Purpose – The study aims to shed light on how to identify drivers of sustainable competitive advantage under a turbulent and uncertain environment, one of the most crucial challenges faced by resource-based strategists. Design/methodology/approach – This study introduces a VRIO-based framework to evaluate a firm’s internal activities, in which the fuzzy set and utilities functions are adopted t...

We deepen and extend resource-level theorizing about sustainable competitive advantage by developing a formal model of resource development in competitive markets. Our model incorporates three important barriers to imitation: time compression diseconomies, causal ambiguity and the magnitude of ...xed investments. Time compression diseconomies are derived from a micro-model of resource developme...

In a rapidly changing business environment, the entrepreneurship of top management is essential for survival and sustainable development enterprise. Building on view strategic choice theory, this study identifies relationship between entrepreneurship, market-oriented culture, work engagement. Data were collected from 493 employees regularly working in small medium-sized firms South Korea. The r...

  Supplier selection is one of the critical activities for firms to gain competitive advantage and achieve the objectives of the whole supply chain. In this paper based on a DEA-TOPSIS method for MADM problems a flexible strategy for supplier selection is introduced

This paper reports how three UK “old economy” manufacturers are adapting their operations to meet the challenge of the “new economy”, in which it is claimed that dotcoms can deliver virtual products to cybercustomers at the speed of light. Successful manufacturing is not only about producing better goods than competitors but also about delivering a product/service package that solves customers’...

As the field of employee branding has begun to unfold, more and more executives have become interested in how this process can help them achieve a competitive advantage for their organizations. This article explains how employee branding works and how it can be utilized to position the organization in the minds of customers, employees, and other stakeholders. A contextual analysis of its use as...

This paper shows how idiosyncratic resources can be the basis of sustained profitability and persistent heterogeneity under competitive conditions: Generic inputs purchased in the market become idiosyncratic resources by investments in customization. Analytically, we show how heterogeneous firms co-exist in equilibrium. Computationally, we show that sustainable profits can emerge without “monop...

Abstract The purpose of this article is to analyze how digitalization can impact the level competitiveness those organizations that implement a strategy and define current situation in Romania terms at international main associated influencing factors. research covers, first all, critical analysis scientific literature on topic. In second part paper, we used econometric analysis, statistical da...