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Weitsz, Marijke (Marijke Adriana). "Learning & knowledge : critical elements to sustained competitive advantage." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53485.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The increased rate of competitive challenges imposed on organisations by global economy, technological product changes, processes (Dixon, 1992; Dodgson, 1993), and abundance of information available (Huber 1991) necessitate organisations to unlearn, learn and relearn faster than others to survive. The development of sustainable competitive advantages is a vital management function and an important organisational requirement is to nurture learning and create new knowledge enabling organisations to exploit, develop and uti

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Moesli, Christoph. "Sources of sustained competitive advantage : a resource-based analysis." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2013. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23570.

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Understanding the origins of persistent superior firm performance has in the past few decades emerged as one of most important areas of research in the field of strategic management. Existing empirical studies on performance variability, however, remain inconclusive, and a significant portion of the variance in performance is still unexplained. The purpose of this dissertation is to deepen our understanding of the firm-level sources of sustained competitive advantage. It is one of the few empirical studies that attempt to explore firm-level sources of sustained competitive advantage from insid

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Saodekar, Sarvesh P. (Sarvesh Pramod). "Information technology and sustained competitive advantage : a research model for the effect of information technology on sustained competitive advantage and an empirical analysis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76508.

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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2012.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-72).<br>Companies consider Information Technology (IT) to be a major factor for achieving sustained competitive advantage (SCA). The effect of IT on firm performance has been studied from two main perspectives: the market based perspective and the resource based view. The market based perspective emphasises market structure as the primary cause of a com

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Mahlangabeza, Luyolo. "Strategy for a sustained competitive advantage: a case of a tank container manufacturer." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1012959.

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The world has become one small global village. This is a result of globalisation, the advancement in technology and many other contributing factors. Economic incidents and outlook in Europe, Asia and America have a direct and immediate impact on the developing countries and Africa in particular. Positive economic growth in Africa’s major trading partners has direct positive implications on Africa’s economy. Negative economic growth in Africa’s major trading partners has undesirable consequences on Africa’s economy. As a developing country with a diversified economy which mainly relies on expor

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Pervaje, Amith (Amith Kumar). "Resource-based view of social media as a source of sustained competitive advantage." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67567.

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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2011.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-62).<br>Executive summary: Social Media is increasingly becoming prevalent and firms are increasingly adopting social media. Managers are concerned about the value social media provides and how it can be used for competitive advantage. The resource-based-view of a firm suggests that resources that are rare, valuable, imperfectly imitable and non-substit

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Mbha, Nombulelo. "The antecedents of sustained competitive advantage in low income markets : a financial services analysis." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64880.

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Businesses are currently operating in an environment characterised by constant change due to, an increase in competitive rivalry, erratic global events, continuous change in customer needs, technological developments and a changing regulatory landscape (Osisioma, Nzewi & Mgbemena, 2016). Based on these environmental changes, in their current state, the resources and capabilities of the organisation risk becoming obsolete because Òfirms are not only competing in their ability to configure and exploit existing resources, but also in their ability to renew and develop these resourcesÓ (Osisioma,

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Chow, Lo-sing Charles, and 周路成. "Resource complementarity of the internet and its role in creating sustained competitive advantage in firms." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210327.

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Bujak, Adam. "E-Business : operational and strategic challenges for wholesale establishments on the way to sustained competitive advantage /." Hamburg : Kovač, 2008. http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-3254-0.htm.

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Shang, Kuo-Chung. "Building sustained competitive advantage through logistics competency : an empirical study of the manufacturing industry in Taiwan." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407552.

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Bujak, Adam. "E-business operational and strategic challenges for wholesale establishments on the way to sustained competitive advantage." Hamburg Kovač, 2007. http://d-nb.info/986205966/04.

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Haubursin, Hervé, and Wen Shao. "An Enemy for a Friend – A study on coopetition leading to sustained competitive advantage of Swedish SMEs in the Cleantech Industry." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-66862.

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The field of study on coopetition has been given a growing emphasis in the recent years by researchers and business practice. Coopetition is a term integrating the notions of cooperation and competition happening as an intensive simultaneous process where actors seek to leverage the value created by other companies in their business network. These complex and paradoxical interactions are acknowledged as needing further research about the effects of coopetition and the different types of coopetitive interactions involved when firms coopete. The business network highlighted in the current study

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DAHLSTRAND, MARCUS. "Visual Quality and Sustained Competitive Advantage The case of appearance approval validation of Scania’s commercial heavy vehicles." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-223975.

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Sabri, Ayoub Diar. "Leveraging Artificial Intelligence For Sustained Organizational Competitive Advantage : A Study In Natural Language Processing And Dynamic Capabilities." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-301650.

