Olive Oil intangibility for competitive advantage

Theories for competitive advantage

Introduction Competitive advantage is obtained when an organisation develops or acquires a set of attributes (or executes actions) that allow it to outperform its competitors. The development of theories that help explain competitive advantage has occupied the attention of the management community for the better part of half a century. This chapter aims to provide an overview of the key theorie...

Comparative Advantage and Competitive Advantage:

There is a considerable amount of controversy about the model(s) of comparative advantage and its applicability to international business, in particular as a guide to the success of nations and/or firms in international markets. This perception (or understanding) of inapplicability of the model(s) of comparative advantage has lead international business experts to develop new models, or what ma...

Creating Opportunities for Competitive Advantage

In the last edition of TMI, we explored the elements, which comprise the financial supply chain. We looked in some detail at the order-to-cash (receivables) and purchaseto-pay (payables) processes and how these can be optimised to create internal efficiencies, reducing the number of cash days for a company and therefore working capital requirements. The benefits of automating internal processes...

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Investigating the Impact of Human Resource Management Strategies on Competitive Advantage (National Iranian Oil Company)

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of human resource management strategies on competitive advantage. In terms of applied purpose, the research was a correlational survey. The statistical population of the study was 1500 employees of the National Iranian Oil Company. 306 people were selected based on Cochran's formula as a statistical sample by simple random sampling met...