Book Review:The Fight for Competitive Advantage: A Study of the United States Domestic Trunk Air Carriers. William E. Fruhan, Jr.

1973 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 623
Author(s):  
C. C. Barnekov, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Carriers

scholarly journals A perfect symbiosis: Curaçao, the Netherlands and financial offshore services, 1951–2013

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Tijn van Beurden ◽  
Joost Jonker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tax Treaties ◽  
Gradual Decline ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Financial Centre ◽  
The One

Analysing Curaçao as an offshore financial centre from its inception to its gradual decline, we find that it originated and evolved in close concert with the demand for such services from Western countries. Dutch banks and multinationals spearheaded the creation of institutions on the island facilitating tax avoidance. In this they were aided and abetted by their government, which firmly supported the Antilles in getting access to bilateral tax treaties, notably the one with the United States. Until the mid 1980s Curaçao flourished, but then found it increasingly difficult to keep a competitive advantage over other offshore centres. Meanwhile the Curaçao connection had enabled the Netherlands to turn itself into a hub for international revenue flows that today still feed both Dutch tax income and specialised financial, legal and accounting services.

scholarly journals An Optimal Redesign Approach for Optimal Global Supply Chain Redesign: Brazilian Soybean Grain Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Juan José Uchuya Lopéz ◽  
Raad Yahya Qassim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Inland Waterways

Brazil and the United States are the leading soybean grain producing and exporting countries in the world. Although crop production cost is significantly lower in Brazil than in the United States due to more advanced crop production technology, this competitive advantage vanishes in view of the higher logistics costs in Brazil than in the United States, in view of the dominance of road transportation in Brazil, whilst river and rail transportation are prevalent in the United States. In order to regain its competitive advantage, there is a clear need for a redesign of the inland supply chain in Brazil through the use and expansion of existent inland waterways and rail networks. In this paper, an optimal supply chain redesign methodology is presented to achieve the aforesaid objective, with a focus on Mato Grosso which is the largest producer and exporting state in Brazil. This methodology is in fact applicable to multiply echelon global supply chains in general.

Introduction: trade unions and labour relations in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-405
Author(s):  
Jeremy Waddington
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Us ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
Strategic Options

This introductory article provides European readers with a succinct review of the organisation and activity of trade unions in the US. It also provides an analytical framework within which some of the strategic options available to US trade unions in the new millennium may be analysed. Three options are addressed: ‘reform for competitive advantage', ‘associational unionism’ and an adversarial ‘social-movement strategy'.

Knowledge and Competitive Advantage in the Synthetic Dye Industry, 1850–1914: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions in Great Britain, Germany, and the United States

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 699-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann Peter Murmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Royal College ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Synthetic Dyes ◽  
Synthetic Dye ◽  
Dye Industry

It is London 1856. William Henry Perkin serendipitously invents the first synthetic dye while he is trying to synthesize quinine, a medicine for malaria. The nineteen-year-old Perkin leaves the Royal College of Chemistry and quickly commercializes his aniline purple dye, launching the synthetic dye industry. From that time on, the industry continues to dazzle the eye with ever new and appealing dye colors. Perkin, along with entrepreneurs from Britain and France, dominates the synthetic dye industry for the next eight years. During this period, British and French firms introduce most other innovative synthetic dyes onto the market, and they hold the largest global market share.

scholarly journals Does Innovation, Investment and Trade influence Labour Productivity? Empirical Evidence from Selected Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Cornelia Caroline
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Strong Correlation ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Japan And China

Labour productivity is linked to improved living standards of a country, where higher productivity is usually seen as a competitive advantage for the country. The current study aims to identify the influence of investment, trade, and innovation on labour productivity using multi-regression. The sample involved four countries: the United States, Russia, Japan, and China. The results reveal varying degrees of relationships between labour productivity and other variables. In general, investment showed a strong correlation, trade showed a weaker relationship, and innovation showed insignificant relationship. When needed, the policymakers may consider raising labour productivity by improving investment or trade.  

Assistive Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Tran
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
The Disabled

The international workforce must understand and utilize knowledge and competencies in order to achieve and sustain longevity. Such knowledge and competencies are derived from human capital because human capital is an organization's most important asset. Hence, organizations need to be able to capitalize on human capital a source of competitive advantage. Organizations must first, focus on human capitals based on their ability, thereafter, provide modifications and accommodations, if necessary for (mobility) (dis)abled human capitals who may, upon request, require assistive technologies. Hence, the purpose of this chapter is to analyze assistive technology. Assistive technology will be defined, assistive technology laws will briefly be covered, and negative connotations will be addressed in relations to disabilities. The utilization of assistive technology, in the disabled community, in relations to the independence of the (motor) disabled in the workforce in the United States.

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