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Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)are disrupting industries worldwide and are being categorized as drivers of a technological revolution. The economic impact is hypothesized to amount to hundreds of billions of US dollars in losses of wages, affecting governmental tax revenue streams consequentially. Firms that manage to leverage these technologies by developing sustained competitive advantage are ultimately the firms that will prosper. Competitive advantage stems from the dynamic capabilities, characterizing the organizational and managerial processes

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Jukelsonová, Sofie. "Create and Sustain Competitive Advantage in Online/IT industry." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-124858.

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The purpose of this work is to define a theorical framework to explain sustainability of competitive advantage in what we will name network industries: social networks, internet based services, mobile devices and online softwares. This framework will consist in integration of the well known Porter approach combined with a more recent Resource Based View of the firm. Using four real cases, with a focus on Google, we will demonstrate that sustaining competitive advantage in those industries requires a combination of external opportunities and a strong defensible resource position. One without th

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Ammar, Ali Alalawneh. "The impact of information technology on sustained competitive advantage in the Jordanian banking industry : a resource-based view." Thesis, Coventry University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.626853.

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Dunert, Sofie, and Patrik Westerling. "Outsourcing and Sustained Competitive Advantage : How do Swedish technical production firms in a competitive environment and high technical uncertainty find the right balance between outsourcing and in-house development that enhances their sustainable competitive advantage when they outsource their Research & Development externally?" Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-5299.

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<p>The purpose of this thesis is to find out when Research and Development (R&D) becomes a suitable attribute for a production company to outsource. In an environment where innovations are following up quickly up and uncertainty about the type of innovation and customer is a fact, external sourcing can bring a competitive advantage. The empirical evidence shows that when R&D is outsourced the total cost does not increase at a due cause of outsourcing in this given study.</p><p>Although a lot of theory explains outsourcing as a cost increasing factor, the internal experience and frequent relati

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Brinkhues, Rafael Alfonso. "A capacidade de gestão da informação como fonte de vantagem competitiva sustentável da firma." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/150576.

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A informação vem sendo apontada como a base da competitividade. A maior parte das pesquisas, no entanto, têm focado em estudar o impacto dos recursos eminentemente tecnológicos. Com as transformações no fluxo informacional, desenvolver novas capacidades é apontado como um imperativo competitivo para as organizações. Mais do que a análise dos recursos isoladamente, a análise das capacidades enquanto um conjunto de habilidades para ganhar, integrar e gerir recursos vem ganhando um papel importante na área de SI. As capacidades são particularmente úteis para as organizações em ambientes que mudam

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Nguyen, Tran Anh Kiet <1989&gt. "HOW FIRMS USE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) TO BUILD AND SUSTAIN THEIR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17717.

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Internet of Things (IoT) is growing as a new trend in global business context. It is affirmed through the development of applications and hardware to exploit the advantage of network and data in sustaining business performance of the companies. The World Economic Forum (2018) reported IoT spending has been gradually increasing at nearly 14% in its compound annual growth rate during the period of 2017-22022 with estimated spending amount of US$1.2 trillion by 2022. According to Russo & Wang (2019), the number of IoT-connected devices reached 11 billion and it could be 10 times higher by 2030. R

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Moularé, Éboua Yves Éric Didier. "The Influence of Stakeholders on the Sustainable Development of the Wind Power Industry in Canada: The Firm’s Perspective." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33456.

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We propose making an empirical application of the temporal view of stakeholder management theory by applying it in the particular context of the Canadian wind industry. The temporal view builds on insights from the resource-based view (RBV), institutional theory, and stakeholder salience theory. We argue that both early stage competitive advantage and late stage sustained competitive advantage could be dependent on the use of salient stakeholders as a special network of resources. We contribute to the literature in various ways. First we determine an empirical list of five salient stakeholders

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Yang, Tan. "A resource-based perspective on E-commerce technologies and sustained firm competitive advantage : An empirical study of small and medium enterprises in the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495690.

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Ekberg, Isabell, and Jessica Jarosz. "Arbetet med miljövänliga förpackningar som resurs : En kvalitativ studie inom dagligvaruhandeln." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för handel och företagande, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-14258.

