Competitiveness Review: Volume 5 Issue 1

ANTITRUST LEGISLATION: A TIME FOR REFLECTION, REVIEW, AND REVISION

Michael G. Harvey, Robert F. Lusch, Branko Cavarkapa

Antitrust legislation in the United States was originally enacted in 1890. This legislation and subsequent amendments established the historic precedent of government controlling…

THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL PATENT HARMONIZATION ON GLOBAL COMPETITION

David Silverstein

Recent efforts by Western, developed countries, particularly the United States, to achieve “harmonization” of global intellectual property (IP) laws predominantly along Western…

COMPETITIVENESS OF PRODUCT, FIRM, INDUSTRY, AND NATION IN A GLOBAL BUSINESS

H. Chang Moon, Newman S. Peery

Competitiveness is often confused with productivity. Productivity refers to the internal capability of an organization, while competitiveness refers to the relative position of an…

SERVICE JOINT VENTURES AS STRATEGIC TRADE ALLIANCES

Erdener Kaynak, Ali Kara, Syed Akmal Hyder

International alliances are becoming an increasingly important and recognized means of conducting business. Once viewed primarily as a strategy to enter foreign markets, alliances…

PLOTTING COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES FOR DETROIT

Howard W. Combs, Carl H. Tong

The auto industry plays a vitally important role in the U.S. economy. Automotive products account for an estimated sixteen percent of all durable goods shipments in the U.S. and…

DOING BUSINESS IN CENTRAL EUROPE: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS IN THE 1990s

Marios I. Katsioloudes, Phillip W. Balsmeier

The three Central European countries (CE‐3), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, are gradually opening for direct investment. The opportunities are there for the U.S. investors…

STRATEGIC MARKET PLANNING IN A CHANGING GLOBAL MARKET—CHINESE ECONOMIC AREA AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES

Monle Lee, Jack Ruhe

Today's marketplace can best be characterized as dramatic and uncertain. This situation dictates that multinational corporations (MNCs) design strategies and policies that enable…