"Economic competitiveness" is at the top of national, regional and global political and economic agendas. Several countries in all regions of the world have established policies and institutions devoted to economic competitiveness, including in developing and transition countries. This leads to the question of how to define national economic…

Features and merits of twelve offensive basketball patterns are presented in this volume. Plays described are: (1) single pivot-post offense; (2) double pivot-post offense; (3) weak-side cutter series (reverse action offense); (4) 1-3-1 offense (hi-lo offense); (5) Illinois continuity offense; (6) rotation offense; (7) shuffle offense; (8) pick…

The coach of a basketball team recounts the experiences encountered by his team in the California Special Olympics Basketball Tournament. Three days in the team's life are traced from the time the team boards the plane to Los Angeles, through initial defeat, to victory in the fourth game and winning third place medals. (SB)

In the past few years, American companies have turned to customer service as a way to create a competitive edge. This article discusses how several companies train their employees to deal with customers. (JOW)

Compares the content of competitive newspapers and monopoly newspapers, stating that competition has an impact on daily newspaper content. Notes that competitive newspapers have more reporters and buy more wire services than comparable newspapers without competition. (MM)

Measures the extent to which other media compete with newspapers in the market for national advertising, using coefficients of the cross-elasticity of demand between newspapers and eight other media. Concluded that no other media reside in the same product market for national advertising. (MM)

In academic debate the affirmative plan is the basis of argument; for debate to be competitive, therefore, the importance of the counterplan cannot be overstated. This article proposes a new criterion for assessing whether counterplans are competitive. (PD)

The effect of competition on ideational creativity is considered in light of the theories of J. Adams, J. Abramson, P. Torrance, M. Raina, and J. Heifetz. It is concluded that the data show competition to facilitate creativity. (SW)

Presents a model that depicts a possible connection between competitive advantage and information technology. Focuses on flexibility of the information technology infrastructure as an enabler of core competencies, especially mass customization and time-to-market, that have a relationship to sustained competitive advantage. (Contains 82…

Asserts that this annual ranking of the nation's academic institutions exacerbates their competitiveness and influences them to alter their behavior in ways that misserve individual students and higher education as a whole. Suggests how the rankings could instead encourage helpful institutional collaborations. (EV)

Hypotheses relating ownership to domain differences among state-owned, publicly traded, and privately held firms in international competition were examined in a controlled field study of the offshore drilling industry. Ownership explained selected differences in domestic market dominance, international presence, and customer orientation, even…

Contributes to scholarship on newspaper competition and news coverage. Finds that newspaper competition was much more likely to affect content than TV news competition, but that TV can have an impact on some reporters. Shows a strong relationship between competition and reporter/editor interaction, and the impact of this interaction on reporters'…

Discusses declining attendance at conferences and trade shows and considers trends that are impacting conference experiences, including rising expectations, desktop technologies, and a competitive environment for learning opportunities. Offers suggestions for using technology to offer pre- and post-conference value as well as to improve the core…

Amid today's acute competition on the international scene, universities are a major factor affecting a country's key competitive ability. Thus creating and running world-class universities should be one of the strategic foci of building up a country. Other than such mandatory requirements as having world-class teaching abilities and research…

During the past three decades, behavioral practitioners have been applying techniques to improve the performance of athletes. To what extent are interventions, designed to improve the directly and reliably measured performance of athletes in competitions, based on experimental demonstrations of efficacy? That is the question addressed by this…