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Unprecedented changes sweeping the world during the last few years have given rise to the need for the development and adoption of contingency strategies. This requires firms to have strategic flexibility in every aspect of their operation. Vendor development strategies constitute an important component in achieving this flexibility. Attempts to draw up an explicit conceptual link between generic business unit strategies and generic vendor development strategies. Proposes a vendor structure framework with three dimensions representing vendor structure scope, vendor structure relationship and vendor structure focus. Uses the framework to develop certain generic vendor development strategies. Considers the four generic strategies suggested by Porter, namely industry‐wide cost leadership strategy, industry‐wide differentiation strategy, segment cost leadership strategy and segment differentiation strategy and, for each one of these, proposes appropriate vendor development strategies.

This paper provides a guide to economic development policies for local government managers. Local economic development policies today include not only tax subsidies for branch plants, but also job training to provide workers to businesses, advice and support services for potential entrepreneurs, and extension services to help businesses modernize and export. To help local government managers, this paper suggests a number of guiding principles, including: local economic development should be pursued cooperatively across the local labor market; economic development programs should consider the quality of jobs created; tax subsidies are expensive per job created; development subsidies are more effective if the subsidy is frontloaded; high unemployment areas should be more aggressive than low unemployment areas in promoting job growth; many economic development services can be cheaply evaluated by business surveys. ; A revised version of this paper appears as "Strategies for Economic Development" in J.R. Aronson and E. Schwartz, eds. 1996. Management Policies in Local government Finance (4th Ed.). Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association, pp. 287-312.

ICT Development Strategies -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ACRONYMS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Introduction -- The Networked World -- 1.1 ICT Development -- 1.2 Benefits of The ICT -- ICT Development in South Korea, China and Vietnam -- 1.3 Economic Dynamics and ICT Development in Vietnam -- 1.4 Economic Dynamics and ICT Development in China -- 1.5 Economic Dynamic and ICT Development in South Korea -- 1.6 Comparison Between South Korea, China and Vietnam -- 1.7 Digital Economy Rankings -- ICT Performance Measurement Indexes -- 1.8 Networked Readiness Index -- 1.9 ICT Development Index -- ICT Development in Selected Asia Countries -- 1.10 Cluster Building -- 1.11 Correlation Analysis -- Political Options -- 1.12 Steps for Accelerating E-economy -- 1.13 General Lessons for Developing Countries -- 1.14 Policy Recommendations for Vietnam -- 1.15 Policy Recommendations for China -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1. Vietnam -- Appendix 2. China -- Appendix 3. South Korea -- Appendix 4. ICT data of 12 countries.

This book presents a critical review of the Vietnamese reform process and analyses the most crucial issues in the post-Asian crisis debate arguing that a wider debate is needed in order for national policy-makers to make well-informed decisions.

The achievements & failures of Pakistan development during the 1960s are assessed, the present strategy examined, & an alternative strategy suggested. In the 1960s, large foreign capital imports & channeling resources to those groups with higher average & marginal savings rates were to lead to a high growth rate. Industrialization was to proceed in stages, & agricultural policy relied on large farmers. To achieve this, the market was manipulated through tax holidays, subsidization, cheap capital goods, easy credit, & a system of licenses. Increasing home inequalities & increased dependence on foreign aid have resulted. Industrialization has not gone past the import substitution of consumer goods, & the future of agriculture is not good. The internal & external contradictions of the present strategy of equity & growth based on foreign aid are discussed & seen as unlikely to succeed. The following alternative strategy is suggested: (1) radical land reform with equitable distribution, (2) the establishment of cooperatives & consolidation of holdings, (3) using unemployed labor in Ru projects, (4) agricultural labor-intensive technology, (5) central planning in industry, & (6) labor participation in industry. A. Rubins.