The global outsourcing industry, including the Human Resources (HR) Systems outsourcing industry is growing at a phenomenal rate. The proponents of the resource-based view (RBV) have long argued that a firm gains sustainable competitive advantage from those resources and capabilities it controls and which are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable, and not substitutable. The RBV also indicates th...

This research paper provides an initial exploration of the factors influencing whether lower tier suppliers gain a competitive advantage through their implementation of Lean manufacturing, and highlights the implications for the aerospace industry and for the SMEs. The research findings indicated that the SMEs regarded Lean as a necessity to meet the growing demands of their customers and to re...

This study examines the impact of innovation at strategy level on process and system levels, which are considered to be forms function-level innovation, based implantation approach. The also reveals effect sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) young firms in Vietnam. research used primary data from a survey 289 firms’ leaders PLS-SEM using SmartPLS software was employed assess ability measure...