Competitiveness Review: Volume 6 Issue 1

CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: GOOD WORKS NOT GOOD WORDS

Anita Roddick

I have only a limited time to begin a process of glasnost—a process of free trade in ideas—so I will be blunt. There is growing global acceptance of one of the economic…

PARADIGMS OF COMPETITIVENESS

R. Wayne Pace, Eric G. Stephan

One of the primary goals of organizations in a free enterprise system is to be competitive. Although the measures of competitiveness may appear different for manufacturing and…

BIG EMERGING MARKETS AND U.S. TRADE

Linda M. Aguilar, Michael A. Singer

United States history is steeped in trade and trade debate, from the pivotal role of the Boston Tea Party in shaping the United States as a nation to the recent debate over the…

THE FORGOTTEN ISSUE IN TRADE TALKS

Robert W. McGee

Nearly every discussion involving trade takes a utilitarian approach. If free trade is good, it is good because the vast majority benefit, or because it is more efficient than…

SEGMENTING CONSUMER MARKETS IN THE U.S. AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES BY THE USE OF POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY

Val Larsen, Newell Wright, James Busbin

American business enterprise is increasingly seeking export markets for products as a means of expansion, and in some instances to offset loss in domestic business due to…

MANAGING INTERNAL CONSISTENCY IN TECHNOLOGY INTENSIVE DESIGN PROJECTS

Moshe Cohen, Robert A. Regan

In this paper, we develop a framework to analyze and compare the way in which two technology intensive design projects internally coordinate to maintain the internal consistency…

REGIONAL INTEGRATION AGREEMENTS AND THE BORDERLESS MARKET: LESSONS FROM HISTORY

Robert D. Winsor, Gary Sibeck, Raymond Rody

This paper examines the phenomenon of market consolidation and integration, where competitors in localized, isolated markets are forced to compete with numerous new rivals in a…

IMPROVING MANUFACTURING COMPETITIVENESS: A CASE STUDY

Robert J. Vokurka, Robert A. Davis

In the mid‐1980s, obituaries were being written for manufacturing firms in the United States. Foreign competitors, particularly those in Japan and West Germany, had productivity…