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Att vara lönsam är en förutsättning för företags långsiktiga överlevnad. Samtidigt blir det generellt sett allt hårdare konkurrens och antalet konkurrenter ökar ständigt. Företag behöver således hitta sätt för att kunna fortsätta vara konkurrenskraftiga på marknaden. Enligt resursbaserad teori kan företag inneha eller skapa resurser inom sin verksamhet som kan leda till varaktiga konkurrensfördelar, och som följaktligen är viktiga att identifiera och utnyttja på bästa sätt. En tillfällig konkurrensfördel anses vara värdefull, ovanlig samt icke utbytbar. För att resursen ska kunna anses vara va

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Song, Tebek. "Differentiation strategies of Korean Deposit Money Banks to sustain a competitive advantage in the household savings market." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3531.

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Competition among financial institutions in Korean household savings market (HSM) has become severe. Deposit money banks (DMBs) which have occupied the main prop of the Korean financial system have entered turbulent times mainly due to the relaxation of financial regulations which artificially provide a stabilized market environment, as well as the out-performance of non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs). Also, Korean households are becoming better educated, more sophisticated and richer in line with the increase in wealth of the nation. The market share of DMBs in HSM has gradually decli

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Kumlehn, Malte. "Consumer Neuroscience : Pricing research to gain and sustain a cutting edge competitive advantage by improving customer value and profitability." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-44981.

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This is the first study that exclusively focuses on gaining knowledge of the vast opportunities that Neuroscientific pricing research offers for marketing purposes. The findings of this study provide evidence of the importance to improve customer and organizational decision making. The findings further highlight the crucial importance of Neuroscientific pricing research. Moreover, evidence is provided that fundamental and well formulated models and concepts need to be developed in the discipline of Neuroscientific pricing research. Neuroscientific pricing research can improve the understanding

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Griffiths, Gareth H. "An investigation into the process, context and organisational factors that lead to IS driven sustained competitive advantages in financial services, retailing and manufacturing." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1999. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7185.

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The study undertook an examination of the process, context and organisational factors that lead to an IS-driven sustainable competitive advantage. The research contributes theory-based conceptual synthesis and empirical evidence to an area that has transformed radically over the last fifteen years. The methodology adopted a pluralistic approach drawing upon both positivism and interpretist evidence. Care was taken to ensure that the primary research undertaken in Financial Services, Retailing and Manufacturing was subject to a variety of validating procedures and controls. The study identifled

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Almeida, Liliana Magon de. "Gestão do conhecimento em radiologia e diagnóstico por imagem: práticas e condições capacitadoras, a visão do médico especialista." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2007. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/679.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:26:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Liliana Magon de Almeida.pdf: 885415 bytes, checksum: bf44fd103973bfe0307baa9ec3e599b9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-13<br>This study analyzes the knowledge management in Radiology Services. Through a theoretical revision inspired in the Resource Based View, the knowledge can be interpreted as a resource, with high potential to generate competitive advantage to its organization. In order to make possible that the competitive advantage generated by the organizational knowledge be sustained through time, this res

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Corell, Elsa, and Kristina Pkhikleshvili. "Stockholm Valley; the new Silicon Valley? : - A qualitative research study of organizational resources and capabilities obtained through the Stockholm cluster to create international competitiveness for tech startups." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85413.

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The purpose of the thesis was to identify the tech startups main organizational resources and capabilities received from the Stockholm cluster. Correspondently, how those encourage to sustained competitive advantage internationally. The aim was to ensure a deeper understanding with a qualitative research method with a multiple case study and an abductive approach. The empirical findings were based on seven case companies that were committing within the tech sector and were internationalized. Further, the literature review takes off with the definition of the segment, namely the tech startups f

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Köhnke, Johanna, Ewa Chmiel, and Pawel Kuska. "The dilemma of Polish subcontractors : A study of sustaining competitiveness in a changing environment." Thesis, University of Kalmar, Baltic Business School, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-376.

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<p>Our interest in this thesis is based on the discussion we had in previous courses about the development of emerging countries. Since two of the writers of this thesis are from Poland we tried to found a common interest, hence the relationship between the Polish subcontractors and Swedish customer is analyzed.</p><p>Poland is also known as a low cost country and that make it favorable when it comes about hiring subcontractors. The subcontractors in Poland are also known for the skills and expertise to produce quality. Something that is important for many foreign companies. IKEA has more than

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MEHRA, SHALINI. "Customer Co-creation and Dynamic Capabilities - An IKEA Case Study." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279752.

