Competitiveness Review: Volume 16 Issue 1

Intranets for implementing strategic initiatives

Keith Denton, Peter Richardson

Creating an effective work system entails linking executive strategy to operation objectives. Intranets can be that linking tool. Intranets have primarily been limited to…

National barriers to global competitiveness: the case of the IT industry in India

Aruna Chandra, Tim Fealey, Pradeep Rau

The IT industry, particularly IT enabled services (ITES), in India has shown remarkable growth over the past decade and continues to show resilience even in the face of a global…

Structural conditions for static and dynamic competition after deregulation

Maria Bengtsson, Agneta Marell

During the 1980’s and 1990’s deregulation had become the “recipe” for many countries’ economies to obtain increased efficiency and lower prices. Yet many empirical and theoretical…

Price‐to‐earnings multiplies and mergers and acquisition

Lianzan Xu, Francis Cai

This paper examines the assertion that the financial market pays fixed PE multiples and that the recognition of goodwill and subsequent amortization depresses earnings and stock…

Developing new business strategies in B2B markets by combining CRM concepts and online databases

R. Dale Wilson

This paper illustrates how online databases, available from commercial vendors, can be used as the foundation for developing new business strategies. Emphasis is placed on the use…

Using the theory of constraints to improve competitiveness: an airline case study

Tony Polito, Kevin Watson, Robert J. Vokurka

The aim of the discipline of Operations Management is to gain competitive advantage. Onemore recent and lesser‐known Operations Management technique that is finding greater…

Is Antidumping legislation a threat to competition? a case study of US chemical industry

Nisha Malhotra

The U.S. antidumping legislation provides protection to domestic industries that face dumped imports. Restricting imports by imposing antidumping duties protects domestic firms…

Development of the robotics industry in the United States and Japan: a comparison of competitive factors

Sung J. Shim, Arun Kumar

This study examines the roles of market demand, industry structure, and firm strategy in the development of the robotics industry in the United States and Japan, focusing on…

HIV/AIDS: a present and future threat to human capacity and global competitiveness

John D. Overby

Within the last two decades over 60 million people have been infected with HIV/AIDS. In the U.S. AIDS is the leading cause of death between the age of 25 and 44 years old. At the…

US executives’ post 9/11 perceptions of competing middle eastern nations as foreign direct investment options

Troy A. Festervand

In this study, perceptual mapping was used to identify the post 9/11 positions of ten, competing Middle Eastern nations as foreign direct investment (FDI) options. The perceived…

Multi‐state international catalog exhibitions: a South America experience

Ruth Lesher Taylor

This article is written to advance the idea that U.S. small and medium‐sized firms should have something more than a domestic presence and to help business owners to become aware…