The authors propose a new model of trade between developing and advanced economies to capture the effects of important asymmetries in the organizations of their industries. This model demonstrates how the industrial structure of a developing economy can evolve to produce what the authors call “implicit mercantilism.” Free entry plus domestic oligopoly in a developing economy, when combined with...

The research suggests that Chinese companies do not subscribe to ‘western’ strategy theory. As they rapidly internationalise through massive Foreign Direct Investment, Chinese companies are developing new perspectives on achieving competitiveness. A comparison of the Resource-Based View of strategy (RBV) constructs from western literature with identified (indigent) Chinese business strategies f...

The challenges that business face in sustaining competitive advantage in the corporate world have become a major concern. Businesses are adopting cutting-edge technologies and best practices to cope with rapid, global changes. Various business functions are being reengineered for this purpose. Accounting functions play an important role in helping businesses to maintain competitive advantage. H...

In today’s competitive world employees with engagement can interact with their job and have desirable job performance. Since improvement of employees’ job performance is the key of efficiency in all levels of organization, investigation of variables leading to the improvement of job performance is of great importance. Thus the purpose of the present research is to analyze the effect of employee...

in today’s very competitive world gaining competitive advantage is bound to arranging products and services of companies and businesses in accordance with customers’ needs. for this purpose, gaining reputation in e-service can be quite helpful. thus the goal of the present research is studying the effect of e-banking service quality on bank reputation. so a coherent collection of structures wer...

Daily deals are very popular in today’s e-commerce. In this work, we study the problem of mechanism design for a daily deal website to maximize its revenue and obtain the following results. (1) For the Bayesian setting, we first design a revenue-optimal incentive-compatible (IC) mechanism with pseudo-polynomial time complexity. Considering the high computational complexity of the mechanism, we ...

Human-agent negotiation is a social task that provides a multifaceted proving ground for artificial intelligence systems that aim to interact with humans in a social context. Designing agents that are capable of negotiating with humans provides threefold benefit. First, it allows information regarding human behavior to be gleaned in an efficient and repeatable context through the use of program...

Kohonen neural nets are some kind of competitive nets. The most commonly known variants are the Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) and the Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ). The former model uses an unsupervized learning, the latter is an e cient classi er. This paper tries to give, in simple words, a clear idea about the basis of competitive neural nets and competitive learning emphasizing on the SO...

Previous studies rarely examined the relationship between intellectual capital and competitive advantage. Most studies underestimate the shift towards knowledge based economy where, capital and work are no longer the differentiating and generating factors of sustainable competitive advantage. Relatively, little is known in the literature about how intellectual capital affects competitive advant...

Business analytics (BA) has become increasingly important for companies to gain valuable insights from big data and ultimately competitive advantage. However, little empirical evidence exists regarding the mechanisms through which BA impacts on competitive advantage. In light of this paucity, this paper aims to advance our understanding of the impact of BA on competitive advantage. First, this ...