Offers a detailed discussion of competitive assessment, an efficient and cost-effective method to evaluate competitive products. Describes its three phases: numerical scoring, building a best-of-breed model, and determining the gap between the best-of-breed model and another product. (SR)

Social partnership can provide a conceptual framework for employee participation. Its four critical elements are mutual recognition, participation, comprehensive vocational training, and institutional infrastructure. (SK)

Demonstrates the importance of standards for the competitiveness of U.S. companies and for international trade. The value of standards in research and development, marketing, design, purchasing, manufacturing, installation, and service is explained. Examples of specific standards and their application to the computer industry are included. (10…

Supports the claim that Communication Analysis research is as equally applicable to the analysis of speech exchange in formal or institutional settings as in natural conversation. The setting under consideration is that which has come to characterize the conclusion of sports competitions--the offer of compliments to the winner and commiserations…

Aspirations of research and other doctorate-granting universities are growing, both from internal pressures and expectations of alumni, states, and related industries and professions. The next two decades will present an increased likelihood of institutions moving up or down in academic ratings, and pressures for regional economic advancement…

Reviews automated-systems activities in libraries during the past year and profiles major vendors. Topics include new partnership arrangements driven by competition; library-systems revenues; Y2K issues; Windows-based interfaces; consulting; outsourcing; development trends; global system sales; and sales by type of library. (LRW)

Describes the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), a contest in which teams of three undergraduate students compete with other undergraduate teams from schools all over the world. Implements MCM at Eastern Oregon University and indicates that the MCM program promotes teamwork and generates enthusiasm in students. (Author/ASK)

Reliance on learning organization rhetoric about people as the competitive edge can be dangerous and costly. The Molecular Development Model, illustrating how individual learning integrated through management development, organizational development, and human resource development can result in a learning organization, addresses these problems. (SK)

Evaluates the relative merits of approaches to measuring corporate and competitive performance: financial, stakeholder, admiration, reputation, and corporate logic models. Promotes a holistic framework for selecting appropriate measures that considers strategic success in terms of values, environment, and resources. (SK)

Reviews the process of text-form evolution, beginning with clay tablets, and demonstrates how today's electronic book takes its place in the evolution. Considers size and weight of e-books, the concept of pages, technological development and economics, the coexistence of competing text formats, and competition between e-books and printed books.…

Explains how electronic commerce (e-commerce) principles can be useful for distance education in higher education. Topics include business-to-business and business-to-consumer models; entering the marketplace; understanding the institution's capabilities; knowing the competition; and sound financial models. (LRW)

Discusses how a college sports recruiting scandal points to the role of athletics in a poor neighborhood in Memphis; it highlights how intensely colleges compete for the city's players. (EV)

This article extends the work of Kellam, Ling, Merisca, Brown and Ialongo (1998) by applying a mathematical model of competition between children to peer contagion in the aggressive behaviors of elementary school students. Nonlinearity in the relationship between group aggression and individual aggression at 2-year follow-up is present. Consistent…

This article describes current evolutionary research on adolescent sexual and romantic behavior. It first reviews functional explanations for basic sex differences in behavior. As in other pair-bonding mammals, women seek dominant males, and men seek and guard young, fertile females. Recent work is then described on adolescent competitiveness,…

Higher educational institutions face fundamental challenges as they adapt to increasingly competitive markets. This literature review provides a context on markets, failure, and turnarounds, and discusses the literature on the shift of the higher educational industry into competitive markets. The literature on turnarounds in the corporate…