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Dynamic Capabilities of a firm bundle all the processes that enable it to sustain competitive advantage in today’s volatile markets. Study of the microfoundations of dynamic capabilities is a fairly new framework. Even so, it is a widely researched one. Customer co-creation has armored firms with a new level of customer knowledge and mature firms are taking to customer co-creation for designing better value propositions to sustain their competitive advantage in the market. This thesis aims at examining how customer co-creation is contributing to the dynamic capabilities of a mature firm. Throu

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SILVA, MARTIM FRANCISCO DE OLIVEIRA E. "THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF NATIONS AND THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF COMPANIES: DOES LOCATION MATTER?" PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=13434@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>Há dois pontos de vista dominantes no campo da Administração Estratégica para explicar o desempenho das empresas: a visão da Organização Industrial, que destaca o papel do ambiente industrial e a Visão Baseada em Recursos, que salienta a importância das características individuais das empresas, ambos extensamente estudados. Entretanto, a associação entre o desempenho das empresas e a competitividade das nações, em termos de seus ambientes institucionais, culturais, políticos e econômicos é um campo do conhecimento que continua a ser pouco e

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Berzengi, Raz, and Anna Linbom. "Competitive Advantage of Environmental Sustainability." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1342.

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<p>More and more companies are trying to adopt a sustainability strategy, because of a growing awareness among people about a need for better environment in the future. It has been noticed that a balance between economic, social and environmental aspects is of great significance. The benefits of a strategy to become more balanced are said to be competitive advantage and stakeholder satisfaction besides the economic, social and environmental benefits.</p>

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Runge, D. A. "Using telecommunications for competitive advantage." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235120.

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Gloudemans, Colin A. "A Competitive Advantage: Disaggregated Judgments." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1625688234060059.

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Bellak, Christian. "Gaining and losing competitive advantage." Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2003. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1414/1/document.pdf.

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Efficient policies to stimulate the competitiveness of firms require knowledge of future firm-strategies and a proper assessment of the location advantages of a country or region. Therefore, industry comparative advantage analysis needs to be complemented by firm competitive advantage analysis. This yields four hypotheses of firm strategies on the basis of the existing advantage combination. Detailed empirical analysis of a representative sample of Austrian manufacturing firms during 1990- 2000 shows that changes in employment, value-added and exports are in line with the suggested development

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Asija, Aman. "Leveraging knowledge for competitive advantage." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672240.

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Explotar el coneixement és fonamental per aconseguir un avantatge competitiu. No obstant això, ha estat un repte persistent per a les empreses. Segons la visió de l'empresa basada en el coneixement, l'apropiació i la reproducció efectiva de el coneixement són pertinents per a l'explotació de el coneixement dins de l'empresa. Per tant, les empreses utilitzen diferents estratègies per millorar la apropiabilitat i replicabilitat dels seus coneixements. Aquesta tesi se centra en les barreres específiques a l'explotació de el coneixement que tenen implicacions per a l'apropiació i la reproducció de

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Crassous, Thibault, and Jeremy Gassmann. "GAINING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE THROUGH GREEN MARKETING : How green marketing is used as a competitive advantage?" Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-18257.

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The research question how green marketing is used as a competitive advantage was answered by the analysis of the multiple case-study of two organizations of the boardsports industry, Jade and Notox. The comparison between theories and interviews revealed that, by doing green branding, having eco-labels, and implementing the five I’s, Jade and Notox are differentiating. This differentiation provides them a competitive advantage. In addition, Jade and Notox innovate in green materials and processes which, coupled with eco-labels, maintain the differentiation and generate a sustainable advantage.

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Bowen, George. "Competitive advantage, political advantage and shelter in the textile industry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5af357b8-d2e4-49f3-b8d4-52f2dbed354b.

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The effect of government on competitive advantage theory has only been covered superficially in strategic management literature. This thesis incorporates government into competitive advantage and multinational enterprise (MNE) theory by demonstrating how politically derived firmspecific advantages (FSAs) and competitive advantages may accrue from noncommercial, political sources, to be manifested in commercial enterprises as 'political competitive advantages (PCAs)'. The empirical background to this thesis is a study of the global textile industry and the complexity, multidimensional and multi

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Rosenblad, Grönlund Caroline, and Lejla Poricanin. "Competitive Advantage within Accounting Firms : - A framework of how managers create competitive advantage through their organizational resources and competitive strategy." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-29482.

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Kermanshah, A. "Information systems strategy for competitive advantage." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488362.

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Information Systems (IS) strategy for competitive advantage has been one of the dominant concerns in the literature of strategic management of Information Technology. Despite this, the processes and methodologies suggested in the literature for understanding and describing how, why and under what circumstances IS strategy may bring about sustainable competitive advantage are incomplete and unsatisfactory. The main objective of this thesis is to provide a critical analysis of the received theory of IS strategy and to suggest an integrative framework (Resource-Based Perspective) for the analysis

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Ryan, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne) 1961. "Sustainable competitive advantage through information technology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9193.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2000.<br>Also available online on DSpace at MIT.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaf 48).<br>This paper discusses the difficulty of achieving sustainable competitive advantage through information technology. While information technology proliferates and innovations arise frequently, few companies have been able to use IT to remain leaders in their industries. Using a framework proposed by Michael Scott Morton, this paper examines how one firm, Capital One Financial, has created sustainable competitive

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Nel, Petrus Abel. "A competitive advantage through information management." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49667.

