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Andrews Tackles Global Technical Communication.(Book Review)
Technical Communication in the Global Community Deborah C. Andrews. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice- Hall, Inc., 1998. xvii+588 pp., appendices, references, index. ISBN 0-13-103060-4. Global . . .

Using principles of just-in-time to improve new product development process.
ABSTRACT Quick new product design and development is crucial for companies to be competitive in a global market. This article shows that the principles of just-in-time (JIT) in manufacturing can . . .

Competitive intelligence, corporate security and the virtual organization.
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to document a variety of competitive intelligence (CI) vulnerabilities which (1) are common to most organizations; and (2) have a unique and adverse effect on virtual . . .

Global governance: take me to your leader.
ABSTRACT Business globalization is about doing business globally. This apparent tautology underscores a very basic corporate misconception--that domestic and international markets are so . . .

Competitive success in an age of alliance capitalism: how do firm-specific factors affect behavior in strategic alliances?
ABSTRACT This paper suggests that alliances may not necessarily be the first cut strategy for all firms. It explores the theoretical proposition that while partnerships can be beneficial, some . . .

Human resource information systems: a review and model development.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a human resource information systems (HRIS) model with a primary objective: To provide a comprehensive framework that advances HRIS research (Kuhn, 1996). This model . . .

Successfully competing in the deregulated trucking industry: a resource-based perspective.
ABSTRACT This paper uses the resource-based view of the firm to explain how firms grow in a deregulated environment. The study demonstrates that firms must utilize a specific sequencing of both . . .

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation.(Supply Chains to Virtual Integration)
Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation Sunil Chopra, and Peter Meindl. NY: Prentice Hall, 2001. Supply Chains to Virtual Integration Ram Reddy and Sabine Reddy. NY: McGraw . . .

Global IT/IS outsourcing: expectations, considerations and implications.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the issues of global IT/IS outsourcing from four interrelated aspects: forming an appropriate global IT strategy, using proper global IT platforms, managing . . .

Global anxiety: militarization or integration of the world economy?
Amid the gloom of current world affairs, there are hopeful signs and promising opportunities that stand out, by which the current state can be withstood. On May 24, 2002, the U.S. and Russia signed . . .

Communicating information technology: Having the Right Stuff.(Book Review)
Technical Communication (5th Edition) Rebecca E. Burnett. Orlando: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001. xx+736pp., User hand book, Index ISBN 0-15-506448-7 The ability to communicate . . .

China or NAFTA: the world's largest market in the 21st century?
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the economic role of these two countries: Will the Chinese economy, as many suggest, continue its strong economic advance under its system of "undemocratic . . .

Understanding strategy: why is strategy so difficult?
"Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean that everything is very easy. " --Clausewitz (1976: 178) As academics, our first responsibility is to teach strategy to students . . .

An empirical study of the desirability and challenges of implementing transnational marketing strategies.
ABSTRACT The integration-responsiveness (I-R) framework was employed to study the relationship among the alternate international marketing strategies (multidomestic, multifocal, global, . . .

The language of national insecurity: prediction, strategy, and geopolitics.
ABSTRACT Credible predictions (in the sense of forecasting future events) are notoriously difficult to achieve in human affairs. Predictions, once made public, invite counter maneuvers by . . .

Knowledge-sharing in value-chain networks: certifying collaborators for effective protection processes.
INTRODUCTION Three major trends have come together at the start of the new millennium, raising the stakes for firms seeking to compete in the new economy. Initially, knowledge management (KM, . . .

Integrated corporate and product brand communication (1).
INTRODUCTION Today, integrated communication needs to be viewed from a global perspective. Given the speed, span and reach of electronic communication, there are technically no local or national . . .

Making globalization globally advantageous.
One of the most polarizing debates in the world today concerns the effects of globalization. Some of the principle reasons for this is that: a) most people are locked into preconceived notions . . .

The labor productivity competitiveness of U.S. versus foreign commercial banks.
ABSTRACT The productivity of labor, measured as the ratio of employees to total assets, has since the 1970s been a common measure of bank performance. Using what this article argues is a better . . .

How the United States used competition to win the Cold War.
ABSTRACT This paper looks at the end of the Cold War as the end of a monumental competition. Until 1981, the United States competed mainly on its own side of the playing field. It was a good . . .

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