The new competitive paradigm of managing moving targets in the 21st century is being proposed. In the new era of rapid and volatile changes, whatever strategy you try, competitive advantage is tougher to create and sustain with each passing year. It is like in the world of professional baseball...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the transition of ten sub-indexes of economic freedom among 130 countries in the world. The three central questions of this study are: do economic freedom sub-indexes converge? Do some sub-indexes of economic freedom display more clear-cut convergence when...

Can human performance continue to improve indefinitely? Or improvement will eventually slow down due to the existence of maximum limit? In this paper, the world records of 61 sport events in running and swimming through the last hundred years have been analysed to answer the question about the...

One of the important unresolved questions on the analysis of urban traffic congestion deals with urban congestion penalty versus advantage. This research with examine whether larger cities experience disproportionately greater traffic congestion by using data available from Tom Tom for 164...

This research examines the existence of urban safety advantage versus penalty among 49 to 42 large cities. Each city is scored across four main categories of safety: digital security, health security, infrastructure safety, and personal safety for the year of 2015. Total group of cities is...

Using yearly nitrogen dioxide pollution measures in parts per billion for 179 countries during 1979 to 2011, this research examines whether the convergence process of catch-ups has taken place among countries in both total as well as in multiple subgroups of countries. All four income subgroups...