Competitiveness Review: Volume 3 Issue 1

THE INCOMPETENT CROWD

Abbas J. Ali

In a recent interview in the Harvard Business Review. Peter Drucker argues that the best criteria for evaluating employees in Post‐Capitalism is competency. Self‐knowledge…

THE CHANGING ROLE OF MIDDLE MANAGERS IN THE STRATEGY PROCESS

T.K. Das, Manab Thakur

The traditional role of middle managers has been evolving into one which is increasingly concerned with participation in the strategic management process. The reasons for this…

OUTSIDE BASED STRATEGIC PLANNING AND SMALL FIRMS' PERFORMANCE

Mahmood Bahaee

There is a general agreement in the strategic planning literature that some small firms, due to their lack of adequate in‐house resources, often rely on outside‐based assistance…

COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP

Abbas J. Ali, Robert C. Camp

With the end of the cold war two major developments in the world have taken place. First, regional trade pacts and alliances have taken on added value as a mechanism for economic…

DEVELOPING INFORMATION SYSTEMS OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Ernest A. Capozzoli, John C. Malley, Phillip W. Balsmeier

The literature is replete with normative models of system development methodologies. While these methodologies may be sound and workable in the United States, they may not be…

A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF SELF‐DIRECTED LEARNING READINESS IN CHINA, HONG KONG AND THE UNITED STATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL COMPETITION

Paul J. Guglielmino, Shuming Zhao

This paper examines the relationship of learning style and job performance in a sample of the workforce collected from a Commodity Driven Society (CDS), the PRC, and compares and…

ON TEACHING MARKETING COMPETITIVENESS

Ruth Lesher Taylor

Competitive issues are comprehensive and global. Global competitiveness has driven U.S. technological competitiveness from being globally strong to globally losing or maybe lost…

MEXICO! WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS

Jack Enen

They never stop! House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt joined by the newly elected in congress continue their opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement. When are these…