Recently added articles from Advances in Competitiveness Research:
The tyrant executive.
Jan 01, 2008; ... In order to situate themselves on the power stage, tyrants do not hesitate to use whatever means are available to optimally serve their own interests. Whether they appear in the business or political arena, tyrants share three primary characteristics: a feeling of indispensability and self ...
The state of U.S. international competitiveness: a study of the impact of trade performance indicators.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study examines the conclusions regarding the state of international competitiveness for the United States based on Its trade performance internationally. We examine the relationship between trade performance and international competitiveness, and the ...
Creating competitive advantage through intangible assets: the direct and indirect effects of corporate culture and reputation.
Jan 01, 2008; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Corporate culture and reputation are intangible assets firms use to create a competitive strategic advantage to differentiate themselves from other firms to enhance firm performance. Numerous articles cite how corporate culture may be an important intangible ...
An evaluation of the competitiveness of the agribusiness sector in South Africa.
Jan 01, 2008; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The objective of this paper is to conduct a comprehensive analysis on the competitiveness of the agribusiness sector in South Africa. Three instruments emerged from this viz the AGRIBUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS STATUS (ACS) index; the AGRIBUSINESS EXECUTIVE SURVEY ...
Re-engineering operational practices and processes to improve the customer focus of a marketing organization.(Company overview)
Jan 01, 2008; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The objective of this field study is to examine the applicability and potential advantages of pull operational practices in a mid-size manufacturing organization. The results derived based on this field study point to both operational gains and customer-related ...
Integrated benchmarking performance measures.(Survey)
Jan 01, 2008; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The focus of this article is to show how a thorough understanding of organizational strategy and deployment of the strategy into consistent functional strategies is critical for improving the effectiveness of a benchmarking process. The article examines the ...
A curvilinear relationship between control and strategy: sharing of control in a multinational network.(Survey)
Jan 01, 2008; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY There has been a great deal of interest by researchers in understanding the issue of control of subsidiaries in a multinational network. The debate has been between using high control or centralization versus low control or decentralization when examining the ...
Supply chain transformation by ERP for enhancing performance: an empirical investigation.
Jan 01, 2008; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper addresses the implication of transforming supply chain by implementing ERP to enhance corporate performance. The research methodology uses a case study approach employing a fact-based principle that combines quantitative and qualitative methods. A ...
In search of a general model of unemployment.
Jan 01, 2008; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study has identified macroeconomic variables with combined significant effects on unemployment movements, and explained the nature of these movements as an aid to policy makers and economists in the forecasting process. A step-wise multiple regression ...
Corporate citizenship and sustainable development.
Jan 01, 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 overwhelmingly espouse the idea that the role of ...
Executive discretion as a driver of firm competitiveness.
Jan 01, 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 account for organizational, ...
Strategic planning-firm performance linkage: empirical investigation from an emergent market perspective.
Jan 01, 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 behavioral indicators of firm performance, ...
The application of the contingency it deployment strategy: evidence from the Middle East.
Jan 01, 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 in Jordanian firms. It is dedicated to ...
Building entrepreneurial e-commerce competitive advantage: a blending of theory and practice.(Company overview)
Jan 01, 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 entrepreneur is left searching for ways to ...
Project-based international business strategies: the case of the international construction services industry.(Company overview)
Jan 01, 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 ICS firms develop appropriate strategic ...
The role of book value in high-tech valuation.
Jan 01, 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 anomalous relationship. Test results ...
A transaction cost analysis of restructuring alternatives.
Jan 01, 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 layoff depends on the underlying ...
A leadership development model to improve organizational competitiveness.
Jan 01, 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 and exclusively examined human factors ...
Measuring stages of concern of management academia about information technology based education.(Report)
Jan 01, 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 computer based format. According to the ...
Clusters and Competitive Advantage: The Turkish Experience.
Jan 01, 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 contains a good measure of ...