Journal "Problems and Perspectives in Management", #4/2004

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Contents of issue

CHAPTER 1
MACROECONOMIC PROCESSES AND REGIONAL ECONOMIES MANAGEMENT
Robert Goedegebuure, Rob van Tulder
National Competitiveness as a Portfolio Assessing Past and Future Comparative and Competitive Advantages of Countries: the Case of the European Union
Tracy Wong, Jens Hölscher
Are the CEECS Ready for the ERM II?
Jesús M. Zaratiegui
Marshallian Industrial Districts Revisited. Part III
Raul Gouvea
Challenges Facing Foreign Investors in Brazil: A Risk Analysis
Richard Tansey, Mark Neal, Ray Carroll
Patent Aggression: High Risk Intellectual Property Strategies in the Semiconductor Industries
Joan Buckley
The Need to Develop Responsible Marketing Practice in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Hoda McClymont, Gabriel Ogunmokun, Judith AliAkbari
An Exploratory Examination of the Marketing Philosophy Utilization in the Health Industry: A Case of Preventative Family Home Visiting Health Program in Australia
CHAPTER 2
MANAGEMENT IN FIRMS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Lisbeth Claus, Jessica Collison
HR Professionalism: Perceptions of US HR Practitioners
Frank L. Eichorn
Applying Internal Customer Relationship Management (IntCRM) Principles to Improving Business/IT Integration and Performance
István Henkey, Nikolett Noé
Job Satisfaction as a Key Management Tool to Step up Performance
F.H. Rolf Seringhaus, Philip Rosson
An Analysis Model for Performance Measurement of International Trade Fair Exhibitors
Ernest North, John North, Siebert Benade
Information Management and Enterprise Architecture Planning - A Juxtaposition
Richard R. Bahner, Linda K. Stroh
The Transformation Management Model: A Total Evaluation Route to Business Change Success
Christian Richter, Hagen Lindstädt
Explaining Organisational Boundaries with Complexity and Dynamics. Extending the Hypercompetition Concept with Institutional Economics
James W. Clark
Marketing Management Implications of Career Plateauing
Debi P. Mishra
Agency Relationships and Governance Mechanisms in Service Delivery: A Theoretical Analysis
Lloyd J. Taylor, III, P.E., Guy Miller
Goldratt's Thinking Process Applied to Bank Mergers and Acquisitions
CHAPTER 3
GENERAL ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT
Franklin Ramsoomair, Ross Howey
The Hard Realities of Soft Skills
Jana Kubanová
The Basic Idea of Bootstrap Methods
Tuomo Peltonen, Tuija Lämsä
‘Communities of Practice' and the Social Process of Knowledge Creation: Towards a New Vocabulary for Making Sense of Organizational Learning