Competitiveness Review: Volume 20 Issue 4

Canada's global and business competitiveness: competition policy reform in a changing world

Moses N. Kiggundu, Aareni Uruthirapathy

Exploration of the policy reforms necessary to strengthen Canada's competitiveness among world trading economies. The paper aims to compare Canada's competitiveness with two…

A framework of total value orientation for strategic outsourcing decisions

Parimal Bhagat, Framarz Byramjee, Vincent Taiani

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive framework of strategic value encompassing several critical dimensions of value creation/delivery process amidst transactions between…

Empirical investigation on the magnitude of job offshoring from an organizational contingency perspective: Implications for the American work force

Yong Jian Wang, Kevin W. Cruthirds, Miguel A. Baeza

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between the magnitude of job offshoring and organizational contingencies, including total number of employees…

Banking in Kuwait: a customer satisfaction case study

Abdulla M. Alhemoud

The purpose of this paper is to investigate bank customers' attitudes toward various bank services.

The Dutch disease syndrome in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria: a comparative study

Gretta Saab, Maya Ayoub

This research paper aims to examine the Dutch disease syndrome in the more diversified economies of the Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia (ESCWA).

Concentration of power: a peril to corporate integrity

Abbas J. Ali