SAME AS IT EVER WAS: THE SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE OF INCREASING HYPERCOMPETITION GERRY MCNAMARA,* PAUL M. VAALER and CYNTHIA DEVERS 1 The Eli Broad School of Management, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. 2 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 3 College of Business Administration, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Mi...

Attention to global health diplomacy has been rising but the future holds challenges, including a difficult budgetary environment. Going forward, both global health and foreign policy practitioners would benefit from working more closely together to achieve greater mutual understanding and to advance respective mutual goals.

Corporate image is an important organizational resource that enables to create, strengthen and sustain competitive advantage. Different antecedents have been identified for corporate image in the literature including quality of products and services, consumer consideration or distribution system. Green supply chain management appears to be an antecedent of corporate image too. This study examin...

Global public opinion has emerged as an important factor affecting international relations. But have U.S. public diplomacy efforts during the post-9/11 period successfully improved foreign publics’ images of the U.S. and its foreign policy? We examine this question by estimating the effects of U.S. high-level visits to foreign countries on public opinion in those countries. Our compositional da...

The study of games in Artificial Intelligence has a long tradition. Game playing has been a fertile environment for the development of novel approaches to build intelligent programs. Multi-agent systems (MAS), in particular, are a very useful paradigm in this regard, not only because multi-player games can be addressed using this technology, but most importantly because social aspects of agenth...

This study analyzes the contribution of Minangkabau diplomats during era Indonesian independence. It is explained that at least six components in diplomacy need to be considered understanding diplomacy. The include participants, compromise, nature decisions must considered, understanding, time, and place. tries present something new by using ethnography.
 Keywords: Ethnicity, Diplomacy, Mi...

public diplomacy is an idiom that has been noticed increasingly in last decades due to extension of internet and satellite news networks. this type of diplomacy be used related to influence, guidance and mobilization of public opinion for the aims of governmental and non-governmental agents. in this article, the author tried to give analytical answer to this question: in spite of being newest, ...

The most important tool for promoting the bank’s stability and health is the establishment of a standard corporate governance structure for managing the bank's business. Redesigning the relationships between bank management, shareholders and the rest of the bank’s stockholder, including the objectives, the risk and audit indices, and internal control of the bank, is recognized as the foundation...