Recently added articles from Competition Forum:
Impact on China's Economic Policy of Statistics Revision of National Economy
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper examines China's economic statistics revision in 2004, subsequent economic profile of the nation, and analyzes the impact of the statistics revision on the national economic policy, including macro economic policy, economic structural adjustment, interest ...
Globalization Challenges in the Middle East: Religious Fundamentalism
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper examines the impact of terrorism on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Middle East. While our survey of literature found weak support for the argument that terrorism reduces FDI, we argue that FDI can play an important role in reducing terrorism. We offer ...
Challenges Facing Muslim Women - Adapting To a Globalized World
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMERY Numerous messages of cross-cultural cooperation are shaping the global image of Muslim women worldwide - reaching communities with roots in hundreds of nations. Whether it is from the bedouins to the boardrooms, furthering knowledge of the world requires nations to know ...
Competitive Intelligence in Business Decisions - An Overview
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The key to competitive intelligence is the process of turning raw data into valuable information, turning that valuable information into strategy, and turning strategy into actionable items, thereby improving business performance and operations by maintaining an ...
Establishing a Regional Comparative Advantage: Business Location Decisions in Semi-rural Areas
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The desirability of having firms locate in a specific area is a pervasive consideration in economic development. Results here indicate that location of industrial (i.e., non-retail and non-construction) businesses in semi-rural areas comes from two streams that can be ...
Using the Internet for News and Perceptions of News Organization Bias
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMERY As more news consumers throughout the world have access to the Internet, profound changes are occurring in the way people receive their news. Technologies such as the Internet offer the user a competitive alternative to traditional mass media. Lacking the rigid ...
Spinoffs and Carveouts: Some Factors Leading to Successful Divestiture
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper tests the anecdotal literature related to the reasons that lead to a successful outcome (by reducing failure rate) of corporate divestitures, specifically, spinoffs, carveouts, and carveouts-to-spinoffs. Four variables were tested: 1.) focus industry ...
Before And After 2000: Revenue and High Tech Valuation
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study examines the concerns that high-tech, especially Internet dot com companies, employ aggressive revenue recognition practices to boost stock prices. The authors hypothesize that revenue is more value relevant than other key performance measures traditional ...
Beyond Gender: A Logistic Ordinal Regression Model for Earnings Differences
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY How important is gender in predicting an individual's personal earnings? The hotly-debated "gender gap" suggests that women do not earn as much as men for equal work. This work develops two multiple logistic ordinal regression models that measure the effect of job and ...
Emotional Intelligence, Trust and Job Satisfaction
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Through use of survey methodologies and multiple regression techniques, the current study seeks to document relationships between employee trust, emotional intelligence and job satisfaction. The study reports evidence of positive relationships between major variables of ...
Executive Compensation: The Case of General Electric
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Executive compensation has become a growing concern of society, especially the stockholders of various companies. This study investigates the need for strategic compensation planning within an organization, in order to align the motives of executives with the overall ...
Structural Equation Modeling for Evaluating Employee Satisfaction
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study profiles the attitudes and perceptions of a rural school district by its employees including the relationships, roles, and contributions that employees and culture play in the development of job satisfaction. Drawing on a sample of two longitudinal sets of ...
Employee Reactions to Outsourcing: Development of the Attitudes toward Outsourcing (ATO) Scale
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With the growing importance of business process outsourcing in the increasingly globally competitive world, attitude of strategic constituents toward the phenomenon merits attention. This study represents a first step toward construction of a self-report attitude scale ....
Mediation and its Merits as an Alternative Method of Employer-Employee Dispute Resolution
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Workplace disputes, whether domestic or international, can be resolved peacefully and effectively by the use of mediation, a method that is growing in importance and popularity. Its many benefits include the cost-effectiveness of the process, both in execution costs and ...
Glass Ceiling: Role of Women in the Corporate World
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Twenty years ago, the term "glass ceiling" was coined by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women and minorities from reaching the top of the corporate hierarchy. Several studies, both academic and governmental, have shown that ...
The Reality of Virtual Teams
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In today's market, global virtual teams are not the exception but the rule as companies expand into the global market. Executives are constantly pressured to get their products and services to worldwide markets and to help they are turning to the best people regardless ...
Management by Emotion (MBE)
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Leadership is a multi-billion dollar global industry. Therefore, the world's leading companies that compete in today's global economy need to have effective leaders to develop a vision and innovative decisions. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being ...
In Pursuit of a Common Understanding of Leadership: A Case Study of Business School Faculty and Practitioner Stakeholders
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Business schools are increasingly being challenged to prepare their students to be leaders - leaders who can effectively meet the demands of the dynamic and global business world. It is therefore tempting for business schools to try to develop a common understanding ...
U.S.-Canada Lumber Trade Dispute - Analysis and Projection
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States and Canada have had a long lasting trade dispute over Canada's exports of softwood lumber. U.S. lumber industry claims that Canada's exports are subsidized, and has successfully petitioned the U.S. Government to impose countervailing and antidumping ...
Assessing Shifts in Canada's Competitive Exposure in its Home Markets: How Much Does China Matter?
Jan 01, 2006; ... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Using the Market Overlap Measure statistic of Sawchuk and Yerger (2006), this research measures more precisely than has any prior research changes the past several years in the relative importance of Canada as a supplier for its home markets, and the rising importance ...