The Digital Silk Road and the growing significance of People’s Republic China in competition over technological supremacy world Over past few years, many scientists have analyzed China’s Belt Initiative, but very studied a significant component this initiative – (DSR). Although attention regarding implementation is focused mainly on international transport infrastructure projects, such as roads...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, medical tourism market has been raised as one of the income-earning and competitive industries in the world and is considered as a modern field of advanced tourism. Therefore, a great number of countries are seeking to develop this type of tourism and one of the strategies for developing this industry is using the marketing mix elements. METHODS This study was a ...

At the Olympic level, differences in performance are typically less than 0.5%. This helps explain why many contemporary elite endurance athletes in summer and winter sport incorporate some form of altitude/hypoxic training within their year-round training plan, believing that it will provide the "competitive edge" to succeed at the Olympic level. The purpose of this paper is to describe the pra...

Empirical applications of real options models in competitive environments implicitly exploit the optimality of myopic planning. In a seminal paper Leahy (1993) shows that the optimal investment strategy of a myopic planner, who ignores market entries and exits of competitors as well as the resulting price effects, also constitutes a market equilibrium under rather general conditions. As a resul...

This paper presents a case study where competitive e-learning strategies are used in the teaching of an undergraduate Database course in order to develop, in university students, the capacity to actively research and to lead their own learning process. The experience has been carried out in the spring semester (February-June 2007) and is based on the use of the QUEST system. This tool for activ...

Online shopping has become a common way in which retail businesses are conducted across most parts of the world. South African (SA) retailers such as Takealot, Makro, and Spree added this function to their existing operations. However, survival SA online stores is compromised by competitive activities set international players, including Amazon, eBay, Google. Nine West Mango have closed amidst ...

The climate-change agreement negotiated in Kyoto obliges the OECD countries to initiate the international effort of abating the anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. In the event that such an initiative is taken, the associated competitive pressures may induce Ž significant offsetting increases in non-OECD emissions a process generally known as . leakage . The current models used to study the...

Economic geography in an era of global competition poses a paradox. In theory, location should no longer be a source of competitive advantage. Open global markets, rapid transportation, and high-speed communications should allow any company to source any thing from any place at any time. But in practice, Michael Porter demonstrates, location remains central to competition. Today's economic map ...