The development of sustainable competitive advantage has long been the “holy grail” of western management. However, evidence presented in this paper shows that at least one of the world’s leading companies has sought to achieve advantage by leverage knowledge and skill within its complete supply chain. The company involves is Toyota of Japan. A description of the benefits involved and the story...

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...

While information technology (IT) serves as a new source of sustainable competitive advantage for firms, it also induces hyperturbulent environments (or hyperturbulence) that erode that sustainable competitive advantage. In this paper, we posit that these contradictions might be due to cross-level nonlinear causality between firm-level IT-based strategic actions and collective-level IT-induced ...

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 goals of most of the organisations are achieving their sustainable competitive advantage (CA) challenges. One of the organizational initiatives is to invest appropriate information infrastructures. However, organisations may face difficulties to select effective information infrastructures in their respective situations to achieve CA from elusive information. This paper is to connect the In...