Showing papers on "Competitive advantage published in 1979"

Managing Cultural Differences

Abstract: The world of business for all organizations in the twenty-first century is global, interdependent, complex, and rapidly changing. That means sophisticated global leadership skills are required more than ever today. Individual and organizational success is no longer dependent solely on business acumen. Our ability to understand, communicate, and manage across borders, countries, and cultures has never been as important as it is now. The understanding and utilization of cultural differences as a business resource is a key building block as companies rely on their global reach to achieve the best profit and performance. For this reason, international business and cross-cultural management are key topics in undergraduate business, MBA, and executive education programs worldwide as companies and institutions prepare current and future business leaders for the global marketplace. This exciting new edition of the highly successful textbook, Managing Cultural Differences, seeks to guide students and any person with global responsibilities to understand how culture fits in a changing business world, how to gain a competitive advantage from effective cross-cultural management, and gives practical advice for doing business across the globe. With updated content, new case studies, and a new author team, Managing Cultural Differences is required course reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and MBA students alike, as well as being of significant value for anyone who sells, purchases, travels, or works internationally.

New venture strategies

Abstract: 1. Perspectives on Entrepreneurship. 2. Success and Failure Factors. 3. Career Departure Points. 4. Sequences in Startup. 5. Sources of Venture Ideas. 6. Evaluating Venture Ideas. 7. Main Competitive Entry Wedges. 8. Other Entry Wedges. 9. Acquisition Finding. 10. Acquisition Dealing. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

Competitive Strategy and Performance of Firms in the U.S TV Set Industry: 1950-1960.

Abstract: This is an empirical study of patterns of success and failure in the TV Set industry for the period 1950-60. Using as a backdrop a conceptual model of competitive strategy in the industry developed...

Producing Fresh Winter Vegetables in Florida and Mexico, Costs and Competition

Abstract: Mexico and Florida supply most of the fresh winter vegetables for the U.S. market. Florida's share of the market declined between 1968 and 1978, but recovered partially from 1973 through 1976. Florida tomato growers enjoy a net competitive advantage over Mexican growers. Mexican growers have a net advantage in producing and marketing green peppers and cucumbers. Any advantage in eggplant production is unclear. Florida may continue to strengthen its general competitive position because Mexico's higher internal rate of inflation keeps pushing up its production costs faster.

When 'min' means more.

Abstract: Firms progressively search for new technologies and methods to develop sustainable competitive advantage. This article is aimed to investigate the pros and cons of integrating human RFID chip implants and Artificial Intelligence in the new digital global environment. The paper focuses on the new digital communication and machine culture, which rises between human and machine. It represents the unlimited industrial possibilities and potential of Artificial Intelligence. It also assesses the future risk that the world of human work being run by artificial management and the social impact to the public. In the past one hundred years, there were more global changes than in the previous one thousand years.

The New International Price Competition

Abstract: Considers the problem of meeting the challenge of those less‐developed countries entering the market with industrial products formerly only manufactured in more advanced countries. Argues that this challenge can best be met by non‐price competition i.e. superior product development.

Research and Development Expenditures as a Competitive Strategy

Abstract: Making a better mousetrap has been one of the standard methods of achieving competitive advantages in American industries. Of course, making an equally good mousetrap with lower costs can be just as effective. To the extent that businesses compete with each other with product and process improvements, then one would expect investment in these activities (research and development [RD that is, essentially asking if market structure is really exogenous, is often not directly addressed in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to survey one portion of the so-called market structure literature, viz., the empirical literature dealing with the relation between market structure and the level of research and development activity. Weiss (1969) has surveyed the empirical literature in the entire field of industrial organization, and Kamien and Schwartz (1975) more recently surveyed the literature concerning innovative activity in general. In order to allow for an intensive examination of one body of literature, the scope of this paper has been kept narrow. Readers interested in other issues, for example, the rate of adoption or imitation and the diffusion of technological information, are referred to these other studies.