Society today has great expectations on small firms’ contribution to society as a whole. To be able to contribute small firms have to be competitive. Competitive advantage based on competence is not as easily copied by competitors, and, hence, more sustainable. Even though competence can be complicated to imitate, continual environmental changes mean that competence is not static and will not p...

according to the management specialists, the survival and success of the modern organizations rely on the creation, preservation and continuity of the competitive advantages. the aim of this research is to investigate the effect of organizational spirituality, a variable in scope of intangible assets, on sustainable competitive advantage. the effect of organizational spirituality on human resou...

Increasingly, with rapid wealth growth of emerging global economies, the basis of competitive advantage is changing from internal capacities to network capabilities. What matters is not a company ownership of hard assets but rather its ability to fully utilize them to capture the worldwide business opportunities. In this highly competitive global environment, outsourcing is approached not as a ...

Purpose In the new digital age, enterprises are facing an increasing global competition. this paper, we first examine how Information Technology (IT) can play important role in giving significant competitive advantage modern enterprises. The business value of IT is examined, as well limitations and trade-offs that its applicability faces. Next, present basic principles for a successful strategy...

Does the need for sustainable development hinder businesses’ ability to create value? Is firm’s competitiveness negatively affected by considering that need? After quickly reviewing the main literature contributions on the relationship between business and society, and drawing from resource-based view of the firm and sustainable development literature, this paper presents a proposal for a dynam...

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. So, does information technology (IT) outsourcing strip companies of any competitive advantage that is attributed to IT? It has been said that information s...

This study aims to empirically test the relationships among the adoption of sustainability practices, business performance and competitive advantage in Caribbean manufacturing firms. Seven dimensions of sustainable manufacturing practices are conceptualized and tested against measures of business performance and competitive advantage. Three hypothesized relationships are tested using the partia...