AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR
COMPETITIVENESS
Grover E. Norquist Abbas J. Ali Robert Lattimer
President Executive Director Chairman of the Board
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Abbas J. Ali, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Kathy Baker, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Philip Balsmeier, Nicholls State University
Chris
W. Brussalis, The Hill Group, Inc.
Robert
C. Camp, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania
G.
Scott Erickson, Ithaca College, NY
Elizabeth
Fitzgerald, Kennesaw State University
Joe
Horton, University of Central Arkansas
Ben
Kedia, University of Memphis
Robert Lattimer, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
Warren
E. Norquist, Polaroid, Inc. (Retired)
Jeff Stewart, Merger & Acquisition Services, LLC
Dan
Twomey, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Mark
D. Steele, Jakel, Inc.
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Chairperson: Jeff Stewart
Members:
Nadia J. Abgrab, Salve Regina University
Raj
Aggarwal, Kent State University
Fikru
Boghossian, Morgan State University
Carl
Clark, Auburn University
Wayne
Kost, Philip Crosby Associates II
Robert
Letovsky, Saint Michael's College
Jean-Michel Quentier,
Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Pau (ESCPAU)
Dinker
Raval, Morgan State University
Jack
Scarborough, Barry University
Stuart
J. Sigman, Emerson College
Bala
Subramanian, Morgan State University
Paul
Sultan, Southern Illinois University
Aysar
P. Sussan, University of Central Florida
Carl
H. Tong, Radford University
Ted
Whetstone, Whetstone Strategy Group
OFFICE
Carl
H. Tong, Vice President, Membership
Victor
Cordell, Vice President, Educational Community Relations
Manton
Gibbs, Associate Executive Director
Dimitris
Kraniou, Vice President, Business Affairs
Helen
Bailie, Assistant Editor
Vivek
Mallapragada, Production Coordinator
Susan Brant, Business Manager
ADVANCES IN
COMPETITIVENESS
RESEARCH
Editor-in-Chief
Abbas J. Ali, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Managing
Editor
Robert C. Camp, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Manuscript Editor
Malcolm Hayward, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Book
Review Editor
N.K. Rustagi, Howard University
Consulting
Editor
Prashanth Nagendra
Bharadwaj, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
EDITORIAL BOARD
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William Acar Kent State University Abdel M. Agami Old Dominion
University Raj Aggarwal Kent State University Raid Ajami University of North Carolina James C. Baker Kent State University John Bank Cranfield University Kip Becker Boston University
Shahid N. Bhuian Louisiana
Tech University Jean Boddewyn Baruch College
Victor Cordell Institute of Intn=l Studies, Monterey
Gary N. Dicer The University of Tennessee-Knoxville |
Manucher
Farhang Lulea University of Technology Erdener Kaynak Pennsylvania State University
Ben Kedia The University of Memphis Sarkis Khoury University of California, Riverside
Douglas M.
McCabe Georgetown University Richard Nelson Louisiana State University Betty J.
Punnet University of West Indies Yash Puri University of Massachusetts-Lowell
David Ricks University of Missouri, St. Louis
Jack
Scarborough Barry
University Jeff Stewart Greenwood Group |
Paul W.
Swiercz George
Washington University David M.
Szymanski Texas A&M
University Daphne G.
Taras University of
Calgary George Tesar University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Rosalie Tung Simon Fraser University Niren Vyas University of South Carolina A.N.M.
Waheeduzzaman Texas A&M
University-Corpus Christi Nikolai
Wasilewski Pepperdine
University Mahmoud Yasin East Tennessee State University Shaker Zahra Georgia State University Shuming Zhao Nanjing University |
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