This paper investigates theoretical micro-foundations of core competencies in the organization that pursues sustainable competitive advantage. It advocates that there is a lack of literature perspectives which can explain the sources of core competencies of the firm. This research raises questions on: What are the main sources of creation and sustenance of core competencies? What are the abilit...

In the age of information technology and internet, business processes in many organizations have evolved into a series of knowledge exchanging activities. This is especially the case of multi-national corporations, which have e-business activities spread across multiple locations world-wide. Under these circumstances, for any multi-national corporation, comprehending and responding strategicall...

The cluster has shown its powerful competitive advantages in global competition. However, as amounts of industrial clusters have displayed their competence, some have lost their competitive advantages in global competition. It is meaningful for clusters’ development to cultivate their sustainable competence. This paper analyzes the sources of cluster competence. According this paper, the import...

The roll-out of the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) is in fact driving this type of transition towards a time where environmental friendly practices are no longer be an optional business practice, but rather a competitive necessity for survival. In the process of evaluating the environmental consideration, companies need to shift its paradigm from the conventional departmental t...

in the past years, a lot of studies have been conducted with regard to the organizational entrepreneurial orientation area. the overall results of these research projects helped organizational entrepreneurs discover the importance of some aspects, such as risk-taking, innovativeness and proactiveness. these aspects influence capabilities like learning and innovativeness and quality and, finally...

Rural Development is a priority in Europe and it is supported by specific, financial programmes. At the same time, sustainability is the key word for the European Union to construct programmes and policies for all human activities. However, measuring sustainability of rural areas is not easy, due to their particular features. The improvement of knowledge on sustainability in rural areas is impo...

The concept of organizational capability has been developed basically in the field of strategic management. Organizational capabilities are identified as one major source for the generation and development of sustainable competitive advantage). Recently the issue of changeability and flexibility of organizational capabilities is coming to the fore. Referring to the observation that markets and ...

This paper identifies main value propositions of leveraging private cloud computing and reviews current performance of implementing cloud computing technology in financial industry. The following aspects have been reviewed by this paper, namely (1) discerning cloud computing-enabled innovations, (2) identifying three value propositions of using cloud computing, (3) reviewing current performance...

The New Organizational Knowledge for the 21st Century enterprise is imagined by some to reside principally in networked teams of information-sharing human experts. The firm’s human resources are judged in this environment to be its only sustainable competitive advantage. Z speculate that, to the contrary the New Organizational Knowledge will be increasingly more system based compared to person ...

the question that most of management, organization and strategy scholars would like to find some answer for it is: “why some firms outperform the others?” in various time periods, scholars have considered to different factors for answering that question. some scholars in industry structure view (porter, 1985), had highlighted the environmental and out of organization factors and industry type i...