Hypercompetition & Fiscal Attractiveness

2 Supply Chain Management and Hypercompetition

Firms nowadays face significant challenges in their operating environments, which have been characterised in two different ways. From a strategic management perspective these environments are in a state of hypercompetition while from a logistics or supply chain perspective these environments require market responsiveness predicated upon agile supply chains. However, firms must also rely on many...

On the hypercompetition numbers of hypergraphs

The competition hypergraph CH(D) of a digraph D is the hypergraph such that the vertex set is the same as D and e ⊆ V (D) is a hyperedge if and only if e contains at least 2 vertices and e coincides with the in-neighborhood of some vertex v in the digraph D. Any hypergraph H with sufficiently many isolated vertices is the competition hypergraph of an acyclic digraph. The hypercompetition number...

Corporate Responsibility and Hypercompetition. The IKEA Case

The rapid changes caused by growing complexity, accelerating technological innovation and globalisation, have driven companies to play a precise economicsocial role. Hypercompetition implies a substantial change in a company’s strategic objectives: every advantage gained over the rivals is rapidly imitated and surpassed. Hypercompetition needs from the company the ability to control simultaneou...

Strategic Planning, Hypercompetition, and Knowledge Management

Collaborating to compete: the role of cultural intermediaries in hypercompetition

This article explores the role that cultural intermediaries, defined primarily as radio DJs and journalists, play in the lives of three unsigned UK urban music artists. Using semi-structured interviews, textual analysis of social media usage, and observation notes, as well as auto-ethnographic examination of the author's own career as a musician over a four-year period between 2010-13, it is su...