Competitiveness Review: Volume 15 Issue 1

Strategic knowledge management research: tracing the co‐evolution of strategic management and knowledge management perspectives

Bo Bernard Nielsen

This article traces the evolution of strategic management and knowledge management research during the past four decades with particular emphasis on the role of knowledge in…

Firm performance and the strategic fit of manufacturing technology

Steven W. Congden

Scholars have widely asserted that a firm’s manufacturing technologies must be aligned with its competitive strategy. This study tests the existence of such a strategy‐technology…

Corporate restructuring, performance and competitiveness: an empirical examination

Jianwen Liao

This study investigates the effects of corporate restructuring – scale and scope, on the financial performance and long‐term competitiveness during the 1980s in a data set of 107…

Managerial implications of target costing

Marilyn M. Helms, Lawrence P. Ettkin, Joe T. Baxter, Matthew W. Gordon

The target costing method works “backward” from traditional cost‐plus methods and begins with a targeted sales price for a product. This price is set based on what the customer is…

Import market potential, import market competitiveness and add/drop foreign market decisions of US exporters of sewing machines

Nicholas C. Williamson, Grace Kissling, Nancy Cassill, Dmitriy Odinokov

Two hypotheses concerning two variables that potentially influence the “add/drop” foreignmarket decisions of U.S. exporters of sewing machines are developed and empirically…

New paradigm – IMC – under fire

Philip J. Kitchen

The most marked example of progress in marketing communications is the emergence of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC). Many organizations now consider IMC to be a key…