Competitiveness Review: Volume 12 Issue 1

MERCANTILIST STRATEGY, RONALD REAGAN, AND FILLING ‘THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY’: A COMMENT ON ‘HOW THE UNITED STATES USED COMPETITION TO WIN THE COLD WAR’

Leonard Hochberg

In his essay, “How the United States Used Competition to Win the Cold War,” Warren E. Norquist argues that Ronald Reagan deliberately “used competition” to undermine the communist…

HONDA: GLOBAL MANUFACTURING AND COMPETITIVENESS

Takanori Sonoda

I would like to limit my discussion to the experiences and strategies Honda has employed to evolve from our roots as a local company in Japan, with a global viewpoint — into what…

IMPROVING COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: A CUMULATIVE IMPROVEMENT APPROACH

Robert J. Vokurka, Gail M. Zank, Carl M. Lund

Supply chains can improve their performance by developing competitive priorities in a specified sequence: quality, reliability, flexibility, agility, and finally, cost efficiency…

PRESCRIPTS: CREATING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Barbro I. Anell, Timothy L. Wilson

One recurring theme in the discourse on global competition is the major shift in thinking about what constitute resources in the economy. It is assumed that the economists'…

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES, DECISION‐MAKING THEORIES, AND LEADERSHIP STYLES: AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK

Ben L. Kedia, Richard Nordtvedt, Liliana M. Pérez

International management researchers have examined the relationships between many components of strategy including mode of entry (e.g., Anderson and Gatignon, 1986; Hill, Huang…

IDENTIFYING VARIABLES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, PRIVATIZATION, AND COMPETITIVE SKILLS IN CENTRAL EUROPE: A SURVEY DESIGN

Elizabeth M. Fitzgerald

This exploratory paper identifies variables for investigating competitive skill development; variables that help to shape a firm's entrepreneurship, and the privatization process…

AN ANALYSIS OF CHINA'S COMPETITIVENES BETWEEN 1995 AND 1999

M.S.S. El‐Namaki

Competitiveness is the issue of the decade. Country competitiveness could have far reaching implications to the country's scale and scope of contribution to international trade…

LESSONS FROM MALAYSIAN TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES, 1960–99

Thamir M. Salih

Like other high performing Asian economies (HPAEs) in South East Asia, Malaysia experienced negative growth from 1997–1999. This setback in economic growth can be attributed to…

THE ETHICS OF HIRING IN THE NEW WORKPLACE: MEN AND WOMEN MANAGERS FACE CHANGING STEREOTYPES DISCOVER CORRELATIVE PATTERNS FOR SUCCESS

Beverly G. Merrick

“Which advertisement fits reality?” asked Pamela Butler, researcher into gender communication. The top ad represents selected adjectives used to describe feminine characteristics…