Competitiveness Review: Volume 13 Issue 2

THE NEW AGE OF COMPETITIVENESS

Robert L. Lattimer

The premise is that organizations that are successful in the future, will develop and implement strategies that are based on the economic realities of the roots of the entity, but…

THE DYNAMICS OF REAL OPTIONS THINKING ON COMPETITION THROUGH INNOVATION: THE CASE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

Tom De Schryver, Greet Asselbergh

Too often, when the effectiveness of an innovation policy is examined, the uncertain nature of innovations is discarded. Through a real option lens an examination of the…

BOEING VS. AIRBUS: COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE

Carl H. Tong, Lee‐Ing Tong

Boeing Company has been the world's leading producer of large commercial airplanes for several decades. However, in the late 1990s, Europe‐based Airbus Industrie competed with…

HOW TO SUCCEED IN E‐BUSINESS BY TAKING THE HAIER ROAD: FORMULATING E‐BUSINESS STRATEGY THROUGH NETWORK BUILDING

Tung‐lung Steven Chang, Peter Ping Li

Legendary Chinese firms have employed e‐business strategies to strengthen their competitive positions in China for market expansion since the late 1990s. E‐business practices have…

STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES OF BUSINESS PROCESS: LOOKING FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Aysar Philip Sussan, William C. Johnson

Global competition is forcing American Managers to rethink the way they do business. It is no longer the “big that eat the small” it is now the “fast that eat the slow”. This…

HOT IPOS AND LOCKUP EXPIRATION — AN ANOMA LY?

Bijesh Tolia, Yew Mun Yip

IPO lockup is defined as the restricted period during which certain insiders are prohibited from selling their holdings in the open market. Usually, the lead underwriter imposes…

NORTH KOREA MOVING FROM ISOLATION TO AN OPEN MARKET ECONOMY: IS IT TIME TO INVEST OR TO CONTINUE OBSERVING?

Sang T. Choe

After a half century in seclusion from the Western world, North Korea is in slow transition to an open market economy. This change presents oppor‐tunities to multinationals in…

ENHANCING CUSTOMER RESPONSIVENESS: THE IMPACT OF OPERATIONAL SEQUENCING RULES

Carlos F. Gomes, João V. Lisboa, Mahmoud M. Yasin

In today's highly competitive and customer oriented business environment, business firms in all sectors are looking for ways to improve customer satisfaction. In this context…