Important new tools are now available to planning professionals and their information systems support staff. These new tools create both opportunities and hazards—including the hazard of overlooking an opportunity for competitive advantage. The problem is that, while changes in price and...

This thorough field research report and reference guide by Bruce Rubinger of Global Competitiveness Council, One Devonshire Place, Boston, MA 02109, is an excellent resource. Based on interviews and Japanese language source information from over 100 firms, research institutes, and faculty...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is two‐fold: first, it sets out to suggest that when a new ERP system or an upgrade is considered it may be best to begin with a formal analysis of the market leader's IT strategy. This study must address how they use information across the extended...

In this paper, I have described the beginnings of a theory of collective decisions, using as a basis the controversy which has occurred in the theory of public finance, between the individualists and the organicists. In developing such a theory, my aim is to face the most difficult of all...

Extending the concept of efficiency beyond economic markets to social transactions generally, this paper asks the question whether social efficiency might not be better realized by removing the barriers to transactions between political and economic resources. With political rights (i.e....