Competitiveness Review: Volume 8 Issue 1

Microsoft and the Justice Department: Can We Trust Market Forces?

Abbas J. Ali

A recent uproar in the high tech industry, stemming from an allegation initially raised by Sun and Netscape, is that Microsoft is attempting to expand its market power by bundling…

INTRODUCTION: by Robert Lawless

Robert Lawless

I don't know how much you know about Herb Kelleher. He's an extraordinary individual. He was a college athlete and scholar at Wesley, then he went to NYU School of Law. He then…

THE FUTURE COMPETITIVENESS OF AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN ENTERPRISES

Ørstrøm Møller

The nation states have dominated international political and economic architecture for the past 200 years. They led to national seclusion: National products, national markets…

FROM NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS TO BLOC AND GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS

Dong‐Sung Cho

This paper has two objectives. First, it attempts to prove that the level of competitiveness can be measured for any entities with different domains—product, firm, industry…

THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY IN THE 21st CENTURY: A GLOBAL ANALYSIS USING MICHAEL PORTER'S INDUSTRY RELATED CLUSTERS

Larry Bridwell, Marc Richard

The semiconductor industry has attracted considerable attention during the last twenty years as a major high stakes business battlefield between American corporations and Japanese…

JUST‐IN‐TIME SUPPLY: COOPERATION, COMPETITION, AND ABUSE

Sylvain Landry, Yves Trudel, Mattio O. Diorio

Words like “marriage,” “mutual trust” and “partnership” are often used to describe buyer‐supplier relationships in a Just‐in‐Time environment. Using a transaction cost economics…

VIEWING STRATEGIC INNOVATION THROUGH THE LOGIC OF CONTRADICTION

Linda P. Livingstone, Leslie E. Palich, Gary R. Carini

We present major aspects of two change‐oriented paradigms — formal logic and the logic of contradiction. For the Western manager, we assert that knowledge of the latter will…

PRIVATE ROADS, COMPETITION, AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE AND PRICE CONTROLS

Walter Block

In the view of most economists, highways and streets are “public goods,” not amenable to ordinary market competition. The present papers argues, to the contrary, that these…