Author: Steve Cushing
Publisher: Matador
Keywords: competitor, tale, sables, des, marathon, 24th
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1848762860
ISBN-13: 9781848762862

A must read for anyone who has ever run the Marathon des Sables, anyone considering this or similar events, or for anyone who just wants to be challenged out of the easy and comfortable risk free life of the 21st century.

Author: Chris Alden
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: african, arguments, hegemon, competitor, africa, partner, china
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2007-09-15
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1842778641
ISBN-13: 9781842778647

Nowhere in the world is China’s rapid rise to power more evident than in Africa. From multi-billion dollar investments in oil and minerals to the influx of thousands of merchants, laborers and cheap consumer goods, China’s economic and political reach is redefining Africa’s traditional ties with the international community. This book investigates the emerging relationship between China and Africa to determine whether this engagement will be that of a development partner, economic competitor or new hegemony. Alden argues that in order to understand Chinese involv

Author: Leonard M. Fuld
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: analyzing, using, information, competitors, finding, resource, competitor, intelligence, complete, new
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1994-11-22
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0471585092
ISBN-13: 9780471585091

How to find and use the up-to-the-minute intelligence you need to win your fight for market share and glory! How do I analyze a private company’s true costs? When does the competition plan to roll out its new product and in what quantity? What are our customers’ long-term strategies? What new technologies or products does the competition have on its drawing boards? The New Competitor Intelligence shows where you can get the answers to these and most other questions you have about what the competition is up to. Learn, through easy-to-use techniques, how to analyze competitor informa

Authors:Dr Malcolm Trevor, Malcolm Trevor,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: japan, nationalism, library, economic, pursuit, restless, competitor
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2001-05-25
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 1903350026
ISBN-13: 9781903350027

In this important new and controversial study about the nature and focus of the Japanese economic agenda, the author argues forcefully that the official mind-set of leading bureaucrats, top politicians and big business, makes it virtually impossible for the western industrialized world to do business on an equal footing. Put simply, it is a question of western free-market economics facing Japanese economic nationalism, which is, by its very nature, both an expansive and a protectionist ideology. International observers continue to ask is Japan changing?’ or more forcefully, is Japan capa