Competitiveness Review: Volume 13 Issue 1

FROM ECONOMY TO MILITARIZATION: THE END OF THE NATION STATE

Abbas J. Ali

Recently, Foreign Policy and the Center for Global Development published the Commitment to Development Index (CDI). The Index ranked 21 rich nations on whether their aid, trade…

“THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE” — LEADERSHIP'S ROLE IN CREATING BEHAVIORAL READINESS FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Stanley J. Smits, Niveen Ezzat Ally

Even highly competitive, successful organizations face crisis, defined as “a low‐probability, high‐impact event that threatens the viability of the organization and is…

JAPANESE MANAGERS: THEIR CANDID VIEWS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Marilyn M. Helms

With the growing financial crisis and collapse of the bubble economy of Japan, small, innovative, companies can offer the catalyst the economy needs. Yet the traditional culture…

THE USE OF AN ONLINE COMMERCIAL DATABASE AS A SOURCE OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE FOR DEVELOPING MARKETING STRATEGIES AND TACTICS

R. Dale Wilson

The availability of online databases provides corporate executives with a valuable set of resources for the development of marketing strategies and tactics. This paper provides an…

VERTICAL INTEGRATION: STRATEGIC CHARACTERISTICS AND COMPETITIVE IMPLICATIONS

Richard T. Mpoyi

The purpose of the paper is to identify the main characteristics of vertical integration strategies and discuss the effects of those characteristics on companies' ability to…

THE REFINEMENT OF MEASURING CONSUMER INVOLVEMENT — AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Tsuen‐Ho Hsu, Monle Lee

In order to understand why consumers choose certain products over others, marketers study consumer behavior. This concept of involvement is significant in understanding and…

ETHICS AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS: AN UPDATED COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVE

Richard Alan Nelson

The use of persuasive mass communication techniques by public relations and advertising practitioners, rather than abating in influence as early theorists hoped because of more…