ABSTRACT
Those societies that are undergoing fundamental transformation 1) politically as newly emerging democracies (NEDs), 2) economically as newly emerging markets (NEMs), or 3) diplomatically as newly independent states (NISs) are crucial cases for strategic management/planning and its challenges of systematic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It is clear that the capabilities in particular of human and material resources of emerging “supermarkets” such as Russia at the core of the NIS, China and its acquisition of Hong Kong, Brazil at the core of South America, and South Africa at the core of Southern Africa, will engender fierce competition for market entry by the Triad (the United States, European Union, and Japan).