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Raciti, Robert C. "Creating Competitive Advantage With Internet Technology." NSUWorks, 1998. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/784.

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This study resulted in a paradigm which will enable Fortune 1000 companies to quantify the competitive advantage derived from their Web-based applications. With this model, Information Technology (IT) managers are better equipped to understand the strategic importance of the Web within their business. This author used an instrument called CAPITA (Competitive Advantage Provided by an Information Technology Application) to quantify the Web's effect on the competitive advantage of a company. The CAPITA is an instrument that measures the effect of an IT application on the numerous aspects of compe

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Nouraei, Bahram, and Duarte Ferreira Angela Filipa. "Enterprise Modeling As a Competitive Advantage." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413764.

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This paper investigates the contribution of enterprise modeling to the emergence and sustainability of the firm’s competitive advantage using the theoretical model developed by Chandra S. Mishra (2017). Agility, alertness, knowledge integration and business model mechanisms have been identified as the main sources of competitive advantage. Four semi-structured interviews were conducted with experts and senior enterprise modeling consultants with diverse national and international experiences, based on which a qualitative content analysis was done. The study shows that enterprise modeling has a

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Petcavage, Sheila. "Applying Costing Models for Competitive Advantage." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1915.

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Making good supply management decisions is essential to competing in the global market, as these decisions often account for more than 60% of the average company's total costs. The purpose for this single case study was to explore the strategy that a large manufacturing firm in northeast Ohio used to identify costs when making effective purchasing decisions. The total cost of ownership (TCO) theory was the conceptual framework for the study. The data collection included a semistructured interview with a senior level supply manager and a focus group consisting of mid-level supply managers. Memb

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Sciotto, Carlotta <1995&gt. "Design Thinking for Sustainable Competitive Advantage." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16566.

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Design thinking has gained a lot of importance and visibility in the last decades. Its increasing importance is due to the variety of applications that it has and the variety of fields in which it can be applied. Design thinking is an approach for creative problem-solving and for the opening up of paths that had been previously unexplored. It is defined as a ‘systematic and collaborative approach for identifying and creatively solving problems’. (Luchs, 2015) Throughout the thesis, I will describe the foundations and origins of design thinking in the first place. I will continue describing it

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Devlin, James Francis. "Single competitive markets and competitive advantage in retail financial services." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320024.

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Malmström, Malin. "Acquiring competence to create and sustain competitive advantages : a study of four small high technology firms." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Industriell Ekonomi, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-18319.

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The research questions addressed in this licentiate thesis are; How can small firms acquire competence? What factors can be identified as important for understanding how competence is acquired in small firms? Why are these factors important? Three factor groups are included in building a preliminary model of competence acquisition; the entrepreneur, the business concept, and the competence base which are identified in the literature as affecting competence acquisition. The surrounding environment is seen as a platform for the acquisition of competence. Three different modes of competence acqui

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Malmström, Malin. "Acquiring competence to create and sustain competitive advantages : a study of four small high technology firms /." Luleå : Luleå University of Technology, 2002. http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1757/2002/28.

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Kuan, Chan Hong. "Management of information technology for competitive advantage." Thesis, University of Macau, 1996. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636729.

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Magnusson, Jonas, and Johan Nilsson. "Designing Innovation of Meanings - A Competitive Advantage." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, ESOL (Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organization, Leadership), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15967.

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Design is a resource that could be better utilized by companies in order to create growth and sustainable innovation in the future. Numerous scholars have therefore stressed the importance of forward-looking executives and designers in today’s organizations that realize the importance of design as a differentiator. This research intends to illustrate how innovation of meanings is a future competitive advantage and to show how companies can benefit from design as an innovation tool. New product meanings can be pushed upon the market through proposals, something that is being compared to the tra

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Dai, Zong. "IT infrastructure flexibility and sustainable competitive advantage." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631663.

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This thesis is a study of antecedent and consequent relationship between information technology infrastructure flexibility and competitive advantage in the organizational context, using a case study approach that combines quantitative and qualitative methods. Four American companies were selected for the case study. The companies' IT infrastructures development and implementation of enterprise systems were examined at the firm-level. This study makes three significant contributions. First, it is the first case study of relationship between IT infrastructure flexibility and corporate performanc

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