Competitiveness Review: Volume 2 Issue 1

COMPETING IN THE AN ERA OF DEFLATION, TECHNOLOGY CREATION AND MARKET EXPANSION

H. Alan Raymond

The Chinese sage of war, Sun Tze, emphasized knowledge of the context of battle as one of the primary factors for success. The context as he saw it was made up of knowledge of…

COMPETING WITH LARGE MULTINATIONALS: SELECTING POTENTIAL FOREIGN MARKETS

Lloyd C. Russow

Many small‐ and medium‐sized firms lack the resources to conduct adequate foreign market research. Inexperienced managers often do not know where to begin. Once the decision has…

QUALITY AND GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS

Paul E. Sultan

PART 1 Power—and sometimes even justice—flows from the muzzle of a gun. Global competitiveness does not. We are witness today of two lumbering giants, the Soviet Union and the…

PRODUCT MODIFICATION MANAGEMENT

Cliff Barbee, Robert W. Eckles

It is generally accepted that a product life cycle is typically a continuum from introduction to termination of a product. The term product could include either a product or…

STRATEGICALLY PLANNED SPIN‐OFFS: THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

Raymond A.K. Cox, Robert T. Kleinman, Anandi P. Sahu

Several academic studies have examined the investment performance of initial public offerings (IPOs). Since the underwriters desire to have the offering sell out quickly, they…

INDUSTRY FOCUS: SMITH & NEPHEW

Ron Sparks

Perhaps the best place to start is to tell you something about our business. Smith & Nephew is a British firm, founded in 1856 by a pharmacist named T.J. Smith. Mr. Smith was an…

COMPETITIVENESS: NO QUICK FIX SOLUTIONS

Abbas J. Ali, Robert C. Camp

The abatement of the Cold War and the declining threat of nuclear conflict have awakened U.S. politicians to the dangers of the U.S.'s losing its industrial base. That is not to…

The Commonwealth of Independent States Needs the Right Kind of Help

Jack Enen

It has finally happened in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Political reforms have outrun economic reforms, but when the euphoria subsides and the dust settles, the…