

There are numerous reasons that may explain why the U.S. economy has performed well during the past twenty‐five years. One likely reason is that local economic development…

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AS A COMPETITIVE PRESCRIPT: 88 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AT BOEING

Timothy L. Wilson, Barbro I. Anell

A concept of “prescripts” has been developed for those firms that apparently have shown an ability to extract, codify, and package knowledge in a manner that can be used both by…

CUSTOMER‐FOCUSED PERFORMANCE AND ITS KEY RESOURCE‐BASED DETERMINANTS: AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK

Yonggui Wang, Hing‐Po Lo

Unlike previous studies which emphasize market oriented performance from the perspective of firms or customers, but mainly internally, the paper proposes that firms should…

MANUFACTURING CAPACITY, MARKET SHARE, AND COMPETITIVENESS

James M. Bloodgood, Jeffrey P. Katz

This article examines the relationship between production capacity and the ongoing battle for market share. Many firms use market share as a performance indicator to measure how…

ENABLING A TQM STRUCTURE THROUGH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Naceur Jabnoun, Sofiane Sahraoui

Organization structure has been rather ignored by TQM Gurus. It is not even clear whether a TQM organization is centralized or not. Many companies superimpose their TQM programs…

PURSUING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: ASSISTANCE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

Ruth Lesher Taylor

Trade barriers between countries, especially cash‐strapped countries, are being revised and/or dropped as a means of promoting international trade. Even the U.S. is aggressively…

A DISCUSSION OF CURRENT AND POTENTIAL ISSUES RELATING INFORMATION SECURITY FOR INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS

Jagannathan V. Iyengar

Information security is about protecting three things: the confidentiality, the integrity, and the availability of data. Securing Internet Commerce is probably the biggest…

LEGAL ASPECTS OF E‐COMMERCE PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

János T. Füstös, Larry M. López

The new millennium has arrived with fundamental changes in our daily lives. The extensive use of modern technology has influence on almost everything at work, in school, at home…

TOWARDS A THEORY OF SPIRITUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE

A. Amin Mohamed, Joette Wisnieski, Askar, Syed

In spite of the importance of spirituality and the attention given to it by the media, research on the impact of spirituality in the workplace has been lacking. This paper…