The environment is captured in the "diamond" framework (see Fig. 1) consisting of four attributes: the presence of high-quality and specialized inputs, a context that encourages investment coupled with intense local rivalry, pressure and insight gleaned from sophisticated local demand, and the local presence of related supporting industries (Porter and Stern 2002).
Backstage rivalries and pressures are described, sometimes with surprising eloquence.
It also remains to be seen how those friendships survive the friendly, but pointed, rivalry and pressure that came from competing for their country rather than their sponsored teams.
A common Malaysian identity is an illusion that continues to be pursued amid endless religious, social, and economic differences, fanned by political rivalries and racial pressures.
But in Europe the international rivalry has put pressure on the railroads to improve service -- German pride required a high-speed train to match the French TGV.
It was a hard trick to pull off, what with rivalries and the pressures of a craft that requires participation with other people.
The show features various references to pop culture and common themes, such as sibling rivalry and peer pressure, from a fly's point of view.
They reckon that the pressure of rivalry is most beneficial in democratic countries.
Maria Padian, the author of two previous young adult novels ("Jersey Tomatoes Are the Best" and "Brett McCarthy: Work in Progress"), offers plenty of story in "Out of Nowhere": romantic rivalries, class tensions, family pressures.
At the team level, the pressure from rivalry may even reduce individual members' incentive to free ride (Erev et al. 1993).
