Plowing the sea : nurturing the hidden sources of growth in the developing world
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Bibliographic Information
Plowing the sea : nurturing the hidden sources of growth in the developing world
Harvard Business School Press, c1997
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization図
/338.9/Pl100711979804
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The focus of this book is how developing nations can learn to compete successfully in the global economy by applying the principles of competitive analysis. Seven key patterns of underperformance are identified and principles and practices are offered for overcoming them.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the cautionary case of Colombian flowers
- avoid overreliance on basic factor - comparative advantage is not competitive advantage
- improve understanding of customers
- knowledge of relative position
- forward integrate - and get closer to the customer
- beyond poor interfirm cooperation - it's not the cow's fault
- overcoming defensiveness - assigning responsibility not blame
- beyond paternalism
- strategic actions - not making choices is making choices
- firm-level learning
- steering mechanisms and national development strategies
- mental models
- the hidden sources of growth
- a framework for action.
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