Competitiveness Review: Volume 7 Issue 2

COMPETITION AND EVOLUTION

Malcolm Hayward

The classic case for competitiveness as a force driving change was made by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species by Natural Selection (1859). Adaptation, the ability to react…

FIRM COMPETITIVENESS AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Thomas Becker, Van Miller, Charles Crespy

The widening rift at the macro level between the proponents of economic growth and those of environmental protection may have triggered forces acting in the opposite direction at…

CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: A CASE IN NAFTA

Mahmood S. Bahaee, Herman A. Theeke

This study investigates the perceptions of Mexican and U.S. managers regarding NAFTA's implications. The results show that both groups agree on many of the issues which had shaped…

A SECTORAL ANALYSIS OF EUROPE'S INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS

Klaus Heidensohn, Edgar P. Hibbert

The aim of this paper is to throw some light on Europe's competitiveness in international trade. With the exception of Krugman, who has argued that ‘concerns about competitiveness…

STRATEGIC PLANNING IN HEALTH CARE: MERGING TWO METHODOLOGIES

Masoud Hemmasi, Lee A. Graf, Michael R. Williams

With U.S. health care costs increasing at three times the rate of inflation and Americans spending 50 percent more on health care than any other nation, health care practitioners…

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AS A DETERMINANT OF COMPETITIVENESS

Esmail Salehi‐Sangari

Information systems is an area of the business enterprise that is growing in terms of increased legitimacy. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find an organization that does…

PRIVATISATION IN PORTUGAL: AN INSIGHT INTO THE EFFECTS OF A NEW POLITICAL STRATEGY

João Nunes, Luiz Montanheiro

In recent years, Portugal has followed the example of other Western countries, first by regulating access of private initiative into a variety of economic activities starting with…