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Issue 1, 1990

Telecommunications: Fueling Asia Pacific Growth?

If information is the oxygen of modern economic development, then telecommunications provides the essential circulatory system. A health check on the state of Asia Pacific telecommunications today would reveal both bad news and good news.
Issue 4, 1990

Alliances for Competitive Advantage: Why, When, and How

For better or worse, alliance formation soared during the 1980s as corporations united for competitive advantage. While many alliances have been highly successful, others have ended bitterly, and some should never have been formed in the first place. In today's world, it is important to understand...
Issue 3, 1990

Collaborating With Potential Competitors: The Profits and...

Many Western managers are becoming wary of joint ventures. They have learned through costly experience that such alliances - particularly with Asian partners - can become a low-cost route through which new competitors acquire technology and market access. However, with the costs of product and...
Issue 3, 1990

Academic/Industry Liaisons

It has been 37 years since Watson and Crick unraveled the genetic mysteries and catapulted molecular biology into the forefront of laboratory sciences. Events in the academic laboratories since then have been nothing short of revolutionary. We have progressed in our fundamental understanding of the...
Issue 3, 1990

The New Production-Sharing Networks

Production sharing is a strategy for conducting industrial operations in which certain procurement and manufacturing processes are restructured and shared, with firms in a developed country furnishing capital and technology-intensive components, while firms in a developing country furnish labor-...
Issue 2, 1990

From Uncertainty to Risk: Reducing the Guesswork in R&D

The R...
Issue 2, 1990

Planning for Chaos: A Scenario Approach to the Oil Market

No one can forecast oil prices. Yet a sharp change in oil prices can radically alter business conditions for a very large number of companies. In the early 1980s, automobile companies, iron and steel companies, airlines, marine transportation companies, and ultimately financial institutions all...
Issue 1, 1990

Asia Pacific: The Next Regional Trading Bloc?

If Lester Thurow is right in suggesting that GATT is "dead," how will international trading relationships develop during the rest of this century? In an era of improving communications and rapid economic development, companies' investment, marketing, and sourcing strategies are becoming...
Issue 4, 1990

The New Business Topography

Once again we are embarked on a period of turbulent change, when it seems that the established order is dissolving, familiar guideposts disappearing, and our traditional frames of reference out of date. The very topography in which business is conducted is shifting beneath our feet. Change of this...
Issue 1, 1990

Proprietary Technology: The Next Challenge for the NICs

The future economic success of the Asia Pacific region is predicated on developing and sustaining a successful manufacturing sector. This must include not only primary processing and secondary manufacturing, in which the region has considerable experience, but the development of proprietary...