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
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