Global Competitive Advantage : Concepts, Approaches and Perspectives : Macro Foundations of Global Competitive Advantage (2 Vols-Set) Book
Contents: Vol. I. 1. Introduction: mapping global competitive advantage/Navneet Sharma and B.P. Bhatnagar. 2. Comparative advantage and competitive advantage: an economic perspective and a synthesis/Satya Dev Gupta. 3. Challenge of competitiveness in lagging regions/Justin Yifu Lin and Mingxing Liu. 4. Margins as centers: probing the improbable/Gajendra Kumar. 5. Changing contours of global competitive advantage: knowledge economy and management approach/Renaldas Gudauskas. 6. Demystifying outsourcing: the numbers do not support the hype over job losses/Mary Amiti and Shang-Jin Wei. 7. Outsourcing or insourcing?/Nilakantan Nagarajan. 8. Foreign direct investment and economic transition: panacea or pain killer?/Camilla Jensen. 9. Hic Rhodus Hic Salta: human capital and competitiveness in small LDCs/Shweta Sharma. 10. Globalization and outsourcing: a perspective on its impact on India/Surendra K. Kaushik and Shyam S. Lodha. 11. Leveraging the competitiveness of Eritrean agriculture: a case study on Elabered estate/Ravinder Rena. 12. The role of governance in improving global competitiveness/Chavali L. Kiran. 13. Agony in the antipodes: the generic drug provisions of the Australia-US free trade Agreement/Kevin Outterson. 14. Attracting outsourcing: a cross-country qualitative analysis of the determinants and suggestions for India/K.K. Saxena and Ruchi Sharma. 15. Trade liberalization and competitive advantage/Murali Neettukattil. 16. Impact of technology on global competitive advantage/Nageshwar Rao and Madhvi Sethi. 17. Outsourcing: theory and issues/S.L. Bapna. 18. Gelling with the BPO gamble/Bala Krishnamorthy and Sumi Jha. 19. The theory of creative global competitive advantages/Mahesh V. Joshi. 20. Globalisation in Lieu of competitive advantage/Selvarasu, A. and Nageswara Rao, S.B. 21. Outsourcing as a business activity has existed since time immemorial/Anil Sethi. 22. Comparison of clusters in software industry: a case of India and Israel/Vinnie Jauhari.
Vol. II. 23. Competitiveness and corruption in foreign markets: suggested strategies for multinational enterprises/Abdalla Hagen, Shyam Lodha, and Shahid Siddiqi. 24. Contributions of automotive multinational companies to the local productive arrangements formation: a study in companies from the ABC region, Sao Paulo State, Brazil/Marco Antonio Pinheiro da Silveira, Ronaldo Zwicker and Rene Henrique Gotz Licht. 25. Corporate governance, firm competitiveness and CEO and Board turnover: evidence from India/Arijit Ghosh. 26. The determinants of competitive advantage of Brazilian exporting firms/Jorge Saba Arbache and Joao Alberto De Negri. 27. Hybrid sourcing: a new paradigm?/Tapati Bandopadhyay, Ashish Mitra and Pradeep Kumar. 28. A framework for gaining competitive advantage through IS outsourcing/B. Sashikala and Tapas Mahapatra. 29. Tough times in outsourcing ahead: a word of caution for India/Gurmeet Singh and Rakesh Belwal. 30. Critical views on outsourcing trends in Indian Public Sector Banks/Manas Ranjan Patra and Mahil Carr. 31. Mentoring programs and jobs: a contingency approach/Evan H. Offstein, Jason M. Morwick and Amit J. Shah. 32. Cognitive mapping and psychology of competitiveness/Vijaya Laxmi Chouhan, Archana Golwalkar and Jaydeep Chouhan. 33. Ethical issues in business and marketing/J.S. Panwar. 34. Globalisation, reforms and performance of banking IPOs in India/Saurabh Ghosh. 35. Competitive advantage in Indian banking/Yogesh Maheshwari. 36. Re-engineering operations in banking products/A.A. Ananth, M. Sivasubramanian and A. Rajamohan. 37. Global competitiveness through the quality way: JK Tyre experience/R. Mukhopadhyay. 38. HR strategies and competitiveness: a case of Indian small and medium sized tourism enterprises/Mohinder Chand. 39. Employee Involvement and Empowerment Practice (EIEPP) of Powergrid: gaining competitive advantage/Kunal Kirti. 40. Human resources in the era of globalization: challenges and strategies/Naveen Gupta, C.K. Singh and Anju Jain. 41. Crouching tiger, beware India: a case study of South Korean IT industry/G.S. Rawat and Bhavesh Prakash Joshi. 42. Making sense of an integrating world/Soma Arora.
"These volumes are about the changing contours of global competitive advantage. In its short life WTO has altered many established notions of competitive advantage. Alongside there has been emergence of certain economies notably China and India. The phenomenon of ‘Emerging Economy’ has been termed as the biggest change after industrial revolution. And is all set to add new theories and models in the domain of competitive advantage.
Such a vigorous economic integration has left the countries more dependent on each other. Hence, the established frameworks and theories need a revisit. This task has been achieved by the papers contributed by noted theorists, academics and policy makers. In an unusual combination, they come together to construct these volumes and offer one of the most significant contributions of our time. Through a very wide and deep coverage, experts from each part of the world have opined on cross-cutting themes in the domain of global competitive advantage.
These volumes attempt to capture the changing competitiveness of countries, regions and companies. The first volume maps the changes at macro level and includes papers on fundamentals of competitive advantage, sectoral alterations of competitive advantage at country level. The papers pay attention to the changing patterns of trade and subsequent impacts on countries and industry sectors. Macro foundations of global competitive advantage offers coverage to developed as well as developing economies. Papers covering least developed economies should interest, researchers of development management.
The second volume covers the micro foundations of competitive advantage. Papers included in the second volume pay attention to the company structures and strategies in lieu of the global economic changes. The landscape of competition has welcomed new variables. There has been a significant impact of information technology on company strategies. This is covered in a major way. Papers on financial and banking sector map the undercurrents of companies in these areas. Special issues like corruption, ethics etc also figure up in the coverage.
A special cross-cutting theme has been information technology. Readers would be delighted to have a sizeable coverage to this domain. Noted scholars have added real value to debate through paper on outsourcing and company strategies.
These volumes will lead to better understanding of competition, competitiveness and associated forces." (jacket)