Gaining advantage by winning contests

Winning New Customers: the Case for Gaining Competitive Advantage through Operational Efficiency

Does Blue Uniform Color Enhance Winning Probability in Judo Contests?

The color of an athlete's uniform may have an effect on psychological functioning and consequently bias the chances of winning contests in sport competition. Several studies reported a winning bias for judo athletes wearing a blue outfit relative to those wearing a white outfit. However, we argue there is no winning bias and that previous studies were confounded and based on small and specific ...

No effect of blue on winning contests in judo.

A study by Rowe et al. reported a winning bias for judo athletes wearing a blue outfit relative to those wearing a white one during the 2004 Olympics. It was suggested that blue is associated with a higher likelihood of winning through differential effects of colour on opponent visibility and/or an intimidating effect on the opponent. However, we argue that there is no colour effect on winning ...

The CSFs, Quality Governance, BPR Performance and Gaining Competitive Advantage

Business process reengineering (BPR) is a popular management approach, which enables organizations to conduct substantial business and technological improvements. Successful implementation of BPR can assist organizations to change their old-fashioned practices into innovative processes through reorganizing and eliminating some processes and/or finding innovative ways to conduct business activit...

Gaining Advantage: How Videogame Players Define and Negotiate Cheating

This paper addresses players’ uses of supplemental items during gameplay, how they define what is and is not “cheating” in reference to these items, and then, what actions they ultimately take in accordance with their beliefs and reasoning. To do that, an analysis of the results of in-depth interviews with 24 game players and an open-ended survey of an additional 50 players is conducted to dete...