This paper introduces the concept of strategic advantage and distinguishes it from competitive advantage. This concept helps to explain the full nature of sustainable competitive advantage through uncovering the dynamics of resource-based strategy. A new classification of resources emerges, demonstrating that rents are more relevant than profits in the analysis of sustainable competitive advant...

The New South Wales club gaming industry has existed for forty years since the introduction of slot machines in 1956 and has witnessed the impact of changing legal, competitive, social, economic, and technological factors on its competitiveness. Using Michael Porter's framework of competitive forces (1980), this paper analyzes the industry's life cycle in terms of entry barriers, industry rival...

nowadays with high competition in area of business, companies have to use different strategies in order to face and control this competition. without doubt not only use of these strategies influences on packaging but also this issue affect on companies’ performance. hence, aim of this research is to study differentiation strategy of porter as a competitive strategy on organizational performance...

Understanding positioning is a central concern for strategy. We offer a rich, but tractable, formalization of competitive positioning that is explicit about how the success of firms’ policy choices in the face of competition is impacted by the multiple attributes along which firms can create value for consumers. On the supply side, our theory incorporates multiple organizational design choices;...

The focus of this study is on the use of organizational competencies and backcasting in competitive analysis to improve the understanding of the strategic directions and actions of a firm that may be a competitor or a collaborator. Intended for use as a competitive weapon, this technique is formulated to assess the distinct organizational competencies a firm is exploiting. This we advocate in o...

We present MI-CRF, a conditional random field (CRF) model for multiple instance learning (MIL). MI-CRF models bags as nodes in a CRF with instances as their states. It combines discriminative unary instance classifiers and pairwise dissimilarity measures. We show that both forces improve the classification performance. Unlike other approaches, MI-CRF considers all bags jointly during training a...

We question the strategic potential of EMPs to bring a competitive advantage to their users: their nature and the main differentiating factors that progressively appear over time. Based on three case studies in the retail, automotive and MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Order) industries, conducted from 2002-2007, we more thoroughly describe where buyers and suppliers perceive strategic advantages ...

Ian D. Rozdilsky and Lewi Stone The Porter Super-Center for Ecological and Environmental Studies and Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Empirical observations often indicate that complexity enhances stability, while most theoretical studies, such as May's (1972) classic paper, point...